G-d instructed Moshe to wage war against Midian for causing the Jewish people to sin, causing them much grief. As the last major campaign before he was to pass, G-d instructed Moshe to take revenge on the Midianites, and only then pass on.
Every year, dozens of Admurim visit cities and countries far from their headquarters. They need logistical and spiritual assistance, which they get from the Rebbe’s shluchim. These are opportunities for direct encounters between Admurim and the work of the shluchim in preparing the world to greet Moshiach. * Beis Moshiach set out on an intercontinental journey to cover this phenomenon. We heard what goes on behind the scenes, about the impressions made on these Admurim, about private audiences with the Rebbe that they had, and about their high regard for the shluchim
This Shabbos, Matos-Massei, is Shabbos Mevarchim Chodesh Menachem Av. It is critical, especially as we approach the Nine Days, that we farbreng about the Avoda that needs to be done now to bring the Geula and turn the month of Menachem Av into happy and joyous days forever.
From Chapter Fifteen of Rabbi Shloma Majeski’s Likkutei Mekoros, Volume 2 (Underlined text is the compiler’s emphasis
How can we explain the situation today when we don’t see the Rebbe (Rebbe is not something you can explain or understand; a Lubavitcher doesn’t have to understand everything). * Why should we write to the Rebbe when he knows everything? (There is also the fact that from our perspective there is “tzimtzum k’peshuto” and this is how the Rebbe wants it; it’s part of being a Chassid). * Is it proper to write to the Rebbe using volumes of Igros Kodesh? (This has a precedent in that Chassidim in Russia inserted letters into sifrei Chassidus). * When will the Rebbe come back? (I think I can say when this will happen …). * The mashpia, Rabbi Zushe Posner, one of the Rebbe’s shluchim in Eretz Yisroel, speaks about hiskashrus to the Rebbe (nowadays), writing to the Rebbe as an integral part of hiskashrus, and about how we Chassidim relate to this state of concealment in the moments before the hisgalus.
When Moshiach will come to redeem us, all the Jews of the world will come out to greet him, and every Jew will look for a Torah scroll with which to greet Moshiach. However, since there are clearly more Jews than Torah scrolls, what will those Jews do who don’t have Torah scrolls? Your Forefathers will come to take you, and they will bring you as living Torah scrolls to greet Moshiach Tzidkeinu. Thus, if you are aware that you will be used as living Torah scrolls, you obviously know how you should learn Torah, daven, and have true Yiras Shamayim
When one is physically stuck in a place, somewhere he should not be, and not moving forward, then – notwithstanding his great progress within that place, advancing within that space, that realm – he is still in Mitzrayim! * If you’re stuck in a rut, know that it is Mitzrayim, and it is necessary to leave Mitzrayim and journey onward, until you arrive at Yarden Yericho, an allusion to “morach va’da’in – he [Moshiach] smells and renders judgment.”
July 19, 2017