Letters

An excerpt from the first "public letter" issued by the Rebbe

There is more to a journey than its destination, insisted the Rebbe in this characteristic letter, written several months after his official assumption of the leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch

How does a painting compel us to see its subject in a new light? And how is this to be applied to the art of life? A letter to a depressed artist

Pain, gain and their rate of return

Can there be such a thing as an outraged atheist?

If he needn't actually do anything, what's the honor?

In Torah, as in nature, there are exoteric and esoteric forces; one hundred and ninety-eight years ago, one of the latter electrified Jewish life

What an education can and cannot do

Perfect harmony and full acceptance of a central authority might be the ideal, but ideals are usually the greatest obstacle in getting anything done

Parallels that are worlds apart

in which the means are an end in themselves

What, exactly, is a Rebbe?

What motivated the Rebbe? What drove his unceasing labor and unprecedented achievements?

And where they converge

If G-d trusts them, they have earned our respect

is more bearable--and its recovery more certain

On Rosh Hashanah, we reiterate our commitment to G-d as our king. But isn't kingship a metaphor whose time has passed?

Medical advice to a young educator

In Judaism, the deed is the primary thing. But sometimes the primary thing gets in the way

When a Jew finds himself in a distant corner of the world, far from his homeland, far from any established Jewish community, this is certainly not by chance