THE POWER OF SELF-ABNEGATION

…the desert is the state of total self-abnegation, the Hebrew word for which is bittul. Bittul allows us to combine assertiveness and humility. We become totally receptive to the Divine teachings of the Torah when we are self-effacing. Once we receive G-d’s Torah in its purest state and are devoid of personal agendas, our assertiveness (which may appear to some as arrogance and an inflated ego) is actually an expression of G-d’s authority, not our own. The “desert” personality is simultaneously the most humble person and the most assertive and authoritative person because he is channeling G-d’s authority.

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MESIRUS NEFESH THAT PRODUCED A CHASSIDISHE RAV

A stubborn Jewish mother, a fearful Chassid, a boy hiding under the train seat and an underground yeshiva. * Despite all the obstacles in his way, the child grew up to be one of the great men of our generation. * R’ Isaac Schwei a”h – 26 Iyar 5748.

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16 MORE YEARS!

There was an uplifted atmosphere in the dining room used by the students on K’vutza at 1414, the second night of Pesach. The bachurim sat together to farbreng and between niggunim some of them told miracle stories which they witnessed or which they experienced.

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THE ART OF CHASSIDIC STORYTELLING IN TZFAS

Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles, co-founder of the internationally acclaimed Ascent Institute of Tzfas, went through his own intriguing journey in the world of sports and philosophy. Today, he sends people to the Arizal’s Mikveh, and the results are virtual spiritual revolutions. This is his amazing life story with accounts of his personal audiences with the Rebbe and a vivid description of his wide-ranging outreach activities. Part 2 of 2

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CONQUERING THE WORLD THROUGH TORAH

“Shavuos is coming and we have to do something in honor of the Yom Tov. Aside from the Rebbe’s instruction that all Jewish children should go to shul to hear the Ten Commandments, which is a big project in itself, we have to brainstorm about what to do in honor of Shavuos…”

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R’ ZALMAN LEIB RELATES

Authentic Chassidic stories told by R’ Zalman Leib Estulin a”h, as he heard them from the people they happened to.

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A NEW TORAH, A NEW WORLD

All of the Jewish people will enter…the Third Beis HaMikdash…to learn the “new Torah (that) shall emerge from Me.’”

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WARMING UP RUSSIAN JEWISH SOULS IN FRIGID OTTAWA

The fascinating life story of a boy who grew up in Russia, ended up in yeshiva, and became exposed to Chabad Chassidus. * R’ Michoel Gershzon, of the Jewish Russian Educational Center of Ottawa “Acheinu.”

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MAN ON A MISSION

Forty-three years ago, in Av 5731/1971, R’ Yitzchok Dovid Groner a”h, shliach of the Rebbe to Australia, was in 770. Before returning home, he was called to the Rebbe who gave him 26 ten dollar bills. Each bill was designated for another person in a different location, with a different mission attached to it. * When he finally returned home to Australia, he quickly arranged a series of lectures and farbrengens and sent follow-up letters to the people he met on his shlichus. Then he prepared a detailed report for the Rebbe in which he told of his accomplishments, day by day, hour by hour. * Beis Moshiach presents this special report from a t’shura given at the Telsner-Goldschmidt wedding.

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TREES OF THE FUTURE

“If you will go in the way of My statutes and guard My commandments and you will observe them; then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield her produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.”

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RASHBI IS A JOYOUS REBBE

In connection with the reason for joy on Lag b’Omer, the Rebbe writes: “A number of reasons were said about the joy of Lag b’Omer and its celebration. For us there is only what is written in the writings of the Arizal and brought in Chassidus, that this day is the day Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai passed away, his hilula, ‘that he attained at this time the origin and source of all his levels … and this was the subject of his teachings to the fellowship at this time … and there was illuminated in him the aspect … the illumination of the light of Moshiach. Every year, on this day, this state is aroused once again, as is known.’”

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TO GET YOU MUST FIRST ASK

This week we celebrate the special Yom Tov of Pesach Sheini. We are all familiar with the story of Pesach Sheini. The source for this mitzvah is in BaMidbar (9:1-14). The Yidden were about to celebrate Passover one year after leaving Egypt. The offering of the Korban Pesach was at the core of that celebration. However “certain men” were ritually impure from contact with a human body and were therefore ineligible to participate in the Korban Pesach. Faced with the conflict of the requirement to participate in the Korban Pesach and their ineligibility due to impurity, they approached Moses and Aaron and demanded, “Why should we be left out?” This resulted in the communication of the law of Pesach Sheni.

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THE CHASSIDIC STORYTELLER FROM THE BRONX

Every Motzaei Shabbos at the Ascent Institute of Tzfas, dozens of Jews of all ages and persuasions from all over the world sit with Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles during the Melaveh Malka, as he tells them a few of his exciting Chassidic stories. The only thing they don’t know is that Rabbi Tilles went through his own intriguing journey in the worlds of sports and philosophy and even experienced a brief brush with Buddhism. Today, he sends people to the Arizal’s Mikveh, and the results are virtual spiritual revolutions. This is his amazing life story with accounts of his personal audiences with the Rebbe and a vivid description of his wide-ranging outreach activities. Part 1 of 2

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