Beis Moshiach presents a translation of the second half of the Sicha that was said by the Rebbe on the 5th of Nisan 5747. The Sicha explains that a Nasi is eternal not only in the spiritual sense but in the physical world as well, and that this concept is eternalized every year during the first 12/13 days of Nisan when we recite the portion of the Nasi each day. PART II
You work hard to prepare for Pesach. Have you ever thought about what it’s like to prepare to host hundreds of people, without a microphone, and all that food? When do the preparations begin (“the previous Motzaei Pesach”)? How are the Chabad hiddurim and chumros observed in places where people don’t even know the basic laws of Pesach? * These questions and others were asked of four young shluchim in distant countries, who took time off between their busy activities to tell us how it works
Beis Moshiach presents a recent talk by Rabbi Reuven Wolf, shliach in Los Angeles, delivered to the students of B’nos Menachem in Crown Heights.
We are now during the time of S’firas HaOmer, when we should be working on our Middos. It is a time of refinement and much inner reflection about whom we are and where we should be heading. The Rebbe writes (HaYom Yom 24 Nissan): “Everyone has in him something not so good. Sending the goat to Azazel was one of the services in the Beis HaMikdash. Since something not good exists within a human being, it must be banished to ‘an uninhabited place.’”
R’ Binyamin Braun lives in Munich, Germany, speaks four languages, was a business success to the tune of many millions, and left it all to learn in yeshiva at age forty. * Today, among his many activities, he spreads Judaism and Chassidus, and chooses to confront the rising trend of Neo-Nazism head on. One of the ways that he does so is by his now yearly tradition of lighting the fifth Chanuka light in the Odeonsplatz in the heart of Munich, in the exact place where the wicked mass murderer, may his name be blotted out, stood and fired up one and a half million Germans against the Jews.
Is the Tam a sincere simple person or someone who plays dumb? * Is the Chacham a “talmid chacham” or a wiseguy? * Probably, the “One Who does not know how to Ask” knows good and well about business and politics, so what happens to him on Pesach? * Is it possible that the main recounting of the Hagada is directed at the Wicked Son? * Understanding the depth behind the Four Sons who sit at the seder table, based on sichos and maamarim of the Rebbeim.
A marvelous description of Pesach and the days preceding it, from the diary of Rabbi Tuvia Zilberstrom, rav of the Chabad shul in Shikkun Chabad in Yerushalayim.
One of the hymns sung by many at the end of the Seder is Chad Gadya. Although it is not included in the Chabad version of the Hagada, it is nevertheless considered to be a holy hymn with deep symbolic and spiritual overtones.
The Friday before Shabbos Parshas Tzav, Shabbos HaGadol 5775/1915, the streets of Yekaterinoslav were bustling as usual, filled with people hurrying to work. It was only among the Jewish populace that a holiday atmosphere prevailed, in the form of an inner celebration with no formal means of expression as on a traditional Jewish holiday.
An atmosphere of feverish preparations, as always, envelops us all, from the moment the date of Yud-Alef Nissan appears on the horizon. An ever-growing inner sense of seriousness and honesty gets progressively stronger and soon, numerous ideas and plans are presented to Chassidim and mekusharim towards the goal of properly utilizing this holy day.
Forty years ago, there were not many shluchim of the Rebbe. The few Chabad Houses in Eretz Yisroel were manned by Chassidim who commuted from the large religious centers. The concept of “going on shlichus” in Eretz Yisroel, was far less popular.
March 26, 2018