Friday
Jul272012
20/20 VISION
July 27, 2012“But what did you see?” “Why, the Holy Temple, of course. You told me that G-d shows every Jew a vision of the Third Temple! Didn’t you see it, too?”
Friday
Jul272012
WINTER IN OUR TOWN
Slichos were not the only type of preparation performed before the winter season; it was necessary to prepare the house for the freezing months to come. * Surprisingly, there were nice days in the winter too.
Friday
Jul272012
STOP CIRCLING THE MOUNTAIN!
As we approach the Messianic Age, the Torah exhorts us to cease struggling with evil in the conventional way of trying to contain it. Stop circling the enemy. It is now high time for us to go north.
Friday
Jul272012
MIRACLES IN THE AUTO SHOP DISTRICT
You don’t have to be a shliach in a large city to create a revolution among Jews. It’s enough to take on a certain area, make regular rounds, establish connections with the local residents and workers, and you can achieve tremendous success. Rabbi Baruch Herzl Borochov, director of the “Igros Kodesh Center” in Rechovos, did just that when he began a regular mivtzaim route in the city’s industrial zone to help bring his fellow Jews closer to their Father in Heaven and the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. The following selection of amazing stories about answers received in “Igros Kodesh” illustrates this point.
Friday
Jul272012
WHERE IS HE ALREADY?!
The Alter Rebbe and Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin met a Chassid lying in the forest on Tisha B’Av … * The people who complained to the Tzemach Tzedek about the Poilish Chassidim who sang a niggun on Tisha B’Av. * Why did the Baal Shem Tov’s brother-in-law faint near the Kosel? * Tzaddikim ask Hashem to take the “holiday” of Tisha B’Av away from His children since they don’t deserve it. * The tzaddik who put his Kinos in sheimos every year certain that Moshiach would come before the next Tisha B’Av. * How will Eicha be recited in Yemos HaMoshiach? * A compilation of stories about Tisha B’Av.
Friday
Jul272012
THE JEWISH “THEORY OF EVERYTHING”
Understanding the differences between Sephardic-Chassidic and Ashkenazic minhagim
Friday
Jul272012
THE ONLY STORY IN SEIFER HA’MINHAGIM
What is it about this particular tale that gave it the distinction of being the one and only story to be included in Seifer HaMinhagim? * When I once shared this question with a friend, he suggested that this story was included because of the great importance of distancing sadness. This answer, however, didn’t satisfy me…
Friday
Jul272012
WAKE UP NOW BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE
We’ve examined the Internet from various perspectives including educational and psychological and learned about the dangers it poses as well as the tools to handle it. In this final article of the series, we present some of our readers’ reactions from which we can learn more about the problem and what to do about it.
Friday
Jul272012
LESSONS OF A SHLIACH ON THE ROAD
Last month we sustained the loss of a precious remnant of the previous generation of Chabad Chassidim in the United States: Rabbi Yosef Wineberg a”h. He was 94. • R’ Wineberg was chosen by the Rebbe Rayatz to be a shadar (fundraiser) for Tomchei T’mimim Lubavitch. In this capacity, he traveled to dozens of countries. * He gave a weekly shiur in Tanya on the radio for decades which the Rebbe listened to. These shiurim were the basis for “Lessons in Tanya,” the s’farim used by thousands in their study of Tanya.
Friday
Jul272012
LEBANON WAR, 1982: THE REBBE PAID TO RENOVATE THE MIKVA IN LEBANON
The tanks boomed while combat planes zoomed, one after another, towards the terrorists’ holdout and annihilated them. Thousands of snipers dispersed to various points in order to eliminate enemy targets; only the Lubavitchers drove around the Arab city Bhamdoun in Lebanon. They wondered how they could renovate a mikva in the heart of Lebanon. After a long, complicated operation, their work was done. * The mikva in Lebanon, along with an amazing, personal story. * 30 years since the Lebanon War: 1982-2012.
Friday
Jul202012
REB ZUSHE AND THE IDF T’FILLIN BRIGADE
“I was once invited to a base and I saw a long line of people waiting to put on t’fillin. I asked R’ Zushe how many soldiers put on t’fillin that day and he happily replied, ‘Several hundred.’” * This is not a description of the Six Day War when Mivtza T’fillin began, but a description of a chaplain who worked during the Sinai War in 5717/1956, ten years before the official start of Mivtza T’fillin.
Friday
Jul202012
PUTTING THE “SPIRIT” BACK INTO SPIRITUALITY
What to write to the Rebbe? What do you mean? This is your Rebbe! Write what’s on your heart. Write what you want, what you need, and what you feel.