The Rebbe devotes countless hours on addressing the community and the world through his Farbrengens and “General Letters” addressed to the entire Jewish people. The Rebbe also has special gatherings, talks, and letters for specific audiences such as for women, children, senior citizens, and Israeli soldiers.
“I hate my world”, she insisted, her graying arms waving obsessively. “Everything about it is depressing. The longer I’m around, the older and crankier it means that the world is getting!” “
At some point all of us have experienced the pain of rejection, whether it was social, professional or personal. None of us likes the feeling of being considered inferior, unloved, unwanted or unvalued. MRIs have shown that social rejection activates the same areas in the brain as physical pain.
One morning, a Yiddishe Mameh woke up her young son: “Bubbele, you have to wake up and get ready for school.” A few minutes later, “Ziskeit, go brush your teeth. Sheifaleh, don’t forget your breakfast.” Then, just before the boy left the house, his mother turned to him and said, “Tzaddikl, learn well today.”
One of the mitzvos that the Jewish people are commanded is to build the Beis Ha’Mikdash in Eretz Yisrael.
ל. קטעים משיחות ש”פ בלק, י”ז (טוב) תמוז תנש”א (3) 30. Tammuz 17, 5751 − June 29, 1991 (3)
The Rebbe writes to someone about how to contend with unwanted thoughts that intrude at various times:
Now Beis Moshiach is fresh, provocative – and yes, shocking at times. * No longer do we rest on the laurels of “heralding” the redemption. Beis Moshiach is bringing to the fore compelling ideas that are more daring and relevant than ever.
A collection of relevant halachos regarding davening with the Tzibbur from AskTheRav.com & Halacha2Go.com.
3 million Americans suffer chronic visual impairments. But now, a technology used in the Persian Gulf War has been transformed into a visual aid to help them see.
Rabbi Shimon Elituv related how when he came to learn in [a Chabad] Yeshiva in 1951 he used to correspond with the Rebbe very frequently. This went on until the Rebbe became very busy and stopped answering all of his letters, so he decided to stop writing. He was astonished to receive a letter from the Rebbe with a postscript in his own holy handwriting reading, “Your silence is surprising. It saddens me that you are making a calculation – based on the lack of letters from here – that I am loaded with burdens and troubles, etc.”
August 1, 2019