Likkutei Dibburim

The Chabad way of life is spiritual, colorful, and uplifting, and every Chassidic work provides us with a portal into a different facet of the Chabad approach. Unique in this array of texts is Likkutei Dibburim, a collection of talks by the Sixth Rebbe, R...

The First Generation — the Alter Rebbe The principal work of Chassidus Chabad is Likkutei AmarimLiterally translated as “A Collection of Sayings.” See Sefer HaSichos 5750, Vol. 1, p. 285, fn. 155, for an explanation of this term. Tanya, which was authored...

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.

My father was so deep in meditation that he drew the attention of many passersby. Whenever I observed him in this state I yearned to know what thoughts were engaging his mind, and what world his mind was now surveying. At length a deep sigh inadvertently ...

The sixth Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, author of the present work, was born on 12 Tammuz, 5640 (1880), and by 5655 (1895) was involved in public affairs as the personal secretary of his father, the Rebbe Rashab, whom he also represented at international Rab...

To my friends [...], Greetings and Blessings: Any town in which one of the temimimI.e., one of the present or past students of one of the Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch Yeshivos. lives should bear the marks of the radiant influence he generates in the Jewish l...

At a Visit of Supporters of the Central Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch Yeshivos of America Fifth Day of Aseres Yemei Teshuvah 5710This visit, four months before the passing of the Rebbe Rayatz on Yud Shvat, 5710 (Jan. 28, 1950), was to be the last of these ann...

1. The fruits of ahavas Yisrael Ahavas Yisrael — the obligation to love a fellow Jew — is one of the major foundations in the teachings of our mentor the Baal Shem Tov and of his disciples, the Rebbeim whose links perpetuate his holy chain. And indeed, am...

1. In the throes of chastisement The extraordinary punitive suffering that Jews are undergoing in all countries — including this supposedly friendly land of America — must torment every Jewish head and pain every Jewish heart. We clearly see how dire chas...