Short Stories of the Rebbe

“My field was electrical engineering," the Rebbe told me. "But I prefer to turn on the lights in people’s souls.”

A short story with the Rebbe.

A question asked by Dr. David Weiss, a professor at Berkeley in California, during his visit to the Rebbe.

How a conversation Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to Congress, had with the Rebbe, turned disappointment into opportunity and helped feed hungry children across America.

When a widow shared how lonely she felt with the Rebbe, he shared a powerful message of hope and the essential truth: We're never alone, because G-d is always with us.

When the Rebbe explained the deeper meaning of the game to chess champion Sammy Reshevsky.

The Rebbe enlightens a young lady who was dating for marriage on the true meaning of love.

In 1974, Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak Hecht, a Chabad rabbi in New Haven, Connecticut, wrote to the Rebbe after 33 years of tremendous work, begging the Rebbe to help him.

When Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Weinreb was a young psychologist in Silver Spring, Maryland, he faced a personal crisis and sought out sage advice.

When a curious boy posed a question to the Rebbe’s mother.