In Court With a Cow
Once, a query concerning the kosher status of a certain cow was brought before the great chossid, Rabbi Hillel of Paritch. After some deliberation he declared the animal to be fit for consumption. Those...
Category: INSPIRATION
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...
A Different Story
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the first Chabad Rebbe, would himself serve as the reader of the Megilah of Esther in his synagogue, on the holiday of Purim. After he passed away, his son Rabbi...
Hear The Cry
By Rabbi Dovid Markel Once, a halachik query concerning the kosher status of a certain lung was brought before the first Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. After examining the lung, the...
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...
A False Truth
The Medrash (Tanchuma, Korach, 11) states, that after the debacle with Korach his children repented. They exclaimed: “Moshe is true, his Torah is true, and we are deceitful.” Chassidim would explain that their statement,...
Twenty-One Years For Truth
The great tzaddik Reb Pinchas of Koritz worked on the character trait of truthfulness for twenty-one years. For seven years he labored to remove himself from lying, another seven years to recognize what truth was,...
False Humility
There are some individuals who only see their faults and blemishes. They are only aware of their negative and their essential lowliness. This way of acting is false self-effacement and foolish humility. It destroys...
Flesh, Blood and G-d
In Tanya (Ch. 2) it states that every single Jew “from the highest of all ranks to the lowest that is embodied within the illiterate and the most worthless, all derive, as it were,...
