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The Lubavitcher Rebbe, R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory (1902-1994); seventh leader of Chabad-Lubavitch, lived in Nikolayev and Dnieperptrosk (Ukraine), Leningrad, Berlin, Warsaw, Paris and New York; built upon and expanded his predecessors’ work to revolutionize Jewish life across the globe; known simply as “the Rebbe”
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In the eleventh section of the Book of Genesis, we reach the dramatic climax of the chronicle of Joseph. It begins as Judah approaches (Vayigash, “and he approached” in Hebrew) Joseph in defense of Benjamin. Judah’s willingness to save Benjamin convinces ...
This week’s Torah reading relates that after Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, “he fell on the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin fell on his neck.” Why were they both crying? Rashi, a classic commentator who usually focuses o...
This Torah portion is always read near the 5th day in the Hebrew month of Teves, the day that the Lubavitcher Rebbe declared to be a holiday for Jewish books. The library which the Rebbe Rayatz, R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, had assembled for the sake of...
Once a group of Jewish educators came to the Rebbe, proudly telling him that the number of children in Jewish schools had increased, and now half the Jewish children in the New York area were receiving a Jewish education. The Rebbe’s response was immediat...
Likkutei Sichos, Vol. V, p. 239ff. I. {“There is no word in the Torah that does not possess sublime [mystic] secrets and paths [of conduct] for men to follow.” Zohar, Vol. I, p. 201a.} For this reason, the Torah relates [many details] concerning [the stor...
Not only did Joseph save the Egyptians from the seven years of famine, by arranging for grain to be stored during the previous years, but he also provided for his family during that time, as Sidra Vayigash tells us, despite the harm that his brothers had ...
The verse states:Beginning of Torah portion Vayeishev. “These are the descendants of Ya’akov — Yosef.” This indicates that Yosef was the continuation of Ya’akov,See Biurei HaZohar of the Mitteler Rebbe 29d ff., Biurei HaZohar of the Tzemach Tzedek p. 168f...
The Torah portion Vayigash , in describing the poignant reunion of Yosef and Binyamin, relates:Bereishis 45:14. “And he [Yosef] fell on the neck of his brother Binyamin and he wept, and Binyamin wept on his [Yosef’s] neck.” The Gemara comments:Megilah 16b...
In the Torah portion of Vayigash we read how Yaakov and his family descended to Egypt. We are informed that “The number of individuals in Yaakov’s household who came to Egypt was 70.”Bereishis 46:27. But when we add up the actual number of Yaakov’s descen...
In the Torah portion of Vayigash, we learn that when Yosef finally revealed his identity to his brothers, he told them not to feel too guilty about causing him to be sold into slavery and go to Egypt, forBereishis 45:7-9. it was G-d who caused him to go. ...
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