Wednesday
Jun052019
Who Said “A Bachur Should Have More Enjoyment from Torah Than From Going On Mivtzaim?”
June 5, 2019A Pre-Shavos Farbrengen with Rabbi Menachem Mendel Groner, from the Rebbe’s shluchim to Eretz Yisrael.
Entries in Farbrengen (47)
Thursday
Oct112018
THE CHASSIDISHE BOOSTER SHOT
There is a famous Chassidic story regarding the power of a farbrengen.
Monday
Apr092018
IT’S ALL IN THE MIND
Beis Moshiach presents a recent talk by Rabbi Reuven Wolf, shliach in Los Angeles, delivered to the students of B’nos Menachem in Crown Heights – Part 2.
Monday
Mar262018
ENTERING ANOTHER DIMENSION: “THE MOSHIACH ZONE”
Beis Moshiach presents a recent talk by Rabbi Reuven Wolf, shliach in Los Angeles, delivered to the students of B’nos Menachem in Crown Heights.
Wednesday
Dec202017
TIFERES ALUMNI FARBRENGEN IN YERUSHALAYIM WITH RABBI LIPSKIER
Earlier this month, an event took place that some people have been saying for years would be a sure sign of “Moshiach’s Tzeiten” on the horizon. The world-renowned mashpia from Crown Heights, Rabbi Avrohom Levi Lipskier, formerly of Yeshivas Tiferes Bachurim in Morristown, New Jersey and Yeshivas Tiferes Menachem in Seagate, New York, came at long last to Eretz Yisroel to lead a farbrengen for about fifty alumni from his baal t’shuva programs.
Monday
Aug212017
EYES TO SEE
Remember how we started off this series—with the story of Rabbi Levi Yitzchok by the river on Rosh HaShana? The chassid he was walking with asked him where we see—in physical reality—the spiritual elevation of the world that takes place on Rosh HaShana. Rabbi Levi Yitzchok leaned over the bridge, stared at the river for a while and then said, “The river is flowing in an entirely different manner
Tuesday
Aug152017
“EYES TO SEE…”
HIDING IN PLAIN VIEW (Part 2 of a 3-part series) In Part 1: A Fake World, we made the point that we don’t really see the reality of the world. It is an עלמא דשקרא as the Zohar calls it—a fake world, and only through the Torah can we successfully interact with the true reality
Wednesday
Aug092017
A FAKE WORLD
One Rosh HaShana, Rabbi Levi Yitzchok was walking with a chassid along a river. At one point the chassid asked him, “It says in Chassidus that on Rosh HaShana the inner life of the world is elevated. How do we see this in the world? Everything looks the same as it does the rest of the year
Tuesday
Jun202017
ANTICIPATING THE ULTIMATE GIMMEL TAMMUZ CELEBRATION
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.
Tuesday
Dec132016
JOY AND TEARS IN THE VALLEY OF WEEPING
“After the people sitting there said l’chaim, they sang a lot with great fervor from the depths of their hearts and with much joy, with clapping and tremendous enthusiasm. The entire house was filled with joy and light, lofty holiness and jubilation, as though angels on high were singing and dancing with the Chassidim who farbrenged together in unity and brotherly love, in an atmosphere of great holiness.” * From the memoirs of Rabbi Shlomo Galperin a”h, who describes farbrengens that took place in his parents’ home when he was a child.
Tuesday
Sep202016
MY PERSONAL R’ YISROEL
I visited R’ Yisroel Grossman in his home in Battei Warsaw. When I walked in, he was learning Gemara but he immediately stopped and held out his hand in greeting and began talking as though he had all the time in the world for me. * Memories and personal stories from R’ Yisroel Grossman a”h.
Sunday
May012016
BIRTHDAY BLESSINGS AND GIFTS FROM THE REBBE
At nearly every 11 Nissan farbrengen, the Rebbe would begin with “and I will bless those who bless you,” with the Rebbe blessing all those who blessed him. The Rebbe, who received spiritual gifts from his Chassidim in honor of his birthday, also gave gifts. On nearly every 11 Nissan in later years, the Rebbe gave out something, whether a pair of t’fillin to someone who committed to using them, a new kuntres that was published, something new in hafatza or a Tanya. The following collection of diary entries covers some of those events
Tuesday
Apr122016
SMALL FLAMES, GREAT LIGHTS
In an earlier issue of Ateres Chaya, Moran Kors wrote a brief article about how a small loving gesture done with warmth and a smile, of giving Shabbos candles to a typically free spirited Israeli teenage girl, started the process that took a few years until she became a baalas t’shuva. As a shlucha herself today, her message was that small actions to increase light have far reaching ripple effects beyond what the person doing the deed can ever realize or imagine.
