Life Cycles

A look at the milestones in life that we celebrate together, which remind us who we are and why we are here: birth, circumcision, bar/bat-mitzvah, wedding. This class is the fifth lecture of a six-part series titled ‘The Essentials,’ which introduces the ...

I have been asked: “Now that you’ve reached 70 years isn’t it time to slow down and enjoy some rest? The number of one’s years is irrelevant; the real question is: were those years utilized to the fullest? Every honest person knows he could have ...

There is only one thing like the love of a mother for her child . . .

A thirteen year-old boy from the shtetl and his sister discuss the significance of becoming bar mitzvah.

An hour-long excerpt from a 1982 satellite broadcast of the Rebbe’s pre-Passover gathering on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

In time for Passover, the Rebbe advises a family on health and nachas and encourages the young.

According to Jewish custom, the Shir Hama’alot psalm is posted beside a newborn baby’s crib. This was commonplace when Jewish women gave birth in the atmosphere of their own homes. Nowadays, when most children are born in hospitals, it is vital to ...

May G-d grant success to all the Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. On one’s birthday, one is born anew; may it be with new Mazel in Torah, Mitzvos and all areas of your lives. Every Bar and Bat Mitzvah resolves to constantly grow especially in the commandment to ...

Reb Avraham Genin, a member of the underground network of Chabad Chassidim in the Soviet Union, visits the Rebbe.

The fact that a parent feeds and clothes a child does not mean he may do with the child whatever he wants… The parent himself is a possession of G-d; how much more so their child, who is only entrusted to the parent for safekeeping. There is only one ...