A Perfect Quote
Reb Yale Kahn, the chief recorder of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s thoughts, once repeated a story that exemplifies the Rebbe’s memory and his intimate knowledge of the works of Reb Tzadok of Lublin. “Once,” said...
Category: Stories
Fear of Heaven
When Rabbi Yosef Rosen, the famed Rogitzover Gaon, was 17 years old, he travelled around “to see if the world knew how to learn at all.” One of his stops was in Lublin, and...
Reb Tzadok and the Toras Chessed
The famous Lubavitcher gaon, Rabbi Shneur Zalman Fradkin, commonly referred to as the “Toras Chessed” after his famous work, was a close friend of Reb Tzadok of Lublin, who served alongside him as Rabbi...
Pleasant Food
The first Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, expressed the following concerning our involvement with the physical:[1] “The involvement in the corporeal, such as eating and drinking, must be in a manner as...
Moshiach and Prayer
Chassidim once sat and discussed the way that the world will be after the coming of Moshiach. One of participants was an old chossid who had seen both the third and fourth Lubavitcher Rebbes. He...
A Conversation Overheard
The third Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, was once asked the following: “What is the point in toiling in the study of Chassidus? For, when Moshiach comes, the depth of Torah will...
Four Extra Years
A chossid of the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, managed an inn that he would rent from the local landowner. Each year, he would renew the lease and pay the ten...
Good Character Traits
The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, once shared an episode from his youth: When he was seven years old, his mother gave him some watermelon to eat as a snack. Upon going...
How Can You Eat?
A chossid of old once remarked: “If the day of Shabbos is considered so holy, that even eating and drinking does not make the individual more coarse, how can one waste their time consuming...
Food and Drink
The holy rabbi, Reb Moshe, the son of the first Rebbe of the Chabad dynasty, would not eat meat—even on Shabbos. He was once asked concerning the rationale behind his behavior, being that it...
