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"I Came Into My Garden," Unfolded Into Plain English

Mastering the maamar will nourish our connection with its author, as well, our minds will be engaged and filled with the rebbe’s teachings.
A Visit to the Ohel Eight Years in the Making

I tried to let go of my expectations. I would allow this visit to be whatever it was meant to be.
Tending the Uprooted Tree of Israel

The Rebbe taught us to make this world a beautiful garden where G‑d will feel at home.
Wed. Is 10 Shevat
Here are the resources you need to mark this special day.
Parshah
Why Did All the Pursuers Die at the Red Sea?

Was there not even a single person who deserved to be spared?
Triggering G-d

G‑d behaves with you as you behave with Him and others.
Video
Excerpts from the Rebbe’s First Chassidic Discourse

The sages state that “all sevenths are cherished.” This is the reason, they explain, why Moses was the one who merited to bring G-d’s Presence into this world—because he was the seventh from Abraham.
Your Questions
Shabbat Shirah and Feeding the Birds

Shabbat Shirah is when we sing the Song of the Sea as part of the Torah portion of Beshalach. It comes with some unusual customs.
Story
A Boy and a Calf

At the age of eleven, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak was thrown in jail for helping a fellow Jew. This story is indicative of the pattern that the rest of his life would follow.
By the Numbers
6 Money Management Lessons From the Upbringing of the Sixth Rebbe

I don’t want my children to be one of many adults who, like myself, headed into adulthood with few money management skills and learned financial lessons mostly through costly mistakes.
Essay
Why Joy Feels So Scary, and What You Can Do About It

If G‑d didn’t command me to feel joy, would I?
Does G-d Speak Baby Talk?

Like a loving parent who interacts with their infant through cooing and crooning, G‑d chooses to interact with us in our own “baby talk.”
A denigrating attitude toward others while inflating one's own importance makes one lose all his spiritual gains, G-d forbid
— Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch (Hayom Yom, Iyar 20)
Print Magazine

There are those who say that before we do any mitzvah, we must first understand why it needs to be done. Why else were we given a mind?

There are others who say we must just obey with simple faith. How else can we bond with One who is entirely beyond our understanding?

Abraham did both. He began with absolute faith,...

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