Beis Moshiach presents the maamer the Rebbe MH”M delivered on Yud Shvat 5716, in accordance with the custom established by the Rebbe to review each year a section of the Rebbe Rayatz’s maamer Basi L’Gani of 5710. • This year we focus on the sixth section of the profound and foundational Chassidic discourse.
A unique letter from the Rebbe to the American Jewish Distribution Committee asking for support for the Amshinov Yeshiva in Jerusalem and attesting to the character of the Amshinov Rebbe, Rabbi Yerachmiel Yehuda Meir Kalisch
R’ Yosef Taieb, as a child, barely knew anything about Judaism. Today, he is the rav of two large communities, a shliach, a rosh yeshiva and an Av Beis Din. * What is the reason for the Jewish French Revolution since the times of the Alter Rebbe? What changed in France in recent years that did not exist during the early, golden years
This Shabbos (Parshas Shmos) falls out between two very special dates: 20 Teves – the Yahrtzait of the Rambam, and 24 Teves, the Yahrtzait of the Alter Rebbe.
In a wide-ranging campaign which includes numerous volunteers, the Rebbe’s shluchim at Ohr Shneur in Aubervilliers near Paris are working on transferring Jewish children from public school to Jewish schools. * R’ Eliezer Nisselevich, one of the directors of Ohr Shneur and the initiator of this campaign, talks about the difficulties and successes and has moving stories to share.
At the age when bachurim today are just entering beis midrash, the Chassid, R’ Henoch Rappaport, was sent to serve as a rosh yeshiva. * He was caught after a year, sent to a protracted exile in Siberia, survived, and then made aliya. * To commemorate the day of his passing on 25 Teves
Moshe killed an Egyptian taskmaster, fled the wrath of Pharaoh and ended up in Midyan, where he saved the daughters of Yisro from some shepherds who harassed them.
The worst and most destructive temperament to Bitachon is fear. One who is fearful of what the future holds is clearly not practicing Bitachon in Hashem. When exercising trust and reliance in Hashem, one’s entire attention is focused on Hashem’s omnipotence, to the exclusion of any other existence, and when doing so there is no existing factor that can cause fear.
It was in the winter of 5763 when R’ Avrohom Hershkop of Kiryat Malachi and a group of Chabad Chassidim, as well as a distinguished delegation from the Kiryat Malachi municipality led by the mayor, Lior Katzav, decided to visit the gravesites of the Rebbeim in Ukraine and Russia. They excitedly made their preparations for the trip, both material and spiritual preparations, as a Chassid does.
R’ Shlomo, the rosh yeshiva, paced his room. He was wracking his brains, trying to find a solution to a serious problem.
January 22, 2016