Category: meditations

Yom Kippur - Prayer 0

The Cry of a Jew

Once, the 4th Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch, remarked:[1] “When on Rosh HaShana a Jew sighs or cries on his sorry physical position, whether concerning health of livelihood—this is ‘Teshuva I’la-ah.’” Though externally...

Tomchei Temimim 0

Different Challenges

By Rabbi Dovid Markel   Once, in a private audience that the Chassidic mentor, Reb Nissan Neminov had with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Rebbe enumerated three stages of the Chassidic Yeshivah, Tomchei Temimim:[1] The...

Chassid 0

Three Groups of Chassidim

The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn is said to have divided his chassidim into three groups:[1] There are Chabad chassidim, chassidim who pray using the siddur constructed by the first Chabad Rebbe,...

Beis Hamikdash_2 0

A Lengthy Exile

The first Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi explained the reason for the lengthy exile:[1] The Talmud (Yuma 9b) that the destruction of the second Temple was on account of the sin of...

My Relative, Israel 0

My Relative, Israel

The Jerusalem Talmud (Berachos Ch. 9) describes the love that G-d has for the Jewish People, using the following formula: “When an individual of flesh and blood has a relative who is a philosopher,...

Memory Technique 0

Memory Technique

Once, a chossid of Rabbi Mendel of Kotzk complained to his Rebbe that he did not remember his learning. Reb Mendel responded: “A clear technique for remembering your studies is written in the Torah (Bamidbar 15:39-40),...

Three things 0

Three things

The holy Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vorki, enumerated three things that a chossid must know: “How to dance while sitting, how to be bent over while standing and how to cry out in...