The Chabad community was cast into mourning with the sad news of the passing of R’ Yerachmiel Binyamin Klein on 18 Sivan, one of the Rebbe’s secretaries for decades. * “My general” is how the Rebbe referred to him when introducing him to Prime Minister Menachem Begin. * For many years he served as the conduit to convey thousands of answers from the Rebbe to shluchim, rabbanim, askanim, and people all over the world.
We are quickly approaching the day of Gimmel Tammuz, the day about which the Rebbe writes (Likkutei sichos vol. 4 page 1315): “Chassidim who are connected to the Rebbe should celebrate Gimmel Tammuz!” Since 5754, it seems very difficult to celebrate Gimmel Tammuz.
The double miracle of Rabbi Pinchas Teitz and the double answer between the folded pages of Tanya. * The Rebbe’s prophetic vision and the reason the Rebbe gave for why he was telling him when the situation took a turn for the worse. * The Rebbe’s strong reaction when he was asked again about an operation to which he had said no. * The lesson from the story which the Rebbe conveyed through the Rebbetzin. * The Rebbe’s response to the talmidim who thought that mivtzaim is more important than learning Gemara. * The extra minute of Torah study about which the Rebbe said that it increases his physical life! * From a farbrengen with Rabbi Leibel Groner, personal secretary to the Rebbe, about the spiritual accounting we need to make, knowing that the Rebbe sees and is aware of every thought, speech and action.
Mrs. Tzivia Levy woke up very early one morning after a fascinating dream about the Rebbe. In the dream, the Rebbe gave her a vast amount of gold and jewelry, and then he asked her to fulfill the mitzvah of separating the challah as the Rebbe himself made the bracha. Not long afterwards, the details of this dream miraculously began to take place, one by one, in a most amazing and unexpected fashion.
The Chassid R’ Chaim Eliyahu Mishulovin, a man who endured profound pain and suffering, devotedly preserved the spark of Judaism and was one of the outstanding leaders of the Chabad community in Samarkand. * Presented to mark his passing on 29 Sivan 5732.
Korach started a rebellion against his cousin Moshe. He argued that Moshe had arrogated to himself and his brother Aaron the twin powers of leader and high-priest, respectively. Korach claimed that was unjustified as all Jews were equal and each one had G-d in them. “Why do you exalt yourselves above all of them?”
The political right has apparently begun to learn how to rule the Jewish state. Three new government ministers – Regev, Shaked, and Hotovely – have chosen to bring real change instead of mere cosmetic change designed for putting out fires.
“Ladies and gentlemen, our flight has just landed…” The sound of applause prevented Michael from hearing the rest of the pilot’s message. He looked again and again at the sights out the window and was utterly thrilled. “Eretz Yisroel, the holy land, the land promised to us by Hashem!” he murmured to himself.
Thus, it is written, “Six hundred thousand people on foot are the people in whose midst I am,” for by means of the “people on foot” the Divine revelation of Anochi is drawn within the midst of Moshe.
“The Rebbe taught us alef-beis.” * The Rebbe would visit the Steiner home in Nice and teach the children. * Exclusive to Beis Moshiach.
They grew up in warm Chabad communities and chose to leave the capitol of Chabad in Eretz Yisroel for the jungle and dangerous wilds of Kenya, and no, they did not go there to convert the lions or to shecht giraffes … * The story of an African shlichus in which every Jewish neshama is more precious than pearls. * “If I can do it, then anyone can. This is our derech, to prepare the world for Geula,” says Chaya. She tells us of her doubts, disappointments and even an ultimatum she presented to the Rebbe on her birthday.
Along with his work helping his father in the founding of Chabad mosdos in Australia, R’ Chaim used his business trips to carry out various missions for the Rebbe. * This is how he became the Rebbe’s first shliach to Athens and how he conducted himself when he had a meeting in the Kremlin. * He then moved to Crown Heights where he became one of the most active mashpiim in the neighborhood. * Part 2 of 2.
One of the most difficult stories in the Torah to comprehend concerns the spies handpicked by Moshe to scout the land of Canaan. Ten of the 12 spies gave a horribly slanderous report upon their return. Their negative depiction of the land caused nearly the entire male population of Jews to cry and spurn the gift of the Land of Desire that G-d had promised them. As a consequence of their rebellion, the spies died in a plague and the rest of the Jewish community, aged 20 and older, were destined to die in the desert while the conquest of the land was delayed for almost 40 years.
June 17, 2015