Nissan 11

We remember people, events, scenes and feelings from our childhood. But do we remember the self we were? The manner in which we perceived reality?

On birthdays past, well-wishers offer the Rebbe their blessings for the special occasion.

Yud-Alef Nissan is the Rebbe’s birthday. A birthday is more than a day for songs and celebrations. Instead, a birthday is a day when mazalo gover, the spiritual source of a person’s soul shines with power. When we say “the spiritual source of a person’s ...

Adults and children wish the Rebbe a long life, a happy Passover and a happy birthday!

This farbrengen was held on the Rebbe’s birthday in 1985 and also marked the first Siyum Harambam, the closure of the yearly cycle of studying the Mishneh Torah, the magnum opus of Maimonides.

The Rebbe’s 75th birthday: Today’s gathering is not about a private individual. It is only that I had the good fortune to be able to help others to grow in Torah and Mitzvos, to assist and encourage them to the best of my ability…

Revealing a glimpse of the wisdom that moves himself, the Rebbe addresses questions that go to the very core of the human experience: Why am I here? Why do I struggle? And more importantly—what am I capable of becoming?

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

Original introduction to a 1982 satellite broadcast of the Rebbe's 80th birthday celebration. Hosted by Joseph Papp and the event's simultaneous translator, Rabbi Manis Friedman.