Chabad Rebbes

Introduction In our morning blessings, we praise G‑d for “preparing the steps of man,” Our translation of the blessing is based on Metzudas Tziyon and Malbim on Tehillim 37:23. for there is a specific Divine intent leading us wherever we go. This reflects...

Introduction It is not a particularly flattering fact of Jewish history:During the era of the Second Beis HaMikdash, the chamber of the Kohen Gadol was called “the Chamber of Parhedrin.” Instead of using the Hebrew for “High Priest,” the Sages referred to...

Rabbi Levi Yitzchak devotes 25 pages of dense Kabbalistic text to explaining this discrepancy through the lens of Jewish mysticism.

The tenth and last section of the Book of Numbers begins by reviewing the journeys (Mas’ei, in Hebrew) of the Jewish people from Egypt until the threshold of the Land of Israel. It continues with G‑d’s instructions regarding the Jews’ imminent entry and c...

There is a unique factor that features in this week’s Torah reading that never occurs on any other Sabbath. In the midst of the recounting of the events that occurred to the Jewish people in their journey from Egypt to the Promised Land, the Torah relates...

Once the saintly R. Zusya of Anapoli was traveling from town to town to raise money for the redemption of captives. On the course of his journey, he came to an inn. The owner was not home, but the members of his household invited R. Zusya to stay. One of ...

On entering the Rebbe’s room for a private audience, a Lubavitcher communal leader noticed that the Rebbe’s expression had a hint of sadness. With some boldness, he asked the Rebbe what was troubling him. The Rebbe replied that there was a family in Crown...

Our Sidra begins with an account of the 42 journeys by which the Israelites left Egypt and came to the borders of the Chosen Land. The opening verse, however, suggests that all of the journeys were an exodus from Egypt, whereas in fact only the first one ...

Adapted from Likkutei Sichos, Vol. II, p. 348; Vol. VI, p. 111ff, 235ff; Vol. XXIII, p. 224 Signs of Life Life and activity are almost synonymous, for movement is one of the fundamental signs of life. Simple, inert matter is limited to its particular plac...

The penimi appreciates the differences between important things and things of lesser importance, between means and ends, between journeys and destinations. But in whatever he is involved, he is fully there. When he's on the way to something, he's fully in...