Tuesday
Nov082016
HAKHEL EPILOGUE
November 8, 2016Hundreds of families went to the Rebbe this past Hakhel year. Some of them shared their experiences with us. * These are the stories of the Ceitlin and Sukhaik families.
Entries in Moshiach & Hakhel (27)
Tuesday
Sep272016
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS OVER...
After last week’s article in which we went through some of the practical applications of Hakhel, I thought the Hakhel series was completed.
Tuesday
Sep202016
THE HAKHEL DIGEST
This article is being written as we are finishing this special and successful year of 5776, the year of Hakhel. On 28 of Elul 5748, the end of a Hakhel year, the Rebbe asked that the Chassidim should still use out the last moments of that special year to do activities of Hakhel (Toras Menachem 5748 Vol. 4 page 380).
Wednesday
Sep142016
THE YEAR OF THE (LUCKY) TRIPLE SEVEN
This year of 5776 has been a very special year. The Rebbe›s campaign about the inyan of Hakhel was felt and continues to be felt everywhere. It seems that every community and family is having Hakhel gatherings and there is a general feeling of unity. As mentioned last week, this must continue. Even more so, we should be creative with new ideas as we are still in Shnas Hakhel.
Tuesday
Sep062016
30 DAYS LEFT TO HAKHEL
The summer months have come and gone. We are now in the special month of Elul, the month when the “king is in the field,” and we have special powers to strengthen our connection with the Ribbono Shel Olam.
Wednesday
Jul062016
DON’T BE A CHASSIDISHE KORACH!
This Shabbos (Korach) is Gimmel Tammuz. Those two words bring out a lot of mixed emotions by Chassidim. Whatever your Hashkafa or thoughts are, everyone agrees that it is a day of Cheshbon Ha’nefesh about our Hiskashrus to the Rebbe.
Tuesday
May242016
RELIVING MATTAN TORAH
This Shabbos we will be reading the Torah portion of Behar. The word “Behar – on the mountain” refers to the giving of the Torah on Har Sinai. The first topic in the Parsha is the laws of Shmita. On the very first Pasuk (25:1), Rashi comments: “What [special relevance] does the subject of Shmita [the “release” of fields in the seventh year] have to Mount Sinai? Were not all the commandments stated at Sinai? However, [this teaches us that] just as the mitzva of Shmita and its general principles and its finer details were all stated at Sinai, likewise, all of them were stated – their general principles [together with] their finer details – at Sinai
Tuesday
May172016
WHEN WILL THE HALACHA BE LIKE RASHBI?
This Shabbos (Emor) is the Yahrtzait of the Rebbe’s brother, Reb Yisroel Aryeh Leib Schneersohn, and is also the Shabbos before the big Yom Tov of Lag B’Omer. This Yom tov is very special to the Rebbe. Starting from before the Nesius, the Rebbe would participate in special parades catering specifically to children and would speak to the children and watch them march by holding banners, and floats that display Jewish ideas and Jewish pride.
Thursday
May122016
NO EXCEPTIONS WHATSOEVER
We have spent much of the year discussing the Mitzva of Hakhel, the Mivtza campaign of Hakhel, and its connection to the Parsha and Yomim Tovim. In this week’s column I would like to address a basic question that is raised in regards to the Mitzva of Hakhel.
Tuesday
Apr122016
BEYOND DEMOGRAPHICS
This Shabbos – Shabbos Metzora – is “Shabbos HaGadol – the Big Shabbos.” While the apparent reason for this name comes from the fact that this is the Shabbos before Pesach – and to commemorate the tremendous miracles that occurred before the Jewish people left Egypt – as Chassidim it takes on a whole new meaning: It is the Shabbos before 11 Nissan, the birthday of the Rebbe MH”M.
Tuesday
Apr052016
WHY ROAST THE KORBAN PESACH’S LEGS?
This Shabbos, Parshas Tazria, is also Rosh Chodesh Nissan, the month of redemption. In shul we read Parshas HaChodesh, which tells about Hashem’s words to Moshe in Egypt two weeks before the Exodus. Hashem instructed us to set the Jewish calendar by the monthly new moon and to regard Nissan as the “head of months.” G‑d also instructed the Jewish nation to bring the Passover offering, to eat it with matza and bitter herbs, and to abstain from leaven for seven days.
Sunday
Mar202016
BIRTHDAYS = HAKHEL = MOSHIACH
This Shabbos (VaYikra) is the first Shabbos of Adar Sheini. This is the month that we actually celebrate and give thanks to Hashem for the miraculous deliverance during the time of the Purim story. It is well known that the miracles of Purim were in the merit of the birthday of Moshe Rabbeinu.
Thursday
Mar102016
MOSHIACH’S SEIFER TORAH
Parshas P’kudei is the culmination of Seifer Shmos. In the Hakhel year of 5748 there was a special siyum seifer Torah that took place in 770 that week. It was a seifer Torah donated by shluchim around the world, in honor of the memory of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka who had just passed away the previous month. During the Farbrengen on Shabbos, the Rebbe spoke of the significance of the Siyum Seifer Torah and connected it to the year of Hakhel.
