Final Instalment * After going through three additional incarnations without correcting their inequities, apparently there is no hope for the extremely wicked … but Rashbi outlines a process of further correction to ultimately achieve closeness to G-d.
How surprising can it be to open an envelope of letters collected over the years? It’s nice to go down memory lane and recall special moments, to reread blessings from the Rebbe, to relive the events in diaries describing years of learning in the Rebbe’s mosdos.
The Rebbe writes in the HaYom Yom 24 Elul: “There was a time when every word that one heard was a teaching, and every event that one saw was a directive for one’s Divine service and personal guidance.” This is true regarding anything we hear or see; how much more so for a chassidic teaching or saying that we learn or hear.
The Rebbe writes in the HaYom Yom 24 Elul: “There was a time when every word that one heard was a teaching, and every event that one saw was a directive for one’s Divine service and personal guidance.” This is true regarding anything we hear or see; how much more so for a chassidic teaching or saying that we learn or hear.
How did the Rebbe respond when he passed the mitzva tank blasting the song about how we will march with the Rebbe at our head? * Why did the Rebbe not enter the cemetery at the funeral of Reb Shmuel Levitin, and who did he instruct to enter? * When did the Rebbe start the practice of distributing dollars through the “Tankistin” at the end of weekday farbrengens? * Letters home, written by R’ Tuvia Zilberstrom during his k’vutza year, describing some of the events of Elul 5734 in 770, with the Rebbe. * Plus some choice pearls from the recollections of R’ Dovid Offen from that same period.
Presented for Chai Elul, birthday of the Baal Shem Tov
Chassidim say that the reason 15 Elul is considered the day of the founding of Tomchei T’mimim, even though the learning began on the 18th of Elul, is because the kitchen of the yeshiva opened on the 15th.
Around forty-three years have passed since the following Heavenly story happened. Apparently it has never been told until now.
August 31, 2018