Weekly Letter: Learn About Milah Circumcision
In this weeks letter, the Rebbe gives some vital guidelines to a medical doctor who wishes to learn milah/circumcision.
Weekly Letter: A Living Example to his Friends
In this week’s letter, the Rebbe gives encouragement to one who is a living example to his friends to continue his good work.
Weekly Letter: The Seven Noachide Laws
This week we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he points out the importance of the commandments incumbent upon all mankind, the children of Noach. These are called the Seven Noachide Laws. The Rebbe makes mention of this in many of his letters.
Letter and Spirit: Anniversary of The Yom Kippur War
As this week is the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, we present a letter of the Rebbe written to a lady whom he is praising for doing activities in chinuch. This was written right after the Yom Kippur War.
Weekly Letter: Bereshis
The article we are sharing this week about Bereshis, was written by Rabbi Nissan Mindel and reviewed and noted by the Rebbe – as was done with most of Rabbi Mindel’s writings (which he wrote for his monthly children’s magazine Talks and Tales and other publications). The Rebbe’s corrections and notations are included in this final draft. Rabbi Mindel wrote other articles of this nature, about other parshios as well.
Weekly Letter: The Season of our Rejoicing
In this week’s letter the Rebbe brings some points about the Season of our Rejoicing – culmination of the month of Tishrei, with his blessings.
Weekly Letter: The Chabad Custom of Not Sleeping In The Sukkah
The Rebbe’s letter this week addresses the question of why it is the custom of Chabad not to decorate the succah nor to sleep in it.
Weekly Letter: The Difference Between Depression (Paralyzing) and Bitterness (Energizing)
The Rebbe explains in this letter, to one experiencing moods that may lead to discouragement and depression – the difference between depression (paralyzing) and bitterness (energizing), as Tanya teaches, and suggests further study of this topic.
Weekly Letter: Teshuva Is Not as Difficult as One Anticipates
In preparation for Rosh Hashanah we focus on teshuvah during the preceding weeks. To one desiring to do teshuva and lead a life of Torah and mitzvos, the Rebbe reassuringly explains that it is not as difficult as one anticipates.
Weekly Letter: The Two Shmitta Laws Pertaining to Debts
The New Year we are soon beginning – 5782- is a SHMITTA/sabbatical year. In his letter, the Rebbe explains the special significance of this year as it can be applied to us in our relationship with G-d. The Rebbe’s emphasis here is not on the agricultural laws of shmitta but rather on the 2 shmitta laws pertaining to debts – where in our relationship with G-d, we are the debtors and G-d is the Creditor.
Weekly Letter: A Letter to the King of Spain
In his letter to the King of Spain, the Rebbe thanks the king for the gracious honor which he accorded to the Rebbe’s emissary on the occasion of the celebration of the Rambam, a native of Cordoba. And takes the opportunity to give the king blessings for the New Year, now during the month of Elul.
Weekly Letter: The Answer to Ones Doubts and Insecurities
With the start of the month of Elul – we begin saying the 27th Chapter of Psalms daily after davening. In answer to one with doubts and insecurities, the Rebbe delves into the cause of these feelings and explains the meaning and deeper significance of this chapter of Tehillim – which contains the remedy.
Weekly Letter: The Mitzvah of Kashrut
In the week of Parshas Re’ey, where we learn the laws of kashrut – we bring a letter in which the Rebbe emphasizes the importance of yiddishkeit as a continuous daily experience and underlines some important aspects of the mitzvah of kashrut.
Weekly Letter: Why Are They Not Saying It?
During our present confusing times, when even men of science seem to be compromised, afraid to lose their position, and we cannot truly know what is fact and what is not – we present a letter of the Rebbe that addresses this very question: if men of science are aware of what modern science says about “laws” and “theories” of science, especially as it pertains to the theory of evolution (one of the weakest theories) – why are they not saying it?
Weekly Letter: “May G-d Comfort You Among the other Mourners of Zion and Jerusalem”
During these “weeks of consolation” – after the pain of our loss on Tisha b’Av- – we share a letter of the Rebbe with comforting words.
Weekly Letter: Equating of “Orthodoxy” With “Modern-Day Zealots”
During the Nine Day period – we share a letter of the Rebbe written to one whose views about the state of affairs in the Holy Land is based on misinformation. The Rebbe clarifies the writer’s equating of “orthodoxy” with “modern-day zealots” as totally unjustified. The Jewish Zealots in the time of the Roman oppression in Eretz Yisroel before the destruction of the Bais Hamikdash cannot be compared to the orthodoxy of Torah observant Jews of today.
Weekly Story: The Jewish Claim to the Land of Israel
In the Torah portion of Massei the details of the borders of Eretz Yisroel are clearly defined. We share a letter in which the Rebbe discusses the events in the Holy Land and the Jewish claim to the land which is derived from the Torah.
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