TALK OF ETERNAL LIFE ON 3 TAMMUZ

Prior to the Rebbe Rayatz’s histalkus in 5710, he emphasized the concept of chayim nitzchiim, eternal life. The Rebbe MH”M points out the profound significance of the topics a Rebbe discusses in his final sichos delivered in this world: they serve as instructions for how to proceed in the wake of his histalkus. * The following excerpt, which also speaks of eternal life, is from the last sicha the Rebbe has yet delivered on Gimmel Tammuz.

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ANTICIPATING THE ULTIMATE GIMMEL TAMMUZ CELEBRATION

Gimmel Tammuz is a day that says so much to each one of us. At the same time, Gimmel Tammuz contains within it much more than it says. It is a day that contains so many messages about so many different things. Still, the bottom line is that Gimmel Tammuz contains an identical message for all of us. * It is a day that represents clarity, vision, mission, a goal. A day that reminds us of who we are. But it is also a day of confusion. * The Rebbe teaches us how to integrate these seeming opposites in a special sicha about Menashe and Efraim.

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THE REBBE SEES AND KNOWS EVERYTHING

“When you connect to the Rebbe, to whom are you connecting? Not to the Rebbe’s lomdus, not to the Rebbe’s geonus, not to the Rebbe’s tzidkus, and not to the Rebbe’s ruach ha’kodesh, but to a Nasi Yisroel.” * A fascinating conversation with Rabbi Leibel Groner, the Rebbe’s personal secretary and director of Kupas Rabbeinu, covering a range of topics including how to maintain our hiskashrus in the here and now, and the need for a personal reckoning in preparation for Gimmel Tammuz.

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HOW TO MERIT THE REBBE’S HISGALUS

This Shabbos Parshas Korach is Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, the Shabbos before Gimmel Tammuz. The words “Gimmel Tammuz” bring out different emotions in many people, yet I feel that there is something that we all should be asking ourselves: how can we bring about the Hisgalus of the Rebbe?

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I WANT YOU TO WORK FOR ME

Originally from a Chassidic family in Bratislava, the young boy found himself in a Lithuanian yeshiva in England, and from there he went to the Chabad yeshiva in Montreal. * The directives and instructions he received from the Rebbe in his work of editing the Shulchan Aruch and translating the Siddur, and the open miracles during the process of translating the Machzor for Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur. The Rebbe told his mother how special her son is, even more than she knows… * Part 2 of 2.

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THE KORACH STORY TEACHES US WHAT IS A REBBE

Korach’s rebellion began with his gathering of 250 leaders and then proclaiming before them to Moshe and Aaron: “You have gone too far. All the people in the community are holy, and G-d is within them. Why are you setting yourselves above G-d’s congregation?”

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BUT IF HE IS KILLED…

From Chapter Fifteen of Rabbi Shloma Majeski’s Likkutei Mekoros, Volume 2.

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