Shalom Aleichem or Lech Leshalom
The difference in greeting of today and yesteryear.
Category: Farbrengens
Elections and Slichot
By Rabbi Akiva Wagner It’s that time again. There’s an election on the horizon, and the various candidates of the various parties are trying to convince the American people that they would make...
Parshat Korach – The Third of Tammuz and Korach
By Rabbi Dovid Markel This Shabbos marks the 21st anniversary of the physical passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. It is apropos that this week’s Torah portion as well teaches...
A Humble Leader
The essence of the Rebbe’s leadership was not what many would suppose.
Become the Rebbe
We need to cease defining ourselves with superficial definitions that conceal our true identity and embrace the vision that the Rebbe desires of us.
Unification, Ascents and the Coming of Moshiach
Moshiach told the Bal Shem Tov that moshiach will come when we can unite G-d like he was able. How can this be possible?
Parshas Terumah – Above Nature
By Rabbi Akiva Wagner R’ Getzel Rubashkin was a chassidishe Yid, who displayed mesirus nefesh in Russia to uphold the torch of Yiddishkeit. When he came to America he continued to be a...
The Spiritual Ice Bucket Challenge
By Rabbi Akiva Wagner The year was 5746 (1985). I was a young bochur, learning in Yeshivas Ohr Elchonon, Chabad, in Los Angeles. Our means of staying in touch with Beis Chayenu was via a...
Gimmel Tammuz – The Revolution
A fabrengen about Gimmel Tamuz from Rabbi Akiva Wagner.
The Para Aduma – Are You Really Rational?
By Rabbi Akiva Wagner In a few weeks, on the 4th of Nissan, will be the yahrtzeit of my father R’ Refoel Menachem Nochum ben R’ Yitzchak Eizik z”l. Among other things, my father...
