Sunday
Oct272019
“I Was Not Created...”
October 27, 2019מב. תרגום מקטעים משיחות ליל שמח”ת קודם הקפות תשנ”ב (2) 42. Simchas Torah, Tishrei 23, 5752 – September 30, 1991 (2)
Entries in #1186 (13)
Sunday
Oct272019
Achdus Directly Impacts Ending Galus
An answer to an organization that wanted to do something which could have caused some machlokes:
Sunday
Oct272019
The "Kim Li" Concept
A collection of halachos regarding the Halachic principle of “Kim Li” — choosing to follow a dissenting Halachic opinion in certain cases, from AskTheRav.com & Halacha2Go.com.
Sunday
Oct272019
Bitachon vs. Reality
Am I setting myself up for disaster by having too much Emunah and Bitachon? How will I be able to face reality when it really hits?
Sunday
Oct272019
The Counter Revolution
“The Iron Curtain” was crumbling in 1991, but one fine September day, the Soviet Premier was taken hostage and tanks rumbled into Red Square. It looked like the curtain was descending once more… The world was petrified, but the Prophet of the Generation didn’t understand why…
Sunday
Oct272019
Having Two Right Hands...
בו יסופר גודל הבטחון שהיה לדוד והרבה תהלות להש”י שקיים לנו מה שהבטיח אותנו This psalm relates the great bitachon King Dovid had in Hashem, and many praises to Hashem for fulfilling what He promised to us
Sunday
Oct272019
When The Rebbe Gave Out Quarters…
We all know that the Rebbe handed out dimes and dollars for Tzedaka, but did you know that one time the Rebbe pulled out three quarters from his pocket and gave them to a young girl?
Sunday
Oct272019
How The Slavita Sefer Torah Got to the Rebbe
Rabbi Sholom Ber Avtzon retells the story of “the Rebbe’s Sefer Torah”
Sunday
Oct272019
High Alert
In today’s world, the concept of work hours versus leisure hours has become blurred. It is common today for professionals to work through lunch and dinnertime. With the help of internet, texting, laptops and cell phones, one can theoretically work from anywhere, round the clock.
Sunday
Oct272019
LOOKING FOR LIGHT
Late one night, local villagers found Hershele, bent over in a dark corner under a streetlight, intensely looking for something…
Sunday
Oct272019
What If You Stopped Thinking “What If?”
Whenever we go through a slump — whether it is from boredom, failure, or depression — we’re forgetting how to live a meaningful life. A trap we fall into is thinking that someone or something outside of ourselves can give our lives meaning.
Sunday
Oct272019
TEFILLAS GESHEM OF THE TZADDIK
Our story took place two hundred years ago in the city of Teveria in northern Eretz Yisrael. In those days, the Jewish settlement there began to flourish. At first, Jews from Sefardic countries moved there. They slowly began to breathe new Jewish life where before there was only a spiritual wasteland.
Sunday
Oct272019
LOSE THE STUPID SMARTPHONE!
A yungerman, a visitor it seemed (from the style of his beard), had his smartphone out to capture a moment he wished to preserve. The bachurim saved him from his phone and swept him up in the revelry. * I too had my smartphone out, broadcasting live the only sign of Jewish life literally for thousands of miles to the west and hundreds to the east…