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...
Category: INSPIRATION
Jewish Life in the Soviet Union – A Historical Overview
To view as Pdf click here By Rabbi Amiram Markel Life for the Jew in Tsarist Russia was never particularly pleasant. Russia did not undergo any period which could remotely be called a “Golden...
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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...
A Small Mistake
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
Use a Board
Beating our chests in confession.
A Different Type of Sin
The ‘al chet’ of a young Rebbe.
Unwanted Pleasure
An explanation to the concept of voluntary compulsion expressed in the Yom Kippur prayers.
Willful Compulsion
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...
Weak and Poor
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,...
Regretting Sin
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.
