Parshas Terumah – Three Gifts, Three Pillars
To view as a Designed and Printable PDF, click here. G-d instructs the Jewish people to erect the Tabernacle in the desert, and to donate funds for its purposes. The instructions for these...
Neirot
A Biblical Commandment
In the eyes of chassidim, being happy and seeing the positive in every situation is considered as if it were a biblical commandment. (Additions to Keser Shem Tov, 169)
Love and Recognize
Every single Jew has a boundless love for G-d. This is evident in this that every Jew is willing to die for the sanctification of G-d’s name. Every single Jew internally recognizes that there...
Awaiting the Physical
A soul stands and awaits for a thousand years the time that it will come down into this world. It longs for the time that it will become enclothed a crude soul, and will...
Like an Animal
The first chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, once had a conversation with an individual that was known to be a great Torah scholar with exemplary character traits. In the conversation the Rebbe...
A Match and A Coal
A lit match, when blown on even slightly, is extinguished. However, with a coal, the more that one blows on it, the greater the fire becomes. The reason for this being, that with the match...
Thinking About G-d
A chossid once boasted of the manner in which he serves G-d, to the 4th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch: “I learn Chassidus prior to prayer, I contemplate on chassidic concepts during prayer...
Fooling a Fool
The second Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi DovBer of Lubavitch once remarked: “An individual that does not work to improve his service of G-d in an internal way and is instead complacent in the manner which...
The Ladder
Once, a mentor for young chassidim, asked the following question: “Who is higher, the person on the 5th rung of a ladder, or the 3rd?” He continued to answer the question himself: If the...
