We’ve already established that Yisro connotes to not rest on our laurels. What is the difference between the Yeser stage of his life and the Yisro stage? Both stages involve adding on; in the case of Yeser it is contributing a section of the Torah and in the case of Yisro it involved converting to Judaism. What was so fundamentally different about the second stage that a new letter, Vav, had to be added to his name?
It was recently Baba Sali’s thirtieth yahrtzait. Beis Moshiach spoke with R’ Shlomo Weitzman who was close with the tzaddik in Netivot. He had fascinating things to say about the special relationship and great admiration that Baba Sali had for the Rebbe MH”M.
Every year, on 19 Shevat, the descendants of the Shpoler Zeide (1724-1811) get together for a Melaveh Malka to mark the day of his amazing salvation. * We present stories and references in Chabad literature to R’ Aryeh Leib zt”l, known as the Shpoler Zeide. We also present the story of his miraculous rescue and how the Rebbe related to this Melaveh Malka seuda.
Stories and memories about the Chassid, R’ Herschel Lerner, recounted by his granddaughter and suffused with Chassidic flavor. * Sixth and final chapter
Despite the tragedy of freeing terrorists with Jewish blood on their hands, this isn’t the real story. These terrorists are only a cover for the real issue: the developing treaty between the government of Israel and the PLO. While the latter supports terrorist violence to this very day, the former continues to grant it nominal status as a peace-loving human rights organization.
Presented for Chaf-Beis Shevat, the day Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka a”h passed away.
…“in every generation an individual descended from Yehuda is born who is qualified to be the Moshiach for Israel,” and that “one who qualifies because of his righteousness to be the Redeemer and when the time arrives G-d will be revealed to him and send him, etc.” And according to the announcement of my sainted father-in-law, the leader of our generation, the singular shliach of our generation, the singular Moshiach of our generation, that everything has already concluded, it’s understood that there has begun to be fulfilled the “send now the one You will send,”…
R’ Bentzion Milecki, a senior Chabad rabbi in Australia, received dozens of answers from the Rebbe regarding Hafatzas HaYahadus. He was one of the founders of the first hafatza organization in Sydney and has served as the rav of the second largest shul there for three decades. * In this interview, he discusses the chiddush of the Rebbe, the fact that every Jew is a shliach, and shares an extraordinary miracle he experienced with an answer he received from the Rebbe four years ago.
The Rebbe Rayatz asks us for mesirus nefesh. Not earth-shattering mesirus nefesh, but the type of mesirus nefesh which entails forgoing our desires in order to do Hashem’s will. Pursuing this entails effort similar to or even more than the ultimate in mesirus nefesh as we know it. * From a speech delivered by Rabbi Shmuel Butman at the Yud Shvat farbrengen in 770 in 5772.
Chassidic philanthropist, R’ Sholom Ber Drizin, who contributes millions of dollars a year to Chabad mosdos and shluchim, in a fascinating discussion with Beis Moshiach. * His childhood years of poverty, his father, the mashpia R’ Avrohom Maiyor, the life of mesirus nefesh in Soviet Russia, life in a refugee camp in a barrack with Rebbetzin Chana a”h, his relationship with the Rebbe when he was a bachur and the bracha which increased his wealth a thousand times over.
We must now try to understand the deeper underlying connection between Moses’ splitting of the sea and Maimonides’ writing of his magnum opus. On the surface, these two events represent totally different genres of might. The first is the power to control nature and the latter is the power to codify Jewish law.
His accomplishments for Yiddishkeit are legendary. His hiskashrus to the Rebbe knew no bounds. His love of Torah and Mesiras Nefesh for the honor of Chassidus and the Jewish people are famous. * Presented for the first Yarzheit of HaRav HaChassid Reb Avraham Dov Hecht
Stories and memories about the Chassid, R’ Hirschel Lerner, recounted by his granddaughter and suffused with Chassidic flavor. * Part 5.
January 14, 2014