Thursday
Nov072019
“Go!” – to Where?
November 7, 2019מו. תרגום מקטעים משיחות ש”פ לך לך, י”א מר-חשון תשנ”ב 46. Mar-Cheshvan 11, 5752 – October 19, 1991
Thursday
Nov072019
On Combating Laziness
A handwritten answer from the Rebbe to an individual who asked for advice on how to combat laziness:
Thursday
Nov072019
Do I need to pay a Mohel?
A collection of halachos regarding the Mitzva of Bris Milah –first presented in this week’s parsha, from AskTheRav.com & Halacha2Go.com.
Thursday
Nov072019
Hard Hat Miracles
Beis Moshiach went out to the construction sites of 1989 to hear about the $100 checks from the Rebbe, Crown Heights’s new neighborhood, the “extra” check the Rebbe sent, and the mechanic who began to walk after drinking a bottle of the Rebbe’s Mashke… .
Thursday
Nov072019
Native Intelligence
Forty years ago, the majority of psychologists and psychiatrists assumed that young children were incapable of logical thought. They argued that children were irrational because they did not understand the relationship between cause and effect.
Thursday
Nov072019
How The Rebbe Saved Rabbi Nachman’s Gravesite from Destruction
5739. A tremor shook up Breslover Chassidim worldwide. A message sent from the Ukraine, which was behind the Iron Curtain, to Rabbi Michel Dorfman, a distinguished Breslover Chassid, warned of an evil plan of the Soviet government. According to this plan, all the villas bordering on the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman zt’l would be cleared away on Pushkina Street, including the holy gravesite and cemetery.
Thursday
Nov072019
Why Can Hashem follow His Ta’ava, and I Can’t?
I’ll answer the question directly: We should emulate Hashem and follow all of our ta’avos as well, we must insert one caveat and prerequisite — that all the ta’avos should be of the same type as Hashem’s: born out of strength rather than weakness.
Thursday
Nov072019
The Daring Escape From the Berditchev Orphanage
Six young tmimim — all legally minors, are caught by the NKVD at an underground 24 Teves Farbrengen in Berditchev. They claim to be orphans, and are thus sent to a Soviet orphanage to be “reeducated” as “useful” citizens…
Thursday
Nov072019
"I Don’t Need To Fast For Rain…”
R’ Zalman (not the actual name) was one of the distinguished Chabad Chassidim in Eretz Yisrael. There weren’t many Lubavitcher Chassidim in Eretz Yisrael at that time, during the nesius of the Rebbe Maharash, and R’ Zalman was one of them.
Thursday
Nov072019
Another 1.8 Billion Arabs Are Good for the World
Despite two general elections, only months apart from each other, the makeup of Israel’s next government remains unknown. One thing, however, that did emerge from the last election is that the Arab population of Israel has amassed enough power to somehow, if not to steer the direction of the next government, it can at least “put the brakes” on steering it in another way.
Thursday
Nov072019
Yechidus with Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu
On the 6th of Mar-Cheshvan 5752, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, a prominent Israeli Posek and then Sephardic Chief Rabbi in Israel and a long-time friend of Lubavitch, came to visit the Rebbe.
Thursday
Nov072019
MIZBEACH/ALTAR IN TRIPLICATE
A clever and very hungry beggar went to a restaurant. Knowing that he could not pay, he asked the woman in charge if he could eat for free. She refused.