G-d instructed Moshe to wage war against Midian for causing the Jewish people to sin, causing them much grief. As the last major campaign before he was to pass, G-d instructed Moshe to take revenge on the Midianites, and only then pass on.
Every year, dozens of Admurim visit cities and countries far from their headquarters. They need logistical and spiritual assistance, which they get from the Rebbe’s shluchim. These are opportunities for direct encounters between Admurim and the work of the shluchim in preparing the world to greet Moshiach. * Beis Moshiach set out on an intercontinental journey to cover this phenomenon. We heard what goes on behind the scenes, about the impressions made on these Admurim, about private audiences with the Rebbe that they had, and about their high regard for the shluchim
This Shabbos, Matos-Massei, is Shabbos Mevarchim Chodesh Menachem Av. It is critical, especially as we approach the Nine Days, that we farbreng about the Avoda that needs to be done now to bring the Geula and turn the month of Menachem Av into happy and joyous days forever.
From Chapter Fifteen of Rabbi Shloma Majeski’s Likkutei Mekoros, Volume 2 (Underlined text is the compiler’s emphasis
How can we explain the situation today when we don’t see the Rebbe (Rebbe is not something you can explain or understand; a Lubavitcher doesn’t have to understand everything). * Why should we write to the Rebbe when he knows everything? (There is also the fact that from our perspective there is “tzimtzum k’peshuto” and this is how the Rebbe wants it; it’s part of being a Chassid). * Is it proper to write to the Rebbe using volumes of Igros Kodesh? (This has a precedent in that Chassidim in Russia inserted letters into sifrei Chassidus). * When will the Rebbe come back? (I think I can say when this will happen …). * The mashpia, Rabbi Zushe Posner, one of the Rebbe’s shluchim in Eretz Yisroel, speaks about hiskashrus to the Rebbe (nowadays), writing to the Rebbe as an integral part of hiskashrus, and about how we Chassidim relate to this state of concealment in the moments before the hisgalus.
When Moshiach will come to redeem us, all the Jews of the world will come out to greet him, and every Jew will look for a Torah scroll with which to greet Moshiach. However, since there are clearly more Jews than Torah scrolls, what will those Jews do who don’t have Torah scrolls? Your Forefathers will come to take you, and they will bring you as living Torah scrolls to greet Moshiach Tzidkeinu. Thus, if you are aware that you will be used as living Torah scrolls, you obviously know how you should learn Torah, daven, and have true Yiras Shamayim
It is not correct to say that the thought of redemption in the time of exile is a dream, but the exact opposite: when we think about exile – that is the dream! * It is specifically when one accepts the illusion of exile, that it is a dream; it is only during the (dream of) exile that one fools himself into thinking that it is reality
Friday afternoon, in the center of cities like Ramat Gan, Beit Shemesh, Ashdod etc., you will see them at t’fillin stands. No, they are not Lubavitcher bachurim, they are bachurim and married men from Poilishe Chassidic groups who do Mivtza T’fillin every week! * In a conversation with Beis Moshiach, Yisroel Chaim Detz, who runs a t’fillin stand and is a former Poilishe Chassid, told about the challenges of this new phenomenon – the men who go far away from where they live so they won’t be identified, the bachurim who need to hide from their mashgiach, and a personal story about the rain that fell and the Chassid that blossomed
Jewish Holidays come in their prescribed times; Passover in the spring, Sukkos in the fall. The way the Jewish calendar is set up, Pesach can never occur in any other season than the spring. Although we follow a lunar calendar in which a year has 11 days fewer than a solar year, we add a leap month 7 times in a 19-year cycle to compensate for the disparity. In this way, Holidays always occur in the same season.
Tziporah Piltz is a tour guide and master educator who lives and breathes the Hilchos Beis HaBechira not only during the Three Weeks. Her home is on the Mt of Olives, but she is eagerly awaiting the day that the earth will split beneath her (a Messianic prophecy). Although she makes her home on a holy mountain, her true yearnings are focused on the neighboring mountain where we will soon see our true home rebuilt on the other side of the Kosel
At a young age he had a small science lab in his house, he star-gazed, and contemplated the meaning of nature, but it was only when he heard about the ten s’firos that he understood that he needed to find meaning in his life. This he found at the Chabad House in Kiryat Bialik. * Over the years, he began researching fears and phobias and he now treats them. * R’ Ofer Gottlieb tells his life story and shares fascinating insights
July 19, 2017