Incredibly, when he returned from there, his father, the Rebbe nishmaso Eden, asked him whether the cell was spacious enough to contain three people. His query proves that their visit was in the form of physical bodies
Many know Rabbi Boaz Kali, the dynamic Lubavitcher askan, member of the hanhala of Chabad mosdos in Kiryat Shmuel and director of the Matteh Sheva Mitzvos B’nei Noach, but few know about the difficult challenge that he has been contending with these past few years. * For the first time, R’ Kali tells about the terrible disease that attacked him twice.
The Torah enjoins us against tormenting an eved ivri (Jewish slave) with avodas perech (backbreaking labor); this includes giving the slave avoda sh’ein lah kitzvah (work with no discernible end), or work that serves no real purpose other than keeping him occupied. This raises the question whether an employer who sees that his employees are idling may assign them pointless work in order to keep them busy; does the prohibition of avodas perech apply in a work environment as well?
When Leah, Jacob’s first wife, gives birth to her fourth son she names him Yehudah because, she says, “this time I will thank [Odeh] G-d.”
This Shabbos is the Shabbos before 9-10 Kislev, the birthday, yahrtzait and Chag HaGeula of the Mitteler Rebbe.
The district rabbi who was circumcised moments before his flight to New York, the Yugoslavian soldier who accosted a rabbi and was later killed al kiddush Hashem, a bris in a forsaken village in the Himalayas, and a medical miracle for a baby in the emergency room. The victory of a traditional grandfather over the communist mother seventy years after the war and a silver cup that was returned after nearly 100 years. The missionary witch from Beer Sheva and the surprising revelation in her parents’ home. * Rabbi Yaron Amit, director of Bris Yosef Yitzchok, which does brissin around the world, shares some extraordinary stories about brissin and mohalim with mesirus nefesh
The fascinating story of Dr. Mordechai Menachem Mendel Glazman, the first doctor to examine the Rebbe the night of Shmini Atzeres 5738
Every year, thousands of Israelis walk the Israel National Trail, which starts at Kibbutz Dan in the north and goes south all the way to the Taba border crossing near Eilat. It includes historical sites and extraordinary natural phenomena. * As in every corner of the world, here too, the Rebbe’s shluchim wait for them and graciously offer full room and board, combined with spiritual comforts.
November 21, 2017