Thursday
Feb182016
THIS IS IT!
February 18, 2016Each person points with his finger and says “this”: This is Moshiach Tzidkeinu. This is the Rebbe! * From Chapter Five of Rabbi Shloma Majeski’s Likkutei Mekoros Vol. 2.
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Thursday
Feb182016
THE FUTURE OF DIVERSITY AND DEMOGRAPHIC INCLUSION
In this week’s Torah portion we learn about the commandments of building the Mishkan and its’ vessels as well as the garments of the Kohanim and the Kohen Gadol. The commandment to build the Mishkan is an eternal one, as the main commandment is to build a home for Hashem inside each and every Jew. As our sages say on the Pasuk (Truma 25:8) “And they shall make Me a sanctuary and I will dwell in their midst,” “The verse does not say, ‘and I will dwell within it,’ but ‘and I will dwell within them,’ within each and every one of them.”
Thursday
Feb182016
SHLICHUS AT THIRTY BELOW ZERO
The East Coast of the US has just pulled out of a major blizzard and Eretz Yisroel and Europe have been grappling with cold and nasty weather. Beis Moshiach went to see how shluchim deal with ongoing freezing weather. R’ Zalman Zaklos, shliach and rav of the city Novosibirsk, told us of Chassidic life in the Siberian cold. How do they get used to extreme cold? How do they draw people out of their homes when it is minus forty outside? And how do the locals prevent their car engines from freezing?
Thursday
Feb182016
HISKASHRUS AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL
One of the special things about the Ohr Menachem school for girls in Tzfas is how they are taught to connect to the Rebbe through writing to him via the Igros Kodesh. This starts with the principal, Mrs. Nechama Navon, continues with the staff of supervisors and teachers, and on to the parents and students themselves. * How is this done? What positive influence does this have? How do the professionals from the Education Ministry react? * An interview with Mrs. Navon
Thursday
Feb182016
SOLDIER AND LAMPLIGHTER
R’ Yisroel Yitzchok Zalmanov was the secretary of the Vaad of Kfar Chabad, he served in the navy, he was a shochet and one of the first settlers in Kfar Chabad, and one of the first activists in Tzeirei Chabad in Eretz Yisroel. Every night he walked the streets of the Kfar and lit the streetlights, demonstrating to all who saw him the aphorism, “A Chassid is a lamplighter.” * Presented to mark his passing on 10 Adar I
Thursday
Feb182016
A PANACEA FOR THE BITACHON-CHALLENGED
Among the directives that the Rebbe gave us in the area of strengthening Bitachon in Hashem was the instruction to study abundant Chassidus. There were those who the Rebbe instructed to study Shaar HaBitachon, some were directed to learn Chapter 23 in T ’hillim, others were advised to contemplate the content of the beginning of Chapter 41 in Tanya, and still others were told to meditate on the concept of Hashem’s Hashgacha Pratis and of Hashem’s kindness
Thursday
Feb182016
MY IMA
Join us on a captivating journey, crossing continents and generations. * We will travel from Chevron to Lubavitch, observe hiskashrus and bravery during the war and the revolution. * We will learn about giving, about bracha and purity. * In a touching interview, Rebbetzin Sima Ashkenazi talks about her mother, Mrs. Yaffa Wolpo a”h
Thursday
Feb182016
TRANSCENDING TRANSCENDENCE
The Kohen Gadol was required to wear eight priestly garments. One of them was the tzitz, a golden plate, placed on the High Priest’s forehead, on which was engraved the words “Holy to G-d.”
Thursday
Feb182016
THE BREAKOUT YEAR FOR CHABAD IN MELBOURNE
The year 5717 was a breakthrough year for the Lubavitch schools in Melbourne. In earlier chapters we read about the efforts to open Beis Rivka even before Rosh HaShana, and in the coming chapters we will hear about the development of the new school for girls.
Thursday
Feb182016
THE LOST BROTHER
There was tremendous excitement in the Grabovsky home in the Ukraine. Suitcases were piled in the living room and the driver outside was beeping, waiting for Vladimir to come out. The parents tearfully said goodbye and wished him luck in Eretz Yisroel.