On Combating Laziness
A handwritten answer from the Rebbe to an individual who asked for advice on how to combat laziness:
A handwritten answer from the Rebbe to an individual who asked for advice on how to combat laziness:
An answer from the Rebbe replying to a query of a Chosson and Kallah who were experiencing difficulty in arranging their wedding banquet to be with a Mechitzah, so they asked whether they should cancel the banquet altogether, and conduct only a Chuppah:
An answer to an organization that wanted to do something which could have caused some machlokes:
An answer of the Rebbe (written in 5730) to someone who asked why it is the Chabad custom to use Esrogim from Calabria and not from Eretz Yisrael, which would support the Yishuv in Israel?
After the Rebbe’s traditional blessing on Erev Yom Kippur of 5729 (1969), the Rebbe’s secretary, Reb Leibel Groner, wrote to the Rebbe that “some pointed out and are worried that in the Bracha of Erev Yom Kippur after Mincha, in which the Rebbe Shlita blessed Klal Yisrael, the usual blessing of “a Chasima and Gmar Chasima Tova” were not mentioned as in every year.”
An answer from the Rebbe to a Pan from before Rosh Hashana regarding publicizing words of inspiration for Yiras Shamayim by influential people:
A Shevat 5727 (1967) answer from the Rebbe regarding the proper relationship between educators to their students and their parents:
The following answer — on the topic of choosing a school with a proper Jewish atmosphere for the children — gives a glimpse into the way things worked in the mazkirus, the Rebbe’s secretariat.
Certainly, the conduct must be based on the directives of Chazal. This behavior is also best for the physical wellbeing of the one following it, not only his spiritual benefit.
The Rebbe’s handwritten response to a husband who asked for a bracha regarding his wife’s health
An answer from the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach to someone who wrote about his difficulties with parnasah
The Rebbe gives general advice on how to influence others in matter of Yiddishkeit:
The Rebbe writes to someone about how to contend with unwanted thoughts that intrude at various times: