R’ Motti Gal a”h, shliach in Ramat Gan, was walking around and trying to decide which group he should join. Then he noticed someone familiar. He took a good look and realized it was Shimi, a friend from the neighborhood, who wasn’t yet a Chassid.
Prior to the Rebbe Rayatz’s histalkus in 5710, he emphasized the concept of chayim nitzchiim, eternal life. The Rebbe MH”M points out the profound significance of the topics a Rebbe discusses in his final sichos delivered in this world: they serve as instructions for how to proceed in the wake of his histalkus. * The following excerpt, which also speaks of eternal life, is from the last sicha the Rebbe has yet delivered on Gimmel Tammuz.
Gimmel Tammuz is a day that says so much to each one of us. At the same time, Gimmel Tammuz contains within it much more than it says. It is a day that contains so many messages about so many different things. Still, the bottom line is that Gimmel Tammuz contains an identical message for all of us. * It is a day that represents clarity, vision, mission, a goal. A day that reminds us of who we are. But it is also a day of confusion. * The Rebbe teaches us how to integrate these seeming opposites in a special sicha about Menashe and Efraim.
“When you connect to the Rebbe, to whom are you connecting? Not to the Rebbe’s lomdus, not to the Rebbe’s geonus, not to the Rebbe’s tzidkus, and not to the Rebbe’s ruach ha’kodesh, but to a Nasi Yisroel.” * A fascinating conversation with Rabbi Leibel Groner, the Rebbe’s personal secretary and director of Kupas Rabbeinu, covering a range of topics including how to maintain our hiskashrus in the here and now, and the need for a personal reckoning in preparation for Gimmel Tammuz.
This Shabbos Parshas Korach is Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, the Shabbos before Gimmel Tammuz. The words “Gimmel Tammuz” bring out different emotions in many people, yet I feel that there is something that we all should be asking ourselves: how can we bring about the Hisgalus of the Rebbe?
Originally from a Chassidic family in Bratislava, the young boy found himself in a Lithuanian yeshiva in England, and from there he went to the Chabad yeshiva in Montreal. * The directives and instructions he received from the Rebbe in his work of editing the Shulchan Aruch and translating the Siddur, and the open miracles during the process of translating the Machzor for Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur. The Rebbe told his mother how special her son is, even more than she knows… * Part 2 of 2.
Korach’s rebellion began with his gathering of 250 leaders and then proclaiming before them to Moshe and Aaron: “You have gone too far. All the people in the community are holy, and G-d is within them. Why are you setting yourselves above G-d’s congregation?”
From Chapter Fifteen of Rabbi Shloma Majeski’s Likkutei Mekoros, Volume 2.
One Chassid wrote to me that from the time of the histalkus he has been extremely broken, and at times, when he is alone, he breaks down in tears… * What has been accomplished through his tears? Is this the Rebbe’s objective? Did he ask him to cry? * And in the meanwhile, the Rebbe’s shlichus has been neglected! * Following the histalkus of the Rebbe Rayatz, the Rebbe MH”M proclaimed that the Rebbe remains alive as before.
For decades, the Rebbe walked every Shabbos from 770 to his home and back. A few yards away were the T’mimim who followed him until he entered his house. * Why the need for security? What unusual things did the Rebbe’s escorts see over the years? How did the Rebbe react to people who spoke to him on the street? * Fascinating anecdotes from those who accompanied the Rebbe from 770 Eastern Parkway to 1304 President Street.
Originally from a Chassidic family in Bratislava, the young boy found himself in a Lithuanian yeshiva in England. From there he went to the Chabad yeshiva in Montreal. When he finally wanted to settle down and learn in tranquility in 770, he was chosen for a special mission to the bastion of Lithuanian yeshivas, “Beth Midrash Gevoha,” in Lakewood, New Jersey. * R’ Nissen Mangel shares with us how he became close to Chabad against all odds and the special missions he was sent on by the Rebbe to Lithuanian yeshivas. * Part 1 of 2.
The Torah records the story of a certain, nameless, individual who violated Shabbos. Moshe did not know what his punishment should be, so they put him in prison until they could determine what punishment would be appropriate.
It is hard to find a quiet moment in the daily schedule of R’ Yosef Chaim Rosenblatt. He is always on the move between his official position as Chief Rabbi of the Lower Galilee, visiting large manufacturing plants under his kashrus supervision, and his shlichus work. In addition, he answers halachic queries that come to him from across the country, on a wide array of topics, in his role as a “responding rabbi” for Machon Halacha Chabad. * Who better to talk to about the very questions that he deals with on a daily basis: How to bring the Torah and develop a love for Torah among the wider population? How to navigate between the eternal law and the ever-changing times? How to blend shlichus with a formal rabbinic position?
June 29, 2017