Tuesday
Jan162018
WE ARE READY
January 16, 2018At the end of last week’s parsha, the Torah relates that the first seven plagues had no effect on Pharaoh. His heart was hardened and he refused to let the Jewish people go.
Tuesday
Jan162018
AND AVROHOM WENT TO BEER SHEVA
Beer Sheva recently lost the first shliach to begin working there, Rabbi Avrohom Cohen, a”h. From the get-go, he drew many people to Torah, Judaism, and Chassidus. He founded the first Chabad center in Beer Sheva and had permission from the Rebbe to call it “Beis Moshiach.” * Reminiscences following the sudden passing of a shliach who planted the first Chassidic “eshel” in Beer Sheva
Tuesday
Jan162018
NEW LIFE WRAPPED IN TZITZIS
“The hour was late, and since I didn’t want to wake up my Chabad friends, I opened up a Chitas. I recalled once that when I previously opened this seifer I saw that there were pages of ‘Igeres HaKodesh.’ I made no distinction between the ‘Igeres HaKodesh’ in Tanya and the Rebbe’s ‘Igros Kodesh.’ After I washed my hands and made a good resolution, I requested a bracha…” An amazing story of a twofold life-saving, and an answer from the Rebbe MH”M via a special letter from the Alter Rebbe
Tuesday
Jan162018
HOW TO SERVE ICE CREAM AND A HOT CAKE ON SHABBOS
mohel (professional Jewish circumciser) should not request payment for the act of performing a circumcision, since he is performing a mitzvah. In fact, poskim tell us that we should reprimand a mohel who does so. If a mohel insists on being paid, it’s an indication that he is not a member of the Jewish nation whose trademark is compassion.
Tuesday
Jan162018
IN A PAIL OF WATER
A knock at the door disturbed the quiet in the small room packed with s’farim. R’ Yisroel, the Koznitzer Maggid, looked up from the seifer in front of him and told the person knocking to enter. The door opened and in peeked the head of his faithful attendant.
Saturday
Jan132018
Tuesday
Jan092018
BASI L’GANI – 5718 –
Beis Moshiach presents the maamer the Rebbe MH”M delivered on Yud-Alef Shvat 5718, in accordance with the custom established by the Rebbe to review each year a section of the Rebbe Rayatz’s hemshech “Basi L’Gani” of 5710. • This year we focus on the eighth section of the profound and foundational Chassidic discourse. * Section 6 of 8
Tuesday
Jan092018
SAYS WHO?
We are all getting ready for 10 Shevat 5778, the 68th Yahrtzait of the Frierdike Rebbe and the Kabbalas HaNesius of our Rebbe, which initiated the dawn of the Dor HaShvii, “the last generation of Galus and the first generation of Geula.” As such, it is very appropriate to learn a HaYom Yom that connects these two Tzaddikim.
Tuesday
Jan092018
UNLOCKING THE POWER OF THE HALF HOUR
Veteran educator and chairman of the Chassidic Education Center, Rabbi Naftali Roth, in a fascinating conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Reinitz of Machon LIBA (l’chanech yeladim b’derech ha’melech) about the comparison of the mitzva of chinuch to the mitzva of tefillin, about the need to “think” about the chinuch of children, and the million-dollar question: How is it possible to find half an hour every day to think about the chinuch of our children
Tuesday
Jan092018
THE GAON AND THE DRUNK
Presented for Chaf-Dalet Teves, the hilula of the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman
Tuesday
Jan092018
LIBERATING FOUR LAYERS OF OUR PERSONALITY
When G-d told Moses to speak to Pharaoh to liberate the Jewish people, He used four expressions of liberation.
Tuesday
Jan092018
FRENCH OUTREACH IN THE HEART OF MANHATTAN
He works in New York with French-speakers. He was born in Morocco, moved to France, and then found himself in the heart of the business district of Manhattan. * Today he coordinates activities among French-speakers in the greater metropolitan area and is a regular guest in the offices of French government officials in the U.S.* The work of Rabbi Michoel and Esther Cohen.
Tuesday
Jan092018
SNOW IN HALACHA
According to some poskim, snow that falls on Shabbos is muktzeh, but if it fell before Shabbos, it isn’t.