“These days are more choice for repentance, being days of mercy and favor, for on Rosh Chodesh Elul, Moshe ascended Mount Sinai to receive the second Luchos. He remained there for forty days and descended on 10 Tishrei which was the completion of the atonement. Since then, these days have been dedicated as days of favor and the 10th of Tishrei as Yom Kippur.”
The harshest words of rebuke in the Torah can be found in this week’s parsha. The Talmud states that it is read before Rosh Hashanah, but interrupted by another parsha. This tells us that all of the year’s curses, including the curse of continued Galus, shall cease, and a new year of blessing, particularly, the final Redemption, shall commence. We pray, hope and are confident that G-d will bring an end to all of the past negatives and that the forthcoming year will be, exclusively, one of blessing.
Farbrengens and stories of Chassidim from the notes of R’ Moshe Yehuda Reichmann a”h, mashpia in Yeshivas Toras Emes in Yerushalayim.* From a t’shura for the Rabinowitz-Yaroslavsky wedding.
Finding one’s bashert can be a challenge. Not surprisingly, it is compared to the splitting of the Yam Suf. Rochele Haramati presents some of the dilemmas and questions of those seeking a shidduch to Rabbi Zalman Notik, mashpia in Yeshivas Toras Emes, in Yerushalayim.
R’ Bentzion Cohen of Kfar Chabad merited dozens of special signs of affection from the Rebbe. The most famous of them took place in 5730 when the mashpia, R’ Shlomo Chaim Kesselman, was preparing for a trip to the Rebbe. Many of the bachurim accompanied him to the airport including Bentzion Cohen. In his pocket was a check he had received from his mother and he gave it to the mashpia as “shlichus mitzva” money.
When the Rebbe instructs us to publish a book or pamphlet, he intends that we publish it as widely as possible, so that the subject matter may be understood by the greatest number of people. This includes issues previously hidden and known only to a select few in an entire generation. * Chapter Two of Rabbi Shloma Majeski’s Likkutei Mekoros Vol. 2.
Remember me? It’s me, Mendel, who found a special clock in my grandfather’s shed (issue 983). It is an amazing clock that in a moment had transported me to the Kinus HaShluchim in Russia. Don’t tell me you don’t remember … nu, the Kinus is from a time when we are on the threshold of the Geula and even the Russian government helps the Rebbe’s shluchim and respects them. That’s that, I’m sure you remember.
Before he was eleven, R’ Sholom Ber Alperowitz a”h was sent to learn in Yeshivas Achei T’mimim in Tel Aviv. At age 20 he traveled to the Rebbe and merited special signs of closeness from the Rebbe. * His shlichus was chinuch, as the Rebbe made abundantly clear. * Portrait of a Chassid.
One of the most troubling features of modern times is the phenomenon of the wayward child, the child who rebels against his or her parents, their values and way of life.
R’ Doron and his wife Yael Hagai take concepts from Chassidus and make them intelligible to those who are unlearned in Judaism by using the latest technology in the world of media, 3D animated videos. * Their videos are accessed all over the world, even Iran. * How can Elokus be explained in the language of animation? How does one hasten the Geula in this way? What level of professionalism is needed for it? Doron explains.
There was a trip to Canada, roads blocked by snow, a frenzied series of activities on the subject of family purity, and setting out for shlichus in faraway Tzfas in the shadow of war. All these factors together produced a twofold blessing from Heaven for two couples in need of a bracha for children. Mrs. Chaya Rochel Hendel, well-known mashpia in Tzfas, shares this exceptional story with “Beis Moshiach”.
An interview with the mashpia, R’ Yosef Yitzchok Segal, of Yeshivas Tomchei T’mimim in Migdal HaEmek, who spoke about the importance of preparing before going to the Rebbe, about the differences between bachurim today and bachurim of yesteryear, and about the right way to absorb all the hashpaos of Tishrei
A selection from the Rebbe Rashab’s Hemshech Ayin-Beis (pg. 146-148), dealing with t’shuva at the levels of Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshama. * Presented in the Month of Elul, when we make a soul-assessment of our service of G-d throughout the year
September 8, 2015