Chapter 16 of Rabbi Shloma Majeski’s Likkutei Mekoros, Volume 2, responds to the questions: Where does the Rebbe explain why he refers to the Pervious Rebbe when he actually means himself? Where does the Rebbe state that he and the Previous Rebbe are one and the same? (Underlined text is the compiler’s emphasis).
They aren’t just mohalim; they’re also shluchim, roving ambassadors who bring Torah and mitzvos together with their responsibilities at a bris mila. One of them is expert mohel Rabbi Gideon Kaye, who tells for the first time about the less-known aspects to the work of circumcision. Behold, I send an angel of the covenant before you…
Many people had a teacher who made a big impact on them. The teacher or mashgiach who directed them with love, enthusiasm, or devotion, and left a deep impression that lasts a lifetime. * As the new schoolyear begins, Beis Moshiach asked people to tell about a person in chinuch who made an indelible impression on them
R’ Lipa Klein – General Secretary of Yeshivas Ohr Simcha: My mechanech: R’ Yisroel Neveler (Levin)
R’ Zalman Herzel, mashpia and author: My mechanech: R’ Yosef Abrams
R’ Dovid Glazer, writer and lecturer, Nachlas Har Chabad: My mechanech: R’ Shneur Zalman Gafni, Rosh Yeshiva
R’ Chaim Steiner, Deputy Mayor of Kiryat Malachi: My mechanech: the mashpia, R’ Elimelech Zweibel
R’ Aviram Magor: My mechanech: R’ YY Wilschansky, Rosh Yeshiva
R’ Oholiav Abutbul, Director of Beis Moshiach in Eretz Yisroel: My mechanech: R’ Moshe Assoulin
This week’s parsha contains the harshest threats of pain and suffering for the Jewish people if they fail to follow G-d’s commandments. This lengthy section is called the Tochecha (rebuke).
For decades now, thousands of talmidim have spent their K’vutza year with the Rebbe. Few know that the pioneer of the first K’vutza in 5722 was Rabbi Aharon Halperin of Kfar Chabad who the Rebbe referred to as, “in charge of the K’vutza.” He spent six months in a row with the Rebbe! * Rabbi Aharon Halperin recently passed away, and in this brief bio we have incorporated some of his first-person accounts about the importance in going, as well as memories of rare kiruvim he had from the Rebbe
This Shabbos is Chai Elul, the birthday of the holy Baal Shem Tov in 5458 (1698), the date on which his holy master (Achiya HaShiloni) was revealed to him in 5484 (1724), and the date on which the Baal Shem Tov was revealed [as a Rebbe] in 5494 (1734). It is also the birthday of the Alter Rebbe in 5505 (1745).
The doctors said that she would give birth to a boy. The Rebbe said in a dream – a girl. The doctors declared that the baby would have Down Syndrome. In a dream, the Rebbe rejected this out of hand… This is the moving story of Mrs. Etti Bitton from Tzfas, who experienced a period of tremendous tension due to the doctors’ warnings until she merited to have a miraculous dream, which was fulfilled in every detail
September 6, 2017