Q. Every summer over the past few years I begin worrying about the upcoming High-Holiday season. It’s not that I have a problem going to my mother-in-law. Not at all. Let me explain:
In 1939, the Jewish population in Eretz Yisrael found themselves in a perplexing situation. They had two powerful enemies.
Most innovative and “independent” of predecessors, yet visibly attached to them, particularly to the Previous Rebbe, more than any of his predecessors were to the generation before them.
The famous Chassid, Reb Zalman Moshe HaYitzchaki, was not known as someone who was particularly stringent about using only “clean language.” His juicy farbrengens were interwoven with a wide range of choice words dedicated to the Yezer Hara and his allies. Words that the average person would refrain from saying, to say the least…
One of the customs of the month of Elul is to check tefillin and mezuzos. The following is an amazing story about this.
August 29, 2019