Raise Yourself Up
When the 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom Dovber, was a child, he played with his older brother, Reb Zalman Aharon (Raza). During the course of their antics, Reb Zalman Aharon dug a pit and...
Category: Stories
Krias Shema and Shoes
The Mashpia (Chassidic mentor) in Tomchei Temim was Reb Michoel Bliner, generally referred to as Reb Michoel der Alter (the elder). The following[1] is a story that is expressive of his personality: Once, when...
Appreciating a Mitzvah
There was once a student of the famed Lubavitcher Yeshiva, Tomchei Temim, by the name of Zalman Dovid Homliner. Zalman Dovid passed away while still a young man, due to his intense service of...
Now It Says Echad
By Rabbi Dovid Markel Once, there was a Chassidic gathering at the home of Rabbi Shmuel Betzalel Sheftel (Rashbatz). At a certain point during the gathering, the food that had been prepared ran...
Prayer and Wealth
There was once a chossid of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe that posed to him the following question: “There are times when I do not have time to pray at length, is it therefore possible...
Reb Yisroel the Joyful
During the lifetime of the Bal Shem Tov there was an individual who lived in the town of Lubavitch by the name of Reb Yisroel “the Joyful.” He would often say that “’a mitzvah...
Choose Life
By Rabbi Dovid Markel The great sage Rabbi Meir of Rothenberg (1215-1293) was arrested by the non-Jewish authorities as a way to extort the Jewish community for 23,000 marks of silver. Rabbi Meir...
Becoming a Simple Jew
By Rabbi Dovid Markel Once[1], the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch said: “When Moshiach comes, he will spend his time talking to the simple Jew’s of innocent self-sacrifice. These Jew’s...
Lost in Thought
By Rabbi Dovid Markel Reb Binyomen Kletzker was a great chossid of two Chabad Rebbe’s—the founder of Chabad Chassidism, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi and his son Rabbi Dovber, commonly referred to as...
Praying From the Siddur
By Rabbi Dovid Markel There was once a chossid of the fourth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch, that had a private audience with the Rebbe in which he requested that the Rebbe...
