Parshas Shemini – The Number Eight
The significance of the number eight.
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Parshas Shemini – Silence – Aaron’s Great Virtue
The virtue of silence.
The Generation of Moshiach
The late Rav of Kfar Chabad, Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ashkanazai, once told the following anecdote that he heard from the Chassidic mentor, Rabbi Mendel Futerfas, in the name of the holy Reb Zev Volf...
Shabbos HaGadol – A Great Miracle
By Rabbi Dovid Markel This Shabbos, that which precedes Pesach, is referred to as “Shabbos HaGadol”—The Great Shabbos. While there are various reasons that are postulated as to why this particular Shabbos is...
Abaye and Rava
Once, during the lifetime of the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel, there was a certain chossid of his who made his livelihood through buying forests and selling their lumber. The primary season for...
A Proper Kohen
The chassidic mentor in Tomchei Temim, Reb Shmuel Gronem Estherman, once recalled the following story: It was the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi’s custom to read the Torah be the one to...
A Focal Difference
An essential difference between chassidus and philosophy.
Sensing My Thoughts
The chossid, Rabbi Eliyahu Yosef Rivlin, was one of the great chassidim of the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch. It was even said about him that he possessed Ruach HaKodesh (Divine...
Proper Love
The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, wrote the following in a Chassidic discourse: A person must have a penchant in loving his fellow. When a one meets his fellow, he asks him,...
One Family
The fourth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch once told his son, the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer, the following: The Alter Rebbe sacrificed his holy soul and invested his tremendous energies so...
