Human Being, The

"Go to the craftsman who made me," said the man, "and say to him: How ugly is the vessel which you have made!"

“It’s just not the same anymore without him . . .” She bows her head. I nod in agreement, but inside I’m singing.

Why must everything be so difficult? Couldn't G-d have designed our lives so that we wouldn't need to encounter disappointments, challenges and toil every step of the way?

For most of my life, I never saw crying as an expected, positive, and even necessary part of life—not to mention something one would ever do in front of other people. I always thought crying was, well, shameful. At best, a sign of weakness and ...

"Quite a change, is it not?" said Abraham with a pleased smile on his face. "Yes, quite a change," the Rebbe sadly replied

But now he was about to do the unthinkable. He was going to ask his Rebbe to bless him that G-d should send him a comfortable livelihood...

A room full of five-year-olds in a Russian cheder learn a new way to read the Alef Bet

When two Jews get together and one tells the other what ails his heart, the result is two G‑dly souls taking on a single animal soul.

The year was 1945, just after the war. The place: a refugee camp somewhere in Germany. Jews just out of concentration camps had gathered in a barracks-turned-Synagogue for the Yom Kippur prayers

At the conclusion of the voyage, the doctor asked the Rebbe to forgive him for having been the cause of his illness. "You, the cause of my illness?" asked the Rebbe in amazement