3 Tammuz Special: The Chabad Approach to Life

In honor of Gimmel Tammuz Chabad.org updated TheRebbe.org site with fascinating new accounts and correspondence of the Rebbe with Presidents of the United States, Physicians, Rabbis, Philanthropists and Jewish Leaders. Click here to read the fascinating accounts and correspondence.

I remember the one occasion that I spent Rosh Hashanah together with the Rebbe in 770 Eastern Parkway, Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, NY. And still then they were talking about an event that happened some years before, I think 1955.

Each year the Lubavitcher Rebbe would lead thousands of Chassidim along Eastern Parkway to do Tashlich [the prayer done at the side of water to symbolize the throwing of the sins in to the water] on Rosh Hashanah at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.

That year there was a tremendous downpour, and so powerful was it, that there was no one else out on the streets. When the Chassidim following the Rebbe arrived at the park, they found the gates of the gardens closed. What do you do? The garden is closed, it’s locked, the gates are barred.

Completely undeterred, the Rebbe looked at the seven or eight foot metal fence and proceeded to climb over it. And if the Rebbe climbs over a fence and you’re a Chassid, what can you do but follow?

That year in Lubavitch they recited the famous saying of the Rebbe Maharash, the fourth Chabad Rebbe: “If you meet an obstacle, and you can’t go under then you go over. And I say that is it is actually preferable to go over than to go under!”

Click here to read the rest of the fascinating article by article by Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks.