Like an Animal
The first chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, once had a conversation with an individual that was known to be a great Torah scholar with exemplary character traits. In the conversation the Rebbe...
Category: meditations
A Match and A Coal
A lit match, when blown on even slightly, is extinguished. However, with a coal, the more that one blows on it, the greater the fire becomes. The reason for this being, that with the match...
Thinking About G-d
A chossid once boasted of the manner in which he serves G-d, to the 4th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch: “I learn Chassidus prior to prayer, I contemplate on chassidic concepts during prayer...
Fooling a Fool
The second Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi DovBer of Lubavitch once remarked: “An individual that does not work to improve his service of G-d in an internal way and is instead complacent in the manner which...
The Ladder
Once, a mentor for young chassidim, asked the following question: “Who is higher, the person on the 5th rung of a ladder, or the 3rd?” He continued to answer the question himself: If the...
Love and Duty
The third Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch once said: “Every Jew must ‘pay his debt’ to G-d with the fulfillment of the mitzvos that He commanded. However, an individual who loves G-d,...
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....
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...
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...
