Merciful Discipline – Accessing The Kohen Within

by Rabbi Yosef Kahanov, Jax, FL

Until you can see the good within a person, you are incapable of helping him. (Tzvi Freeman, Bringing Heaven Down To Earth)

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Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok of Lubavitch was imprisoned in 1927 for perpetuating Jewish life within the vast boarders of the Soviet Union. The incarceration and physical abuse took its toll; leaving the Rebbe in a deteriorated state of health, for which he eventually sought treatment at various European sanatoriums. The Rebbe wrote the following letter to one of his sons-in-law in the winter of 1935:

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