It’s important to remember that the mitzva to teach a child Torah is the father’s obligation. It’s a Biblical mitzva as it says, “and you shall teach your children.” Being that this is so, the father is granted special abilities to accomplish this.
The Aseres HaDibros (Ten Commandments) which appear twice in the Torah, once in this week’s Torah portion and once in the portion of VaEschanan, enable us to synthesize the intense G-dly revelation with the characteristics of human nature. * How do we train bachurim to love the study of Torah? What is the difference between someone who is a “Chassid” or is “Chassidic”? What is the difference between having a “mashpia” and “asei lecha rav”? And how are these questions related to the repetition of the Aseres HaDibros?
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.
They are women in their thirties who are already mothers to dozens of bachurim. Meet women who have devoted their lives to T’mimim living far from home. Their role combines work and modeling family life under the umbrella of a unique shlichus
Shaked Meiner was drafted into the undercover counter-terrorism unit Duvdevan and operated past enemy lines with a sense of mission on behalf of the Jewish people. * But his soul yearned for a spiritual mission, and after searching in India, he became a baal teshuva. This time, he enlisted in the elite unit of the Rebbe’s Geula army. * Like Avrohom Avinu, he calls upon young people to join the yeshiva he started for baalei teshuva in the Romema neighborhood of Yerushalayim, so they can recognize the One who created the world.
On a spacious campus in the heart of the old city of Beer Sheva, far from the tumult of the city, sit dozens of bachurim diligently learning Torah. * This is the Chabad yeshiva in Beer Sheva, a small, quality institution for diligence, Ahavas Yisroel, and the study of Nigleh and Chassidus. * Our Beis Moshiach correspondent went south to visit the yeshiva and was favorably impressed by the serious learning atmosphere, the educational approach, the devotion of the staff, by the high gashmius level, and mainly by the love of the talmidim for the yeshiva.
Two brothers, R’ Akiva Wagner – rosh yeshiva in Toronto, and R’ Noam Wagner – rosh yeshiva in Johannesburg, meet once a year for a week at the Rebbe. * R’ Sholom Yaakov Chazan and Avrohom Rainitz interviewed them for Beis Moshiach’s Sukkos issue, in the course of which the roshei yeshiva provided an edifying view of what it means to be devoted to the Rebbe, the inner work needed in inyanei Moshiach, and about the hiskashrus of bachurim today
October 15, 2019