Parshas Tzav – Cleaning the Altar
The clothing the cohen wore while cleaning the Altar.
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Parshas Tzav – The Offering of the Poor Man
When bringing an offering to G-d, the main thing is not the size of the animal, but giving it your all.
Where Am I?
Reb Hillel of Paritch once said: “Lubavitch is a holy ‘Kaf HaKela[1].’ One is flung from here to there and one does not know in which world they are even in.” (Likutei Sipurim, Pg....
The Bitter Truth
In one of the talks of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitchak Schneersohn, he once repeated an exchange that took place between the holy chossid, Reb Michale Apotzker and his student, Reb Shmuel...
Help to Forget
When the holy chassid, Reb Michael Apotzker was a young man, he studied various works of Jewish Philosophy. Many years later, after he became a chossid, he regretted learning these works. He complained to...
Slay the Dragon
A thought about prayer:[1] The Zohar (Tikunei Zohar 13) states: “Rabbi Shimon opened: The heavens are preparing for war against this serpent who resides in the great mountains. He killed the first man and...
A Cycle of Love
An Interesting thought from Reb Tzadok: When you love Israel, Israel loves you back. When you love the Torah, the Torah loves you back. Both of them reveal to their lover, their deepest secrets[1]....
Rebirth, Equinox and Eclipse
By Rabbi Dovid Markel This Shabbos, in addition to reading the regular parsha, the portion of “HaChodesh,” which describes Nissan as the first month on the Jewish calendar, is read as well. The...
Chassidus During Work
The great chossid, Reb Binyomen Kletzker, was called thus because he worked in the sale of logs (the Yiddish word for log being “klotz”). Once, when he was attending to a shipment at the banks...
Haughtiness and Accomplishment
The following is a thought from Reb Tzadok of Lublin on the subject of humility. He expresses that haughtiness is actually an expression of lack of accomplishment, as opposed to the other way around[1]....
