June 14, 2018DOCTORAL THESIS TO BRING MOSHIACH
Dr. Alon Dahan was badly injured during his military service and nearly sank to the depths of despair. A letter from the Rebbe reignited his fire to fight to live. He recorded his personal victory as he rolled along in his wheelchair to the stage to receive his doctorate from Hebrew University in Yerushalayim. * He devoted his doctoral research to the Rebbe’s identity as Melech HaMoshiach. “I know there are some who are angry at my conclusions, but this is what the Rebbe said
40 YEARS OF PREPARING TO ENTER THE LAND
Although the will and desire of the Meraglim for life in the desert, discussed above, is a highly elevated level of d’veikus, avoda mei’ahava (a Divine service stemming from the love of G-d), nevertheless, settling Eretz Yisroel is an even greater achievement, namely fulfilling G-d’s commandments without seeking anything in return, “oseh ha’emes mipnei sh’hu emes – acting with truth and integrity [simply] because it is the true way
EIGHT CHABAD HOUSE STORIES
One of the solutions to bypass the “animal soul” that Chassidim use is the Chassidishe farbrengen. Jews sit together, say l’chaim, and tell Chassidishe stories and life events. Hearts open and a ray of G-dly light pierces the darkness of the “self.” * True stories which occurred at the Chabad House in Kasol, India that moved me.
WHAT IS THE MEASURE OF OUR DAYS?
Commentators point out that the phrase “what is it” (mah hi) can be found in three other places in the Tanach.
“Every neshama has a particular mitzva...
We were saddened to hear of the passing of Rabbi Sholom Dovber HaKohen Gutnick a”h, a senior Chabad rabbi, Av Beis Din and Rosh Yeshivas Chabad in Melbourne. He was 94. * He was a linchpin in the “Australian Revolution.” He strengthened Judaism in Australia where he had gone to live as a bachur with the blessing of the Rebbe Rayatz.
A TREATMENT REGIMEN FOR THE GALUS JEW
After the passing of the Rebbe Rashab in Rostov, and the continuous persecution by the communist regime, the Frierdike Rebbe opened a branch of Tomchei T’mimim in Poland.
‘YOU ARE THE REBBE’S CHILD, SAY L’CHAIM!’
When we left the office of the field’s leading authority in Eretz Yisroel, my wife burst into tears. As for me, I took a few moments to contemplate on the matter and then began to smile from ear to ear. I was suddenly filled with tremendous faith. My wife was surprised by the calm and tranquility that engulfed me. When she asked me to explain, I told her about the clear bracha I had received from the Rebbe in yechidus: “Sons and daughters involved in Torah and its mitzvos.” A deeply moving miracle story.
THE MENORA REMINDS US WE ARE A LIGHT UNTO NATIONS
Seeing the branches of the Menora depicted as semicircles should evoke a terrible cry, in addition to the fact – and this is the main point – that the shape contradicts Rashi and Rambam, etc. It also intimates a kind of condoning, etc., G-d forbid, of the shape on the Arch of Titus, which was made to aggravate Jews and to denigrate them
WHY ARE WE NOT GOING ALL OUT?
How did the Rebbe respond when he heard the young son of R’ Levkivker say the blessing for S’firas HaOmer? * Why did the woman think that the local shluchim were “strange birds,” and what connection was there with a lack of excitement about Moshiach? * Why did the fellow refuse to accept the jelly doughnut? * A rousing speech by R’ Boruch Chaim Levkivker, shliach of the Rebbe and director of the Chabad House in Ramat Menachem Begin in Tzfas, at the large national gathering in honor of Yud Aleph Nissan
SIXTY YEARS LEARNING CHITAS FOR A FRIEND
He wrote a letter describing the situation with the difficult decision facing them and he sent it to twenty-three leading rabbinical authorities across the globe, asking for their advice. He received only one reply – from the Rebbe. * From a recent farbrengen with Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gordon, a Mashpia in Yeshivas Chabad in London.
AS FAR AS ONE CAN GO, AS CLOSE AS ONE CAN GET
The visitors spent several long hours looking for a Jew, any Jew, who might be living in the suburban community of S. Pedro in Argentina’s Tucuman province. Local residents had assured them that there were no Jews anywhere in town, but the visitors continued their intensive and seemingly irrational search. Eventually, they found what they were looking for, something more incredible than even they could have possibly imagined. An amazing and thrilling story that sent shockwaves throughout the Chabad communities of Argentina, retold here for the very first time.