G-d and Man

A Collection of discourses by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe. Written during the turbulent years of 1941-1945, many of the discourses focus on self sacrifice, repentance, and strengthening Judaism, often speaking of the lessons to be learned from the ...

A chassidic businessman came to my grandfather. This was a man who always kept Gates of Light and The Gate of Faith in his breast pocket and was fluent in both

You are the children to the Lord your G-d (14:1) From my own flesh I see G-d - Job 19:26 From the diary of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok of Lubavitch: Thursday, 14 Sivan 5662 Serebrinka[June 19, 1902] It is an hour now since I returned from visiting the abandoned ...

There is a certain madness to this idea of talking to G‑d, of saying “You” to the Ground of Reality.... Like the madness of love or of unbounded joy

Nothing happens by chance; even a leaf blowing in the wind does so because G-d wills it to. This book presents several analytical treatises by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, on the Baal Shem Tov's conception of ...

The Construction, Description of the Temple, The Dedication

The enlightened master knows he lacks nothing and so he prays for his people. But if he lacks nothing, then he knows that in truth they also lack nothing, and if so, for what is he praying? He prays they should have open eyes to see and open hearts to ...

The Rebbe describes the following as the central teaching of the Baal Shem Tov: Not only the pirouettes of a leaf as it falls off a tree, the quivering of a blade of grass in the wind, each and every detail of existence brought into being, given life and ...