Monday
Sep132021
DARKNESS IMPLODING
September 13, 2021Darkness implodes into light. * T’filla, d’veikus to Hashem, is a frequency that transcends conflict. * The ultimate peace of Moshiach, Prince of Peace.
Entries in Pesach (56)
Wednesday
Mar242021
NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR OPINION!
Today “opinions” are shutdown and cancelled, sources ignored. The only debate is “who does this guy think he is?!” * Pesach is honest about who attends and what motivates them (the Four Sons) and has us remember who is absent (the Fifth).
Thursday
Apr182019
DE-MONSTERING THE DEFIANT SON
As the 80% were dying and being buried, 20% were plotting a map to vast treasures they would plunder. If a slave has the chance to amass a fortune and be led out of captivity by G-d Himself, why would anyone not want to be a part of it? * At least the Defiant Son is at the table. In some respect, he wants to be convinced…
Thursday
Apr182019
What’s the Problem with Machine Matzah?
Matzah was traditionally always made meticulously by people, with extreme care to keep clean, and so to ensure the finest kosher matzos.
Thursday
Apr182019
THE BEST SEDER OF ALL
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Jacobson and Rabbi Moshe Lieberman were asked, long ago, to travel to Japan to lead a seder for the Jews there.
Thursday
Apr112019
Thursday
Apr112019
SEDER NIGHT IN EXILE
Many Chassidim were killed, imprisoned or exiled, for the “crime” of spreading Judaism, but they kept on going. One such Chassid was Rabbi Refael Nachman Kahn, known as R’ Fole. He was a loyal soldier of the Rebbe. Then came his turn and he was brought to prison in the year 5690/1930.
Wednesday
Apr102019
Monday
Mar262018
PREPARING FOR PESACH ON SHLICHUS
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
Monday
Mar262018
THE TORAH SPEAKS IN RESPONSE TO FOUR SONS
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.
Monday
Mar262018
AN INSPIRING PESACH WITH THE REBBE
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.