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Havdalah at a boys camp in Running Springs California. It is wonderful looking at the awe and excitement on their young faces. The boy reaching out with his hands on the far left towards the flame is Yossi Plotke four years before his time of Bar Mitzvah. Havdalah is performed at the conclusion of Shabbat as a commandment to separate the week from The Almighty's day of rest.

Chuppa, marriage ceremony. Here the family holding hands with the bride is circling the groom seven times. Seven is a holy number. Seven days of the week, seven days of creation, it also symbolizes the natural order of this world. Seven blessings are recited over wine both under the canopy and at shevra brochas, a celebratory meal each day for seven days after the wedding. Shevra brochas means 7 blessings. This wedding is in front of the Lubavitcher Rebbes office. Sometimes you can witness three weddings or more one after the other on these steps.

Reb Yoel Kahn. On shabbos the Lubavitcher Rebbe would give over deep chasidic discourse. There was no way to write them down. Reb Yoel would commit them to memory and then write them out word for word after Shabbos. He then would give them to the Rebbe for editing and they would be published. He is truly an extraordinary mind immersed deeply into the mystical learning of Torah. I heard that the only time his writing slacked was during a period of time he and his wife had no children. He was dealing with his sadness.