YOU ARE MY SPIRITUAL CHILDREN

Among the thousands of families who live in Crown Heights today, only a few dozen were present in the first years of the Rebbe’s nesius, and only very few merited basking in the presence of the sixth nasi, the Rebbe Rayatz, seeing him daven and being blessed by him in yechidus. One of those few is R’ Yehuda Leib (Leibel) Posner, the son of the famous Chassid R’ Sholom Posner a”h, who was one of the T’mimim in Lubavitch, about whom the Rebbe Rayatz said, “Sholom is mine.”

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ANASH-SHLICHUS: Elad Goldman

“You can do mivtzaim everywhere,” he says, “even with chareidim and knitted kippot types. I have a rule, for example, that we don’t begin until we say the 12 P’sukim and Yechi. That’s my rule, everyone knows it, the teachers and principals.”

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MOSHIACH – THE DERECH HA’YESHARA TO HISKASHRUS

They grew up in old-time Lubavitcher families and were raised on Geula and Moshiach from childhood. The ability to explain things, along with their fascinating lectures, were known already in their youth, and at a relatively young age they displayed superlative talent in their life’s work – raising the next generation of Chabad. * In this joint interview, R’ Gershon Avtzon of Cincinnati and R’ Sender Wilschansky of Milan, discuss the integration of the pleasantness and appeal that is characteristic of Chabad along with unyielding firmness, the inner source for a lack of involvement in publicizing the Besuras HaGeula, and their common chinuch approach: no to compromise and yes to principles.

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THE REBBE IS NOT ALONE AND CHASSIDIM ARE NOT ALONE

To mark the special day of Yud Shvat, Dov Levanon presents a compilation of stories about the relationship between the Rebbe MH”M and the T’mimim, unusual expressions about hiskashrus to the nasi, and the Chassidic conduct expected of the “seventh generation.”

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TWO MODELS OF ANTI-SEMITISM

When Pharaoh had a change of heart and decided to pursue the newly liberated Jewish people, the Torah relates how he prepared himself for that pursuit…

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CHINUCH STARTS AT HOME

How can we get children to feel secure at home? What ingenious solution did the Rebbe advise a woman who wanted to bring her angry son back home? Why does the key to success lie in the Shabbos meals? How do the children feel when their father is tired at the Shabbos table? * A practical article on chinuch, part 1 of 2, by R’ Nachman Twersky, a longtime mechanech in Crown Heights, based on a speech.

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THE AMAZING PRINTING PLATES

A businessman who asked for the printing of a Tanya received instructions from the Rebbe to use the meticulously accurate printing plates prepared by Rabbi Sholom Jacobson. They had been made with great toil and effort by a printer in New Jersey, and they were placed in the cockpit of an airliner and sent to the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. From there, they were transferred to the Lufthansa offices in South Africa and taken for safekeeping at a local Chabad House. A dramatic 3 a.m. phone call brought the printing plates back to the center of attention, and ten years after the story began, Rabbi Jacobson met the child who had been restored to life in the merit of the Tanya printing.

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THE DEFINITION OF TRUE EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS

In an exclusive and inspiring interview, Rabbi Shachar Shaer, well-known educator and principal of the Chabad Talmud Torah in Elad, discusses the publishing of his first book, “N’chanech V’Natzliach.” He recalls his childhood in Rechovos in an atmosphere of shlichus, the moment he burst into tears before his son’s teacher, homework for teachers, the complexity of the parent-teacher relationship, and success in education. How much involvement should parents have in what’s happening in school? Is there such a thing as a helicopter parent? How do we define success in education? What educational message did he learn from an elderly toy salesman excited over a new piece of merchandise?

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HOW TO GET A DRAFT EXEMPTION

Presented for 11 Shvat, the day the Rebbe accepted the Chabad leadership.

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MOSHIACH AND CHINUCH

In our previous article, we discussed the Torah’s view of a Jewish King. We explained that the main role of the Jewish king is to bring the nation closer to Hashem. In the words of Rambam (Melachim 4:10): “His purpose and intent shall be to elevate the true faith and fill the world with justice, destroying the power of the wicked and waging the wars of G-d.”

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TERROR AND FAITH

The wave of terror in Paris left the Jewish community in France reeling and mourning, as they struggle to digest the new reality. * Leaders and rabbanim, led by the Rebbe’s shluchim, were the first to stand by the side of the bereaved families and all of French Jewry, providing spiritual and material support. * Exclusive: Stories of those who experienced astonishing miracles.

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SURREPTITIOUS SCRIVENER

His appointed role as the Rebbe’s eyes and ears in Yerushalayim and the regular reports he sent covering every detail of what was going on among Chabad Chassidim in the holy city was a closely guarded secret for many decades. * His recollections in an exclusive interview with Beis Moshiach along with information culled from a number of archives following his passing, offer us a brief fascinating glimpse into the life of the mashpia, R’ Pinchos Leibush Hertzl a”h.

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THE SHLICHUS OF BRINGING JEWS INTO THE COVENANT OF AVROHOM AVINU

This week we read Parshas Bo, which describes the birth of the Jewish People as a nation on the eve of the Exodus from Egypt in the merit of the blood from the two mitzvos they were given, Korban Pesach and bris mila. To this day, bris mila is a mitzva that is still observed by many Jews, even those who are not yet fully observant in other areas. Beis Moshiach spoke to three Lubavitcher mohalim about their work and how it impacts the parents and extended families.

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