FEIGLIN’S PLAN TO STREAMLINE THE I.D.F.

During the week when the Netanyahu government approved the new legislation to draft the ultra-Orthodox into the army, we turned to the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Mr. Moshe Feiglin, chairman of the Likud Party’s Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction, to hear about his proposals on the issue of compulsory military service, the concept of Jewish economics, his position on the rift between the Bayit Yehudi Party and the chareidi communities, and what the IDF should do to prevent the throwing of rocks at Jewish cars along the highways of Yehuda and Shomron.

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THE NON-BLESSING BLESSING

To underscore the role of gratitude as an identifying sign of Moshiach, the Talmud (Sanhedrin 94a) relates that G-d initially wanted to proclaim King Chizkiyahu as Moshiach. When Chizkiyahu failed to sing praise at the miraculous downfall of the Assyrian King Sancheriv, G-d changed His mind.

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THE MATRIX OF OPPOSITES

When Sergei came out of the meeting he called over a few people and told them that they have to organize an “army” that he—Sergei—would lead personally, to bring about the appointment of Rabbi Levi Yitzchok as the Rav. * “Atzmus defies all description—negation of the finite and negation of the infinite.”

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THE FIRST AMERICAN TAMIM

About one of the first shluchim in the United States, R’ Shlomo Zalman Hecht a”h. * Presented to mark his passing on 24 Menachem Av 5739.

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THE REBBE’S DOLLAR MAKES THE ROUNDS

This fascinating story told by Rabbi Chanoch Henich Zilberstrom began with a simple telephone request to donate a dollar he had personally received from the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. It eventually led to an incredible series of unexpected messages revealing to whom the dollar really belonged.

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THE REBBE ON REGIME CHANGE IN AN ARAB COUNTRY

On Shabbos Parshas Mishpatim 5752, the Rebbe revealed that the one behind all the global upheavals was the Rebbe himself, in his role as Moshiach. He is preparing the world for the new era of “grinding swords into plowshares.” * An extraordinary story, that I heard from my brother-in-law R’ Leibel Groner, sheds new light on how we Chassidim need to look at what is going on in the world. * My friends and brothers, the Rebbe is behind the headlines and he wants us to understand them as such.

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MERITING A MIRACLE FROM THE REBBE AND REB LEVI YITZCHOK

“We immediately went to the house and checked the mezuzos. The world uv’kumecha (when you get up) in the mezuza on my daughter’s room was faulty. Of course, we immediately changed mezuzos.” * Presented for 20 Av, the day that marks the passing of the Rebbe’s father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Schneersohn a”h.

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THE REBBE: MOSHE INCARNATE

In each generation, the soul of Moshe is manifest within … the nasi ha’dor, the leader of the generation. Indeed, “there is no generation within which there is not someone like Moshe.” There must be a “Moshe” in each generation within which the soul of Moshe is manifest, enclothed.

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A PARAGON OF MESIRUS NEFESH

For nineteen years, the Rebbe kept in his room the pages of the Machzor that Rabbi Moshe Greenberg a”h wrote when he was in a Siberian labor camp. * A Chassid who lived a life of mesirus nefesh along with bittul and hiskashrus to the Rebbe.

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HOLY LETTERS AT 3 A.M.

Influential members of the Jewish community in Charlotte, North Carolina, demanded a complete overhaul in the administration of the city’s Chabad School. The Rebbe’s shliach, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Groner, was worried that one of his most important projects was about to collapse. However, in the middle of the night, two letters arrived by fax sent by persons unknown…

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HOLD ON TO BOTH “HEADS” OF THE ROPE

“You are holding on to both heads [ends] of the rope.” The rope is a metaphor for a connection. Moses wanted both connections: the connection he had to his people that engendered their atonement and survival, and the connection to the Land of Israel, because of its optimal level of Mitzvah observance, which is our rope and lifeline to G-d. G-d informed him, you can only have one end of the rope at the present moment.

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‘YOU ARE MY SOLDIER!’

After the war, R’ Uri Nosson Nota Barkahan a”h returned to Riga and, with a few other survivors, began reestablishing the Chabad community. * About his secret trip to Georgia on shlichus for the Rebbe, about smuggling Chassidic manuscripts out of the Soviet Union, and about his return to Riga after more than twenty years. * Ten years ago, R’ Barkahan was interviewed by Beis Moshiach about his memories of the Chabad community in Riga. * Part 2 of 2

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T’MIMIM – WHOLESOME IN TORAH AND HISKASHRUS

Yeshivas Tomchei T’mimim Lubavitch – Queens, is a mesivta which after two years of being opened, went from a minyan of bachurim to sixty talmidim. * Rabbi Menachem Mendel Scharf, the Menahel Ruchni of the yeshiva, addresses the educational issues and challenges of our generation as well as gives the inside story of the founding of the Yeshiva.

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