Like a Blanket
Once, when a certain chossid desired to move to the Land of Israel, his Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel of Ruzhin, told him the following allegory: The Land of Israel is akin to a down blanket....
Category: Stories
The Generation of Moshiach
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...
Abaye and Rava
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...
A Proper Kohen
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...
A Focal Difference
An essential difference between chassidus and philosophy.
Sensing My Thoughts
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...
Where Am I?
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....
The Bitter Truth
In one of the talks of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitchak Schneersohn, he once repeated an exchange that took place between the holy chossid, Reb Michale Apotzker and his student, Reb Shmuel...
Help to Forget
When the holy chassid, Reb Michael Apotzker was a young man, he studied various works of Jewish Philosophy. Many years later, after he became a chossid, he regretted learning these works. He complained to...
Chassidus During Work
The great chossid, Reb Binyomen Kletzker, was called thus because he worked in the sale of logs (the Yiddish word for log being “klotz”). Once, when he was attending to a shipment at the banks...
