Parents and Educators must realize that staying in a Yeshiva environment is the only vaccine that can keep our kids safe from diseases far worse than smallpox or measles…Rabbi Daniel Green •
In the famous ma’amar of Ve’ata Tetzave 5741, the Rebbe explains that there are generally two types of leaders of the generation.
It’s fine that people speak out on controversial topics, that’s what press is for. What bothered me about this particular piece was that the rabbi, who is a shliach of the Rebbe, signed off on the piece as a Chabad rabbi.
Radiation and radioactive materials have been used in medical procedures for decades. Especially in the case of a brain tumor, radiation has the obvious advantage of eliminating the need to open the patient’s skull to operate on his brain —if it would work. But in the early years of the use of radiation to destroy tumors, treatments were often dangerous and the results unsatisfactory.
Recently, marine biologists have made an exciting discovery: a rock-eating worm found only in one river in the entire world. The worm, which lives in a small section of the Abatan River in the Philippines, is known to the local population as “antingaw,” and nursing mothers eat it to increase their milk supply.
The unique relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Robert (Bob) Abrams — he, a longtime politician and New York’s Attorney General for 14 years, and she, a successful attorney — with the Rebbe is illustrated in these short photographic anecdotes:
Fearless yet stands in trepidation before G-d.
22 Short Stories of Three Generations of Rebbeim, as told by R’ Zalman Leib Estulin a’h
22 Short Stories of Three Generations of Rebbeim, as told by R’ Zalman Leib Estulin a’h
We all have secrets — the question is what you think your deepest secret looks like? Is it dark and shameful , or is it something bright and beautiful?
A deeply religious Jew, who was not a member of the Chassidic community, was walking through the streets of Yerushalayim, gripped by a frenzied state of fear and trembling, as befits the month of Elul… Right past him, a Chassid walked by with a happy and cheerful expression on his face. “Business as usual”…
Gideon (a pseudonym) walked briskly down the street in Crown Heights. He was on his way to see the rav of the community, Rabbi Zalman Shimon Dworkin (d. 1985).
September 5, 2019