In Loving Memory
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson · 1902 — 1994
The first commandment is not a theological claim about God’s existence but a declaration of covenantal identity grounded in the historical act of liberation from Egypt.
Idolatry is prohibited not merely as worship of false gods but as the foundational category error of treating the infinite as finite and the uncreated as created.
Taking God’s name in vain encompasses not only false oaths but any invocation of divine authority that corrupts the covenantal relationship between speech, truth, and the sacred.
The Sabbath is not primarily a rest from labor but a weekly declaration that creation belongs to God, not to the economic systems that otherwise govern every hour.
Honoring parents is the bridge commandment between the divine and human tablets — the first obligation directed toward persons, and the one that most directly mirrors the covenantal obligation to God.
The prohibition on murder is absolute and admits no utilitarian exception — it is the foundational recognition that human life, as bearing the divine image, cannot be weighed against competing interests.
The prohibition is triggered by the woman’s marital status, not the man’s, and its severity rests on covenantal order and lineage integrity — not property violation.
The commandment prohibits kidnapping, not theft of property, and the entire halakhic severity hierarchy descends from that apex by proximity to the negation of personhood.
False witness is the procedural keystone of the second tablet: the mechanism by which coveting becomes theft with legal cover, and perjury causing capital conviction is murder by another instrument.
Lo tachmod prohibits not the unbidden occurrence of desire but its intentional cultivation toward acquisition — the car is the donkey, and the line is crossed when desire generates steps.
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"Born on April 18, 1902, in Nikolaev, Russia, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson ascended to the leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch in 1951. Over 44 years, he transformed a decimated post-Holocaust community into a global movement. He did not see numbers — he saw souls."
“Think good, and it will be good.”
“A little light dispels a great deal of darkness.”
“Every person is a whole world.”
He sent thousands of emissaries to every corner of the earth — not with armies, but with light. His ultimate message was urgent: the Geulah is near. Add one more act of goodness. Today.
"On the 3rd of Tammuz, 5754 — June 12, 1994 — the Rebbe passed from this world. His Ohel in Queens, New York remains a place of pilgrimage for hundreds of thousands who still seek his counsel."
May his memory be a blessing · יהי זכרו ברוך
For years, the Rebbe stood for hours each Sunday distributing a single dollar bill to each person who came — thousands of people, one by one. The dollar was not the point. The act was the point: a personal, face-to-face transmission of value, given with intention, received with dignity, meant to inspire the recipient to give in turn.
Bitcoin Yarmulkas carries that spirit forward. Each satoshi sent is not merely a donation — it is an act. A Jew choosing honest money, recorded transparently on an immutable ledger, given to strengthen a community institution. The Rebbe drew lines around the block. We draw lines on a blockchain. The intention is the same: to move value with meaning, one transaction at a time.
Torah does not only teach us how life should be lived. It teaches us why life so often is not.
Every broken system, every betrayed trust, every child caught between adults who forgot what they owe G‑d and each other — Torah saw it coming. It named it. It traced it to its root.
Invisible Cousin is a scientific manuscript proposing that standard detection methods systematically undercount a specific class of relative in population studies — with implications for evolutionary biology, astrobiology, and the search for life. It is pre-registered at OSF, stress-tested by Bridget, and offered as evidence that Torah’s diagnostic precision extends to the natural world.
Our rabbi at Chabad of Palisades / Tenafly: Moshiach brings four things.
I
“Nation shall not lift sword against nation.” ↓ Bitcoin makes war harder to finance. See the Bridget verdict →
II
“The earth shall be full of the knowledge of G‑d as the waters cover the sea. — Isaiah 11:9” Bitcoin is not the water — it is part of the sea-bed. It cannot create da’at Hashem, but it can weaken the chokepoints that gatekeepers have historically used to throttle Torah, truth, and communal life. See the Bridget verdict →
III
“Every Jewish soul, from every corner of the earth, returning in joy.” Bitcoin is not the answer — but for a narrow set of Jews in specific conditions, it removes one intermediary that would otherwise stand between them and home. See the Bridget verdict →
IV
“The purpose of all of history, finally revealed.” Bitcoin cannot repent, restore, or choose justice. It can constrain — but renewal requires a moral agent. See the Bridget verdict →
Leviticus 19:36 — You shall have just balances, just weights.
After nine rounds of contested debate, Bridget’s verdict on Leviticus 19:36 and Bitcoin turns on a single reframing: the violation, where it occurs, is not in Bitcoin. It is around Bitcoin — in the opacity of exchanges, the undisclosed spreads, the custody gaps.
The protocol’s fixed issuance is auditable and immune to debasement — the architectural layer aligns with what the Sages feared most. But most users never reach the protocol. They reach intermediaries, where opacity returns. The halachic question is no longer “Is Bitcoin permissible?” — it is “Are Bitcoin’s commercial infrastructure actors meeting the Sages’ standard?” That question is prosecutable.
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| # | Date | Shul | Yarmulkas | Sats | TX ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 0 | 0 | |||
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In Loving Memory & Honor
In Loving Memory — Father
"May his neshamah have an aliyah."
יְהִי זִכְרוֹ בָּרוּךְ
Memorial pageIn Honor — Mother
"May she be blessed with long life and joy."
תִּזְכֶּה לְאַרִיכוּת יָמִים וְשָׁנִים טוֹבוֹת
Tribute pageIn Loving Memory — Kristine
"Her light touched this world deeply. Forever in our hearts."
תְּהֵא נִשְׁמָתָהּ צְרוּרָה בִּצְרוֹר הַחַיִּים
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