Category: meditations

Once, the 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer, told an individual in a private audience:[1] “Just as a Jew must lay tefillin daily, so too, it is necessary that each day he contemplate who...

Once, the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, expressed:[1] “The smallest of mistakes in one’s service of G-d can lead to the greatest of deficiencies.” [1] Likutei Dibburim, Vol. 2 Pg. 696

Beating our chests in confession.

An explanation to the concept of voluntary compulsion expressed in the Yom Kippur prayers.

In the Yom Kippur prayers, we ask G-d that he forgive us for “the sin that we committed by compulsion and voluntarily.” While the simple meaning of this statement is that it discusses two...

Once, a student in Tomchei Temim, asked his chassidic mentor the following question:[1] “In Tanya[2] is enumerated two methods how to rectify sin: There is fasting, for someone who is physically robust, and charity,...

Chassidim would recount in the name of the first Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the manner that an individual is to regret sinning.

Once, the 3rd Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, said:[1] “An individual with a sense of imagination is much sooner to repent than an person lacking such a sense.” [1] Likutei Dibburim, Vol....

The previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, enumerated five distinct times for Teshuva—each to rectify another aspect of the individual:[1] The month of Elul: The person rectifies the garments of the soul—thought, speech...