Q. Every summer over the past few years I begin worrying about the upcoming High-Holiday season. It’s not that I have a problem going to my mother-in-law. Not at all. Let me explain:
In 1939, the Jewish population in Eretz Yisrael found themselves in a perplexing situation. They had two powerful enemies.
Most innovative and “independent” of predecessors, yet visibly attached to them, particularly to the Previous Rebbe, more than any of his predecessors were to the generation before them.
The famous Chassid, Reb Zalman Moshe HaYitzchaki, was not known as someone who was particularly stringent about using only “clean language.” His juicy farbrengens were interwoven with a wide range of choice words dedicated to the Yezer Hara and his allies. Words that the average person would refrain from saying, to say the least…
One of the customs of the month of Elul is to check tefillin and mezuzos. The following is an amazing story about this.
לד. קטעים משיחות ש”פ ואתחנן, שבת נחמו, ט”ז מנחם-אב ה’תנש”א (2) 34. 16 Menachem-Av, 5751 − July 27, 1991 (2)
Certainly, the conduct must be based on the directives of Chazal. This behavior is also best for the physical wellbeing of the one following it, not only his spiritual benefit.
A perfect tzaddik has no negativity in him at all. Struggling with seeing how it applies to him, the tzaddik asks – repent for what?! * Someone pointed out to me a glaring stira to my recent editorial of two weeks ago , one that seems to directly contradict the Rebbe…
A collection of relevant halachos regarding the Mitzvah of Birchas Hamazon mentioned in Parshas Eikev from AskTheRav.com & Halacha2Go.com.
When did the Rebbe “take responsibility” for the shechita, and is Lubavitcher shechita necessarily always the best, highest level of kashrus?
We are currently in the grip of the largest measles outbreak in the United States in two decades. In 2000, measles was declared eradicated in the United States. Ironically, though, the childhood vaccination program was a victim of its own success. Because the risk of contracting measles was seen as low, more people began to opt out of vaccination, citing fears of vaccine side effects. This created the conditions that allowed the measles virus to once again spread.
When Rabbis Yariv Klein and Motti Cohen started their shlichus in the Panamanian island of Bocas del Toro right off the Caribbean shore, they never imagined that in less than 7 years they ‘d have a 4 floor center at the beach.
August 29, 2019