This is something that the Rebbe can demand and deliver – that there should be the revelation of “The Mikdash of the L-rd; He has established it with His hands” in 770. * Chapter Nine of Rabbi Shloma Majeski’s Likkutei Mekoros
During the Three Weeks, when we try to increase our Ahavas Yisroel, Beis Moshiach arranged a moving meeting between Kobi Chai, a kidney recipient from northern Tel Aviv, and Menachem Bakosh, kidney donor and Chabad Chassid. * The two of them told about the process, the surgeries, and their feelings about it all
We find that this is not the common custom. What is the halachic justification for not immersing them? * Selected halachos from the “One Minute Halacha” project
In recent years, he has starred as a “rebbe” or rabbi in various films, but if you look at R’ Meilich Tal, a Lubavitcher from Natzrat Ilit, you would never imagine that his life story is as long and fascinating as it is. It began on an isolated farm in South Africa and continued as a life journey on an unpaved road until he got to join the Chabad family
Late Shabbos afternoon on 3 Tammuz, the Chabad community in B’nei Brak gathered in the old, central Chabad shul on Rashi Street, to farbreng. The shul was packed and the Chassidim listened closely to the rav, Rabbi Yitzchok Belinov, who spoke about the significance of the day and hiskashrus to the Rebbe through learning his teachings and fulfilling his instructions.
“These are the words which Moshe spoke to all Israel, on the other side of the Jordan, in the wilderness, in the Arava, opposite the Red Sea, between Paran and Tophel, and Lavan and Chatzeiros and Di Zahav.”
The lively and cheerful music stopped with an abrupt, sharp bang on the drum. Dancers took the moment to chat amiably. Dina stood in the now broken circle, watching her former classmate Chava laugh heartily. With a tug at her heart she recalled miserably that that ’s how it had always been. Chava. Popular Chava. The heart of the party, charming, fun, well-liked Chava
Dr. Joseph Rosen: “If you really want the religious work to amount to anything, it must be somebody’s business to push it along and I do not know of anybody who could do it as well as Rabbi Schneerson” * Rabbi Dr. Meir Hildesheimer: “Rabbi Schneerson has an excellent supervision over every distributor, knows every city, town and hamlet … I consider it highly desirable that the direction remain in his hands, and that the moneys continue to be distributed from Riga” * Dr. Bernard Kahn: “There seems to be no other way, but to send the money through Rabbi Schneerson as heretofore” * Part II
“I have a surprise for you,” Abba called out as he hid the package behind his back.
August 10, 2016