Monday
Apr022012
JUMP!
April 2, 2012If the theme of Pesach is “jumping” to the mindset of redemption, it would only make sense that there must be something that we do on Pesach that helps us leave our boundaries and enter the world of Redemption.
Monday
Apr022012
OF MATZA AND TRULY BITTER HERBS
The following installment is a testament to the indomitable Jewish spirit that managed to survive the smokestacks of the Nazi crematoria. * Part 2
Monday
Apr022012
THE FIVE SONS OF THE SEDER IN DHARAMKOT
Most of the participants at the s’darim at Chabad houses in India fall into the category of the “Fifth Son” whom the Rebbe said must also be brought to the table. * The “Fifth Son” comes in many guises – as a Wise Son, a Wicked Son, a Simple Son, and One Who Does Not Know How to Ask. And there is the fifth son within the category of Fifth Son who doesn’t even show up and ends up making a Seder for himself. * Rabbi Dror Moshe Shaul, the Rebbe’s shliach to Dharamkot, Dharamsala, together with his family and the bachurim Eliyahu Sebbag and Mendy Taib, tell about five special people.
Monday
Apr022012
THE PESACH FAQ’S REVISITED
That child-like innocence that hasn’t yet been tainted by our intellectual nature may be lying dormant. We must do something drastic, unorthodox and unconventional to awaken it.
Monday
Apr022012
PESACH: AN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
What attitude should we have towards the children’s cleaning and preparing for Pesach? What do we need to be careful about when it comes to Chol HaMoed trips? How can we strengthen the family during Yom Tov? What sort of atmosphere should we be aiming to achieve in the home during Yom Tov?
Monday
Apr022012
THE SOVIET PROSECUTOR’S MATZA ORDER
Episodes from the life of a young man who made his way through the spiritual minefield that was Soviet Russia.
Friday
Mar302012
EXODUS: A FORMULA FOR PERSONAL GROWTH
We will still commemorate the Exodus in the Messianic era because without that memory and the transformative quality that constituted the journey out of slavery, the liberation and awareness we will experience then would not be possible.
Friday
Mar302012
THE FATE OF SDEROT IS THE FATE OF TOULOUSE
Just as it’s impossible to separate the Hezbollah threat in the north from the Hamas threat in the south, there can be no distinction between the bullets that ended the lives of Jewish schoolchildren in France and the missiles fired on Beersheva – with no proper response forthcoming in either case.
Friday
Mar302012
OF MATZA AND TRULY BITTER HERBS
The following two periods in young Heishke’s life – the purges of the 1930’s and the period immediately after WWII – are testaments to the indomitable Jewish spirit that managed to survive the crushing under the Soviet boot and the smokestacks of the Nazi crematoria. * Dedicated to my grandfather, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Dubrawski. * Part 1
Thursday
Mar292012
THE EMPEROR’S CLUB: MOSHIACH’S VICE-PRESIDENT
The Gemara says that in the times of Moshiach there will be “a Caesar (emperor) and a half-Caesar (viceroy).” Why would Moshiach need a viceroy?
Thursday
Mar292012
THE REBBE SENDS TWO TORAHS ON YUD-ALEF NISSAN
On 11 Nissan, the Rebbe sent two Sifrei Torah to a new neighborhood called Nachalat Har Chabad, a neighborhood in Kiryat Malachi. On Chol HaMoed Pesach there was a festive event that was attended by Chassidim from all over the country. * Why did this new neighborhood merit such a special gift? Why two Sifrei Torah? * “If He had given us the Torah … Dayeinu.”
Thursday
Mar292012
THE REBBE IS WAITING FOR US FOR TWENTY YEARS!
Knowing that the Rebbe is with us and directing world events towards the Geula, makes us long to see him. This longing motivates us to action to bring about the hisgalus!
Thursday
Mar292012
MATZA FROM THE REBBE
This is a story about shmura matza that was given out by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Freiman, which led to momentous changes in the lives of a local family – a special story of matza, a dream, an apartment and a baby.