Parshat Ki Teitzei – The Secret of Levirate Marriage
A deeper dimension to the levirate marriage.
Author: Editor
Parshat Shoftim – Is Observing Rabbinic Rulings a Torah Mitzvah?
While many people thing that rabbinic ruling are merely human add-ons, we are actually commanded in the Torah to follow them.
The 15th of Elul – The Establishment of Tomchei T’mimim
By Rabbi Akiva Wagner The Alter Rebbe once remarked: “Der vos vet onhalten mein klamke, vet nisht shtarben ohn Tshuva” [whoever grasps my doorknob, is assured that he will not pass away from...
Elul – The King Is In The Field
By Rabbi Akiva Wagner Rabbi Reuven Dunin of blessed memory was a one-of-a-kind Chassid, shliach, and mashpia (chassidic mentor)—Someone truly unique. He made his first acquaintance with Chabad when he walked into the study hall...
Traveling To The Rebbe
By Rabbi Akiva Wagner Rabbi Yossi Zaltzman, shliach of the Rebbe to the Russian Jews of Toronto, shared the following story about his grandfather, R’ Avrohom Zaltzman, at a recent farbrengen: R’ Avremel...
Parshat Shoftim – A Little Less Worldly
By Rabbi Akiva Wagner The following story I once read in the sefer “Likuttei Sipurim” of Rabbi Mottel Perlow. However, some time has passed since then, and my sefer has since disappeared, so...
The Knowledge of G-d – Table of Contents
Click here to download a PDF of this book. This book is an excellent introduction to the entire system of Kabbalah, in a way of comprehension and understanding. Part one explains the Kabbalistic System...
The Knowledge Of G-D – 1:1
Part One: Seder Hishtalshelut It is clear that there is a force which enlivens the body. The external body itself is nothing more than an inanimate vessel which contains and is animated by...
The Knowledge Of G-D – 1:2
From the above, it is understood that there must be a soul which animates and enlivens the physical body. Now, just as this is so in man, who is a microcosm, likewise, in the...
The Knowledge Of G-D – 1:3
We concluded above that the universe and everything in it, including the human body, appears to have an animating force within it to enliven it, and that without this force it would be nothing...
