HOW BITACHON LEADS TO PROPER OBSERVANCE OF MITZVOS

Chassidus explains that all Mitzvos are the Ratzon-Will of Hashem1. As such, it is understood that Mitzvos don’t need to be logical. If they were manmade they would need to be logical, but since Mitzvos stem from a source completely beyond any sphere of understanding, Hashem’s Will, they transcend logic. Nonetheless, Mitzvos do have some reasons and explanations that relate to us, a logic based species. However, it is vital to be aware that these explanations are only auxiliary to what the Mitzvos truly are

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WHAT IS WRITTEN IN A HOLY TEXT HAS A SEAL OF TRUTH

Is it better to give a series of lectures or should each shiur be self-contained? Should you teach from a text? What is the right balance between explaining in-depth and covering ground? What topic should you pick when starting a new Chassidus shiur? * Principles, advice and examples, to intensify Mivtza Hakhel by giving shiurim in Chassidus.

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TEACHING CHASSIDUS TO BEGINNERS?

A LESSON FROM TU B’SHVAT

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SOWING WITH TEARS IS AN OBLIGATION

Even then, only two years since he accepted the Chabad leadership, the Rebbe had acquired a reputation as a wise, warm person to whom chinuch (Jewish education) was dear to his heart

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expansion from Two to Fifty in One Year

Once the JDC agreed to support the Chabad activities in Morocco, the question was how fast should Chabad expand * The JDC wanted Chabad to focus on opening a Central Yeshiva and training teachers, while Chabad expanded with schools across the country * What was the Rebbe’s view on this? * What was the JDC reaction to Chabad’s “straying into the military zone”

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HOUSEKEEPER AND COUSIN

Presented for Chaf-Beis Shevat, the day that Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, the wife of the Rebbe, passed away

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BASI L’GANI 5716

Beis Moshiach presents the maamer the Rebbe MH”M delivered on Yud Shvat 5716, in accordance with the custom established by the Rebbe to review each year a section of the Rebbe Rayatz’s maamer Basi L’Gani of 5710. • This year we focus on the sixth section of the profound and foundational Chassidic discourse.

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NOW IT’S TIME FOR YOU TO DO YOUR MISSION

I have completed my mission, and now the time has come for You, as it were, to do Your mission (since G-d is a Shliach as well (“he relates His words to Yaakov, etc.”), and together with Your Ten S’firos, the very Essence of G-d is, at it were, Moshiach Tzidkeinu): “Shlach na b’yad tishlach” – send to us Moshiach Tzidkeinu in the literal, tangible sense!

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DRAMA IN THE CLASSROOM

R’ Tomer Rothaus, a Lubavitcher actor, decided to take his acting talent to public schools around Eretz Yisroel and teach Tanach in a dramatic way that includes the students. He includes explanations and stories that intensify the learning experience and draws the fascination of the students to the soul of Torah. * The organization he started has grown and now employs a staff of teachers

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STORY OF A HIDDEN NESHAMA

R’ Moshe Shuster was a known personality in B’nei Brak. He was a man of tz’daka and chesed who acted like a simple person. Not many knew of his spiritual greatness which he worked to conceal from all. * He was in touch with the Rebbe and even this was done secretively, but from the little that he revealed we see that the Rebbe greatly cherished him and recognized his greatness. The crowning moment was when they met and the Rebbe received him in a most unusual way

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Signed on the Rebbe’s Letterhead

After the JDC refuses to support the Chabad activities in Morocco, an independent fundraising effort is launched * Rabbi Binyomin Gorodetsky signs two rare and unique letters on the Rebbe’s letterhead, and manages to secure the financial support of the JDC * Part Three

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THE POWER OF CHILDREN IN HAKHEL AND BRINGING MOSHIACH

This week - the week following Yud Shvat - we read Parshas B’Shalach. The highlight of the Parsha is the miraculous splitting of the sea and the singing of “Az Yashir”, hence the nickname for this Shabbos: Shabbos Shira - the Shabbos of song.

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THE BITACHON PARADOX

The existence of the entire Jewish nation is in grave danger. The Yidden are trapped with the sea before them and the Egyptians in hot pursuit right behind them. With good intentions, the Yidden offer different ideas on how to proceed

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