| | | Yom HaBohir Tes Vov Ellul
Mazel Tov, Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim! |  | | Photograph: Lubavitch by Yechiel Offner | | Today, the 15th of Elul, Lubavitcher Chassidim around the world are celebrating the 114th yom huledes of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim, established during the Sheva Brochos week of the Frierdiker Rebbe ■ more | | | | | | | Practical Guidance for Parents
Welcoming Your Child Home Again |  | | Photograph: Illustration | Rabbi Yitzchok Ginsburgh shares insights and practical guidance for observant parents on how to relate to their children, no matter what their present situation or state of observance.Welcoming Your Child Home Again ■ more
| | | | | | | Friendship Circle Café
"They Really Touched People's Hearts" |  | | Photograph: Chabad.org | As part of a program called the Friendship Circle Café, Ari and his friends, joined by teen volunteers and restaurant wait staff, took and filled orders as area residents and supporters dined at the kosher Mozart Café. Designed to impart responsibility and offer a chance to interact with others, the program also drew attention to the Friendship Circle’s work ■ more
| | | | | | | Leb'n Mit Moshiach
Even the Skeptics Will Agree |  | Why is it that recently there is a constant, unrelenting clamor and “storm” about the impending Redemption? Seemingly, this was not done in the past years? It wasn’t seen that such a storm should be made, that the Geula is coming, in a way that we can see it with our eyes of flesh, in a tangible, actual and real sense, down here in this physical and material world, and throughout the entire world ■ more
| | | | | | | Rabbi Asher Deren
We Can Win the Gold |  | Rome’s destruction of Yerushalayim almost 2,000 years ago on the night that this year will mark the opening ceremony of the Olympics, was a culmination of a process in which Greece’s obsession with worship of the human body, and its erection of stadia across the Judean territory (Chanukah anyone?) played quite a significant and infamous role ■ more
| | | | | | | Rabbi Yehoishofot Oliver
Iskafya: Ploughing the Soil |  | | Illustration | Photograph: Lubavitch.com | To be sure, the Jew who engages in Iskafya probably already feels love for Hashem to a significant extent, for it was this desire to connect to G–dliness that motivated him to engage in Iskafya in the first place. However, by engaging in Iskafya and actually davvening with that extra sensitivity, with Hashem’s help, he will reach a far more sublime level of love for Hashem ■ more
| | | | | | | Rabbi Yehoishofot Oliver
Emotional Transformation: The Goal of Change |  | Hashem exhorted the Jewish people, “Make for Me a Mishkan, and I will dwell in their midst.”[1] Chassidus quotes earlier sources[2] that explain that the reason that it doesn’t say “I will dwell in its midst” is to allude to Hashem’s desire to dwell “in their midst”—that every Jew make a Mishkan for the Shechinah, the Divine Presence, within his or her inner self ■ more
| | | | | | | Part XXXVIII
Memoirs of Rebbetzin Chana |  | Part XXXVIII: My son keeps me going It’s now nine years since my arrival here [in New York]. Thank G‑d for my son, who has been accomplishing so much in recent years. He possesses outstandingly great abilities, intellectual brilliance and erudition, in addition to the greatness and holiness of his soul, and the fact that whatever he does is born of absolute truth. The world at large recognizes this and appreciates it ■ more | | | | | | | Leb'n Mit Moshiach
Mach Doh Eretz Yisroel |  | | Our Holy Land, Eretz Yisrael, is a place where G-dliness, holiness, and Yiddishkeit are openly revealed. In an ultimate sense, this will be realized in the time of Moshiach when the Beis HaMikdash will be rebuilt and the observance of all the mitzvos associated with the holiness of the land will be restored ■ more | | | | | | | Rabb Yehoishophot Oliver
Torah: The Key to Our Survival |  | | Recently someone said to me, and in all seriousness: “I’ve become more moderate and modern. I trim my beard, I don’t make a point of studying Torah so much anymore... But I’m very careful on Halachah, really. True, I watch movies sometimes, but only kosher ones ... Yes, I do a, b, and c, which most people consider forbidden ■ more | | | | | | | Part XXXVII
Memoirs of Rebbetzin Chana: Berel |  | | This day has significance for me that I need to share with someone, but unfortunately I don’t have anyone. I could do this only with my son, shlita, for I’m sure that he too remembers this day. However, I cannot discuss this subject with him ■ more | | | | | | | "I Admired Him"
Conversations With The Rebbe: Yitzchok Shamir |  | Rabbi Chaim Dalfin interviewed former Prime Minister Yitzchok Shamir, ob"m, in 5755.
The interview can be found in Dalfin's book "Conversations with the Rebbe ■ I never met the Rebbe personally. Of course, I’ve known a lot about him. I have met many people who met him. I was very impressed by all his activities, first by his initiative in starting activities for the rescue of the Soviet Jews ■ more  | | | | | | | Leb'n Mit Moshiach
12-13 Tammuz: Precusor to the Geula Shleima |  | | It’s clear that the 12th & 13th of Tammuz emphasizes it’s affect on all the nations of the world even the lowliest. This should therefore accentuate for us, to strengthen our faith in the coming of Moshiach, and to await and anticipate his arrival, as the Rambam writes ■ more | | | | | | | A Request
Rambam Yomi Shabbos Table Companion |  | | Rambam Yomi | | I hope that the ideas presented will inspire the learning of Rambam and Chassidus, and Nigleh, and we will be zoche to see The Rebbe immediately with the complete redemption ■ more | | | | | | | Rabb Yehoishophot Oliver
Obeying the Rebbe: A Story |  | | The Previous Rebbe told the following story: The Rebbe Maharash had two chassidim: The first would start “from below to above,” while the second would start “from above to below.” The first would start with action. He did everything in actuality, with self-sacrifice, and then the understanding would come. The second began with the understanding, and the action only followed later ■ more | | | | | | | Part XXXVI
Memoirs of Rebbetzin Chana |  | | The Rebbe at a Farbrengen: I don’t want to let pass the opportunity to record the pleasure I enjoyed last night listening to my son, shlita, speaking to an audience of many hundreds of people. I am not the expert to appraise the scholarship of the subjects on which he spoke, but the portion I did understand made a deep impression upon me with its rich content ■ more | | | | | | | Are you a witness to a news event? Have an exclusive picture? A Mazel Tov? A comment on a current event?
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