How to Finish Chitas Before Midnight

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This is the same Chitas I have.

All Chitas owners want that my-Chitas-can’t-close-look. All Chitas sayers want to get sleep before midnight.  I have a lot of friends who do Chitas every day and some friends who do Chitas some days and everything in between. One thing they all have in common is a the challenge of being able to do everything within a reasonable hour.  Hopefully this post will help with that.

Consistency

Whatever you do, whatever level you are on it is important to do it every day. The goal here is routine. If you find there is something you make an option then take a break from it until you feel the stuff you are already doing is a part of you. 

What Happens When a Non-Lubavitcher Starts Learning Hayom Yom?

I won a book from AHTO, the new fancy blue Hayom Yom. I was soo happy because the book has the Hebrew with vowels  text of the Hayom Yom and a little something in English. When I went to New York to my shock and delight my holy but imperfect friend gave me some sefers. One of which was a big fancy blue new Hayom Yom. Perfect now I had a gift for my father who has recently started going to minyan once a week. (of course that to is all thanks  to my push)

When I presented my father with the present he was beaming. His smile was as big as can be. I explained to him how it works, you learn one page a day. He asked was it in English? I told him to open up and see.

My Chitas Saying Game Plan

Sometime during Tshrei I decided to take upon myself saying Chitas. That my readers is no easy task.  I asked myself;

How am I possibly going to remember to say tehilllim before it gets dark?

How am I going to have the will power to put the time needed aside to compile with my goal of saying chumush, tehillim, mincha, maariv, kiryat shma, tanya hayom yom, daily mitzvahs etc. In addition to the hour, give or take a few minutes it takes me to daven shacharis??

Thus I made for myself a game plan, I put reminders in my ipod to remind when to say certain things and I made steps, or a daily checklist.

Tshrei 5772 In Crown Heights

The Lubavitcher Rebbe's Children: Little Shluchim

This is a video about The Lubavitcher Rebbe's Children: Little Shluchim in Nikolayev, Russia. The video is super cute. Highly reccomend watching. 7and a half minutes of pure beauty. Truly good Jewish kids, and futare Jewish Teens

Oholei Torah Dinner Video 5771

Video, produced by Yankee Teitelbaum, was shown, to introduce Mr. Popack, the guest of honor and express his feelings towards Oholei Torah, and its menahel, Rabbi Rosenfeld.

Oholei Torah Dinner Video 5770

Last year, very nice video. I really like it.

Saving The Lubavticher Rebbe-Documentary

 If you understand Hebrew, this is a very nice one hour movie to watch.

It's Stuck in My Head

At first I didn't like it, now I love it, and now I can't get it out of my head. Watch and enjoy:

PS. I think the video is really well done, so good job 8th day

If I Were a Shliach...

This is hilarious. I love it. Never let the purim spirit die. I love purim. And I love this.

Tzivos Hashem

I WANT THIS SONG TO BE THE VIDEO ALL THE CAMPS USE IN THERE SLIDESHOWS THIS SUMMER

Mollys Story

I'm doing a series of posts on all the Machon Chana women video stories available on youtube. They are so inspirational. I really hope you enjoy these.This lady is a former NBC producer who tells how she got into Machon Chana

Yehudis's Story

I'm doing a series of posts on all the Machon Chana women video stories available on youtube. They are so inspirational. I really hope you enjoy these.

Chanies Story

I'm doing a series of posts on all the Machon Chana women video stories available on youtube. They are so inspirational. I really hope you enjoy these.
This is the first one of these inspirational videos, this lady was looking for the truth.

Elyse's Story

I'm doing a series of posts on all the Machon Chana women video stories available on youtube. They are so inspirational. I really hope you enjoy these.

I really like how she answers the question, "why did you want to be religious?" she says, "Its right and you know it" To hear the rest of her reason  watch the video!!

Elle's Story

So this is my first post of mine sense my midterms. BH THERE OVER!! Now I'm back to doing what I love, blogging :) I'm doing a series of posts on all the Machon Chana women video stories available on youtube. They are so inspirational. I really hope you enjoy these.

Maureens Story

I'm doing a series of posts on all the Machon Chana women video stories available on youtube. They are so inspirational. I really hope you enjoy these. This is the best one

Why I Was Late To Shul On Jan 1

This past Shabbos was the secular New Year. I was invited to a new year’s party Friday night, and went. The party was boring and the only reason I went was because after the party I was having two Jewish friends over and then the next day we were going to go to Shul.

It was all working perfectly. Sure that night my friends were nervous to be going to the Chabad Shul. Obviously Chabad has a Mechitza. In my town having a Mechitza is a big deal. The Mechitza was something my friends were both uncomfortable with, and started having second thoughts on the whole idea of going to Shul. Whatever I told them there would be good food, we’d arrive lateish, and everything would be fine. That was the end of the discussion. We continued our sleepover and went to bed.

Miriams Story

I'm doing a series of posts on all the Machon Chana women video stories available on youtube. They are so inspirational. I really hope you enjoy these. Haha Shes got the California accent! Love it!!! Anyway this lady has a really nice story.

COL is addicting

Do you log onto COL every time you get near a computer? Do you have to know what’s happening in Crown Heights, the random activities of Shluchim you’ve never met, stay up to date with the contest you have to vote for, keep tabs on the big donors, watch the live showers, oh and all the juicy gossip in between?