Never Alone
Someone who has a true friend is never alone. This is so even when a distance of thousands of miles separate them. For, in the face of love, there are no boundaries or distance....
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Speak To A Friend
There are various advantages to discussing one’s faults with a good friend: There are certain things that an individual cannot see because they are blinded by self-love. When one speaks to their friend, these...
A Different Story
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the first Chabad Rebbe, would himself serve as the reader of the Megilah of Esther in his synagogue, on the holiday of Purim. After he passed away, his son Rabbi...
Hear The Cry
By Rabbi Dovid Markel Once, a halachik query concerning the kosher status of a certain lung was brought before the first Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. After examining the lung, the...
Parshas Terumah – Make Me a Sanctuary
The Mishkan as a microcosm for G-d’s intent in creation.
Parshas Terumah – HaShem’s love for Israel
How the Cherubim expressed G-d’s love for the Jewish people.
Searching For Truth
In a private audience with the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneersohn, a chossid once bemoaned: “I am lacking truth. Everything I do in my service to the Creator is untruthful. Not only that, but even...
A False Truth
The Medrash (Tanchuma, Korach, 11) states, that after the debacle with Korach his children repented. They exclaimed: “Moshe is true, his Torah is true, and we are deceitful.” Chassidim would explain that their statement,...
Twenty-One Years For Truth
The great tzaddik Reb Pinchas of Koritz worked on the character trait of truthfulness for twenty-one years. For seven years he labored to remove himself from lying, another seven years to recognize what truth was,...
Parshas Mishpatim – The Greatest Lie
By Rabbi Dovid Markel This week’s parsha expresses the prohibition against lying. The Torah states (Shemos, 23:17): “Distance yourself from a false matter.” In the directive against falsehood, the Torah urges the individual...
