Truth Covers the World
The Ba-al Shem tov once explained the famous aphorism that says, “With truth, one is able to traverse the entire world.” He elaborated as follows: “When one arrives at a place and speaks the...
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The Ba-al Shem tov once explained the famous aphorism that says, “With truth, one is able to traverse the entire world.” He elaborated as follows: “When one arrives at a place and speaks the...
Rabbi Hillel of Paritch was wont to say: “Though I don’t love fools, a person who is not particularly clever is closer to the truth. (Shmuos V’Sipurrim Vol. 3 Pg. 230)
The late Rav of Kfar Chabad, Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ashkanazai, once told the following anecdote that he heard from the Chassidic mentor, Rabbi Mendel Futerfas, in the name of the holy Reb Zev Volf...
Once, during the lifetime of the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel, there was a certain chossid of his who made his livelihood through buying forests and selling their lumber. The primary season for...
The chassidic mentor in Tomchei Temim, Reb Shmuel Gronem Estherman, once recalled the following story: It was the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi’s custom to read the Torah be the one to...
An essential difference between chassidus and philosophy.
The chossid, Rabbi Eliyahu Yosef Rivlin, was one of the great chassidim of the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch. It was even said about him that he possessed Ruach HaKodesh (Divine...
The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, wrote the following in a Chassidic discourse: A person must have a penchant in loving his fellow. When a one meets his fellow, he asks him,...
The fourth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch once told his son, the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer, the following: The Alter Rebbe sacrificed his holy soul and invested his tremendous energies so...
Reb Hillel of Paritch once said: “Lubavitch is a holy ‘Kaf HaKela[1].’ One is flung from here to there and one does not know in which world they are even in.” (Likutei Sipurim, Pg....