At Least You’re Embarrassed
The great chossid Rabbi Hillel of Paritch was accustomed to traveling to various towns and townlets and inspiring the chassidim there to pray at length. The words of Rabbi Hillel were effective, and indeed...
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Handicapped Angels
By Rabbi Dovid Markel The Mishna in Pirkei Avot states (4:11): “Rabbi Eliezer the son of Yaakov would say: ‘He who fulfills one mitzvah, acquires for himself one angel-advocate; he who commits one...
Yaakov’s Ladder
By Rabbi Dovid Markel The Torah (Bereishis, 28:12) describes Yaakov’s dream in the following manner: “And he dreamed, and behold! A ladder set up on the ground and its top reached to heaven;...
The 10th of Shevat
By Rabbi Dovid Markel Sixty-five years ago today, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson assumed the mantle of Chabad leadership, becoming the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Rebbe’s opening speech was a chasidic discourse based on...
Parshas Beshalach – Our Profession
To view as a Designed and Printable PDF, click here. As the Jewish people were leaving Egypt, they noticed Pharaoh pursuing them with his army, and they cried out to G-d. This Sicha...
Parshas Bo – Logic and Beyond
To view as a Desgned and Printable PDF, click here. The first mitzvah the Jewish people are given as a nation is the sanctification of the new month. This Sicha analyzes the centrality...
Parshas Bo – Taking You Out of Egypt
By Avner Friedmann The parsha of the week states,[1] “It was on this very day that HaShem took the Children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, according to their legions.” The...
Love Your Fellow
By Leibel Estrin Vayikra 19:18, the Torah commands us ‘You shall love your fellow like yourself.’ This is the mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel, “love of a fellow Jew.” According to Rabbi Akiva, it...
Parshas VaEra – A Lesson In Rebuke
By Rabbi Dovid Markel Last week’s parsha concludes with Moshe protesting G-d’s actions towards the Israelites. G-d had sent Moshe to Egypt to redeem the Israelites, but instead the servitude only intensified. Moshe returned to...
