Friday
Aug162019
A Wondrous Kinus Hashluchim
August 16, 2019לד. קטעים משיחות ש”פ ואתחנן, שבת נחמו, ט”ז מנחם-אב ה’תנש”א (1) 34. 16 Menachem-Av, 5751 − July 27, 1991 (1)
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Friday
Aug162019
THOUGHT IS A MISNAGED: DANCE OUT OF EXILE
On the 15th of Av, the girls of Jerusalem would go out to dance in the vineyards in search of their soulmates. The Mishna relates (Taanis 4:8): “There were no greater days of joy for the Jewish people” (other than Yom Kippur, its equal, when the Second Tablets were given – a veritable marriage contract between G-d and the Jewish people – as well as the day we achieve atonement).
Friday
Aug162019
Your Wife Should Notice You Care…
The Rebbe’s handwritten response to a husband who asked for a bracha regarding his wife’s health
Friday
Aug162019
Should Tefillin Straps be Painted Black on Both Sides?
A collection of relevant halachos regarding the Mitzvah of Tefillin mentioned in Parshas Vaeschanan from AskTheRav.com & Halacha2Go.com. by Yosef Yeshaya Braun, Mara D’asra and member of the Crown Heights Beis Din
Friday
Aug162019
Seven Facts And Figures About Reb Levik
Presented in honor of 75 years since the Histalkus
Friday
Aug162019
The Rebbe’s Archivist
In a rare interview, Rabbi Sholom Mendel Simpson, the Rebbe’s secretary, told Beis Moshiach among other things about his work in the Rebbe’s letter-archive and about publishing them in the Igros Kodesh
Friday
Aug162019
15 Menachem Av: The Power of Dance
Life is synonymous with movement. Death is when this movement comes to a halt.
Friday
Aug162019
Adjusting to Life Without Enemies
There was a long feud in a community I’m associated with, and one morning, I woke up with the news that the almost decade-old dispute was peacefully and respectfully settled.
Friday
Aug162019
Are we married The Human Way?
Marriage is indeed a mystery. It is the oldest institution ever practiced by mankind and the thousands of years it has been in practice have given us little to no experience in how to conduct our own marital lives.
Friday
Aug162019
DOING THAT EXTRA LITTLE SOMETHING
I remember when my parents, of blessed memory, once joined us up in Plainville, New York for a visit, we wanted to show them something very pretty – but it was a twenty-minute walk uphill. All of the family’s generations were there – my husband and myself, our children and grandchildren who were much younger in those days, and my parents.
Friday
Aug162019
“Will You Let A Reform Rabbi Officiate At the Gala Wedding?”
That was the question a group of wealthy Jewish donors asked 25-year-old shliach, Rabbi Mottel Kanelsky at a parlor meeting to benefit Bris Avrohom’s Gala
Friday
Aug162019
He alone and nothing else
A central theme in Parshas Vaeschanan is the commandment of Achdus Hashem — the absolute oneness of G-d. The primary sources on this essential topic, in-fact, one of the principles of the Jewish faith, are included within the parsha. First, there is the famous passuk of “You shall know this day and consider it in your heart, that Hashem, He is G-d, in the heavens above, and upon the earth below; there is none else.” Then, there is the even more famous pasuk of Shema Yisrael, declaring that “Hashem is our G-d, Hashem is One.”
Friday
Aug162019
The Inevitability Principle
The inevitability principle in politics is the fallacy that once democracy takes hold in an area, it will continue to flourish and spread. Democracies do not go backwards, or so the theory goes. Once people have tasted freedom, and have the education and resources to enjoy it, they will never want to go backwards. They will never slide back into authoritarianism or totalitarianism. No matter how dire things get, they will always work out somehow.