A Chassidic shliach was standing in the check-in line on his way to the Rebbe MH”M, when he suddenly met a Poilishe chassid standing near him. “Where are you heading?” he inquired in a characteristically Jewish manner. “I don’t know why I’m here or whether I’m even boarding a flight,” the man replied. “The Lubavitcher Rebbe just sent me here…”
Throughout the HaYom Yom there is much discussion about the setting up and printing of the Torah Ohr and Likkutei Torah. The Rebbe writes (Purim Katan): My revered grandfather, the Rebbe [Maharash], once told my revered father, the Rebbe [Rashab], “My father (the Tzemach Tzedek) chose the maamarim that appear in Likkutei Torah from two thousand maamarim [authored by the Alter Rebbe].”
Stainless steel and aluminum pots and pans are often lubricated in the manufacturing process. Some contemporary poskim are concerned that the lubricating agent might be derived from animal fat, which would require kashering the utensil. Since the lubrication process involves heat, kashering via libun gamur (blowtorching) would arguably be necessary. However, there are many valid arguments for not making kashering compulsory in this case, including the fact that the lubricating oil is not considered food.
It was at the end of a long day of school. A heat wave had begun and two exhausted, sweaty children trudged home.
If G-d had caused the Jewish people to remain exiled in Egypt a little while longer, they would have completed the ultimate purpose for which the world was created. Nevertheless, “Once the time of redemption had arrived, G-d did not delay even the blink of an eye
The recent controversy emanating from Poland these days began with the passage of a law prohibiting referring to Nazi death camps as “Polish camps.” It only intensified with the statement of the Polish Prime Minister, about “Polish perpetrators” and “Jewish perpetrators.” Chabad Holocaust researcher, R’ Shneur Zalman Berger, presents his research findings that there were a lot more Poles who killed or betrayed Jews than there were who risked their lives to save Jews. * Also, an update about the work of Chabad in Poland.
The life and work of the gaon and Chassid, Rabbi Mordechai Belinov, a”h, author of Shulchan Mordechai, who was a shliach in Morocco and then Mara D’Asra in the Chabad community in Aubervilliers, France, and Rosh Av Beis Din Lubavitch in France
“When the cloud rose up from over the Tabernacle, the children of Israel would set out on all their journeys. But if the cloud did not rise up, they did not set out until the day that it rose.”
It is 30 years since the start of Mivtza Yom Huledes that the Rebbe initiated on the day of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka’s birthday, 25 Adar 5748, about a month after her passing. * This campaign has drawn thousands to Torah and mitzvos thanks to the shluchim who mark the birthdays of their mekuravim.
This story happened at the end of the Yom Kippur War. In this war, the Arabs had great success at the beginning, when they caught the Israeli army by surprise and unprepared for war. It was only after several days of fighting that our soldiers managed to rout the enemy and enter deeply into their territory. The reserve unit that I served in as a sapper was camped facing Ismalia, on the other side of the Suez Canal. We were in Egypt.
The sequence of the events and how they all interconnect - together comprising the story of the miracle, resulting in the salvation and redemption of the Jewish people - is discernable only in reading the Megilla, as the Megilla weaves together only the relevant events that contributed to the Purim redemption.
March 13, 2018