TWO FLIGHTS, TWO LESSONS

As Chassidim, we are taught to write to the Rebbe about every special plan and to ask for his bracha. When we ask the Rebbe for a bracha in a certain matter, of course we need to be prepared to accept whatever the Rebbe says, even if the answer is not in line with our plans. At the same time, it is very important not to draw conclusions on one’s own, but to consult with your mashpia, with the belief that the Rebbe conveys the right guidance through him

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THE WILD BOYS AND THE THIRD ARREST OF THE REBBE RAYATZ

It was a Friday, the first of Teves 5666/1905, the seventh day of Chanuka. It was market day in Lubavitch. Farmers and cattlemen from all the surrounding villages gathered in the main market to buy and sell calves and cows, horses and chickens, along with produce and general merchandise.

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THE LONG SHABBOS WALK HEARD AROUND THE WORLD

In a restaurant near the Marina Roscha shul sat dozens of bachurim from Tomchei T’mimim in Ohr Yehuda. They were there with their fathers and farbrenging with their teachers and rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Sholom Ber Hendel. There were niggunim and words of chizuk to prepare them for their trip to the Rebbe. This took place this past winter.

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THE HUGE DEMAND FOR TORAH SCROLLS IN RUSSIA

In contrast to the cold weather that night in Moscow, in the small but pleasant restaurant near the Marina Roscha shul, the atmosphere was particularly warm. Dozens of bachurim from Yeshivas Tomchei T’mimim in Ohr Yehuda sat together with their fathers and farbrenged with the yeshiva’s teachers and the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Hendel. They sang one niggun after another and then another inspirational talk, by way of preparing them for their trip to the Rebbe.

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THE REBBETZIN’S CANDIES

R’ Amram Malka is a well-known figure among Anash of Rishon L’Tziyon. He was born in Morocco to a large family numbering thirteen children. During the 1950’s, at the height of the second wave of aliya, he came with his family to Eretz Yisroel. In 5718, he joined the Talmud Torah that was a branch of the Tomchei T’mimim yeshiva in the Pardes in Lud. Afterward, he continued his studies in the yeshiva in Kfar Chabad, and before the New Year 5726 he traveled to the Rebbe for his K’vutza year.

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THE THIRD QUESTION

Presented for 24 Teves, when the Alter Rebbe passed away

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FIREFIGHTER – ADIR MENACHEM MENDEL

Adir Naim is the spokesman for the Israeli fire department in the southern region. He is a firefighter who spent a week fighting the recent fires in Eretz Yisroel. His friends and relatives only know him by his first name, Adir, but he has two additional names: Menachem Mendel. * Between putting out fires and updating the press, Adir told Beis Moshiach about the story of his miraculous birth thirty-six years ago.

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SIBERIAN CHANUKA LIGHTS

The Chassid R’ Mordechai Chanzin was arrested three times in his life. The first time he was imprisoned for ten years, the second time for five years, and the third time for six years. Altogether, he spent twenty-one years in prison, labor camps and various exiles, from 5695 until 5716. Then he was released.

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THE POWER OF THE DAY

Upon the Alter Rebbe’s release from prison, Chassidim rejoiced. Wherever the news reached, the day was established as a holiday. The tension and fear that the Chassidim lived with while waiting for the results of the interrogation disappeared, to be replaced with sighs of relief.

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KIDDUSH LEVANA IN A GERMAN ACCENT

The Rebbe’s beis midrash is crowded, even though the thousands of guests who packed the room during Tishrei already went home. There are still the Chassidim who live in Crown Heights and they are gathered for the Rebbe’s weekly Shabbos farbrengen.

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THE T’KIOS BABY

A couple who lived in Eretz Yisroel longed for children. It was already a number of years since they married and they were still childless. All their visits to doctors only caused them to despair even more because the doctors were pessimistic.

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THE STORY OF THE FEARLESS PRINCIPAL

This year the new school year began in Eretz Yisroel for the religious schools and the public schools at around the same time. This is somewhat anomalous, as the religious schools start on Rosh Chodesh Elul while the secular schools begin around September 1, which, in most years, are several weeks apart.

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THE TZADDIK WHO YEARNED CONSTANTLY FOR THE GEULA

Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, the “Yismach Moshe” (1759-1841), from the town of Ujhely, was the progenitor of the Satmar and Sighet dynasties. All his life centered on yearning for the Geula and the coming of Moshiach. He was not diverted from this for a moment.

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