A Partner In The Dynamic of Creation - One day in the 1770s, when the classical Torah underpinnings of the fledgling chassidic movement were not yet widely known, the Alter Rebbe, with self-effacing dignity, ascended the tall pulpit in the cold synagogue of Shklov, a major bastion of Lithuanian erudition
A Prince in Prison - It was the author, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch, who spearheaded the underground Jewish resistance to Stalin's ideological Final Solution - and paid for it by brutal incarceration and a capital sentence. From this he was miraculously liberated on Yud-Beis Tammuz, 1927, exactly 70 years ago
As A Little Child - Yahshua said "Verily I say unto you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 18:3)
Picture little children you know and observe
Basi L'Gani - The 10th day of Shvat marks the day of the ascendancy to leadership of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Shlita, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson.
The Previous Rebbe of Saintly memory wrote a four-part series of chassidic discourses (a hemshech of maamarim) based on the verse from Shir Hashirim, "I have come into My garden, My sister, My bride
Birthday Reflections & Celebrations - During the months of Adar, Nissan and Iyar of 5748 the Rebbe, Shlita, devoted many of his Sichos (talks) to the potential religious importance of birthday celebrations
Branches Of The Chassidic Menorah - Below, we present an excerpt from a letter by the Rebbe Shlita written to one of his rabbinic sons-in-law, referring to the essay "Fathers of Chassidus," which he wrote while he resided in Marienbad. [The letter is dated] 23 Menachem Av 5691 [August 6, 1931].
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