Wednesday
Nov082017
100% COMMITMENT
November 8, 2017There is a popular stereotype that Chassidim are not organized and not punctilious to use out their time to its fullest.
Wednesday
Nov082017
WELCOME TO THE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM
They have a bell, a board, books and notebooks, but it all happens over the internet with a webcam and computer screen. The virtual school for children of shluchim has a goal: to become a suitable tool that will meet the needs of the post-Geula era
Wednesday
Nov082017
LIFE OR DEATH PREGNANCY
I will never forget that fateful evening. My parents were sitting with relatives who had come with a life and death question. The tension was apparent in everybody in the room. “In normal times, everything was simple. We would call the Rebbe’s secretariat and the Rebbe would say what to do, but now, what should we do?” My father attempted to engage the relative with this question
Wednesday
Nov082017
MAY I RECITE KIDDUSH IN FRONT OF A WOMAN’S UNCOVERED HAIR
What is the purpose of the additional t’fillos (prayers) in Maariv (the evening prayer) of Motzaei Shabbos?
Wednesday
Nov082017
THE ORPHAN FROM SHVENTZIAN
The Rebbe Rayatz often refers to his beloved teacher, Rashbatz (Rabbi Shmuel Betzalel Sheftel), in his diary. Rashbatz was a great Chassid and enormous gaon who was devoted to the study and ways of Chassidus. It is hard to believe that such a Chassid was once a Misnaged!
Tuesday
Oct312017
EVERYTHING MUST NOW BE REVEALED IN HASTE
When the Rebbe instructs us to publish a book or pamphlet, he intends that we publish it as widely as possible, so that the subject matter may be understood by the greatest number of people. This includes issues previously hidden and known only to a select few in an entire generation
Tuesday
Oct312017
COMMUNICATION 101
The Talmud states that one trait endemic to the Jewish people is kindness. Our Sages teach us that we inherited this trait from Abraham. Nowhere is Abraham’s kindness more evident than in this week’s description of his hospitality.
Tuesday
Oct312017
WE ARE BROTHERs
R’ Dovid Nachshon, director of Chabad Mobile Mitzvah Tanks and Tzivos Hashem in Eretz Yisroel, and R’ Avi Taub, CEO of Shefa Yamim, in a heartwarming farbrengen about their connection which began with a bracha from the Rebbe MH”M and continued with mysterious missions from the Rebbe, some of which remain a secret till this day.
Tuesday
Oct312017
DON’T BE A PEASANT
We recently learned the following story in the HaYom Yom (6 Cheshvan): When the Alter Rebbe wished to bless R’ Yekusiel Liepler with wealth, the latter said he did not want it; he did not want wealth to distract him from studying Chassidus and from his involvement with avoda. When the Rebbe wished to bless him with longevity, his answer was: But not “peasant years” - men that have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear, who do not perceive G‑dliness nor do they hear G‑dliness.”
Tuesday
Oct312017
WHO REALLY OWNS YOUR ASSETS?
Many affluent individuals enjoy displaying their impressive library of sefarim (holy books). Some house so many books—with the shelves reaching from floor to ceiling and stretching from wall to wall—that their libraries are worth millions!
Tuesday
Oct312017
WRITING TO THE REBBE IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR DOING WHAT THE REBBE SAID
In Shevat 5748, the Rebbe delivered some sichos in which he established the rules about writing to him. He said that medical questions should be asked of an expert doctor, and even better – to a doctor-friend, and in special cases, to consult with two top doctors
Tuesday
Oct312017
FROM THE ENDS OF THE SKIES
It began in the heavens, continued on earth – physical and spiritual, and the journey isn’t over yet. Or as it says in D’varim 30:4-9, “If your castaways will be at the ends of the skies, from there Hashem will gather you and from there He will take you. And Hashem will bring you to the land that your ancestors inherited … and you will return and listen to the voice of Hashem and do all His mitzvos.”