א' דראש חודש אלול, ה'תשמ"ב

The Lubavitcher Rebbes were emphatic that children be taught the Hebrew letters and vowels separately, and only afterwards how to pronounce them together — for example, to recite: "Kumatz-Alef — Uh". Each individual letter, vowel and sound was given at Si...

The first Chabad Rebbe offers a parable illustrating G-d’s closeness of every individual during the Hebrew month of Elul.

Many manuscripts of Maimonides’ Commentary to the Mishna show an illustration of the Holy Menorah in which each decorative goblet on the Menorah’s branches face upward. But Maimonides’ own handwritten sketch of the Menorah shows the exact opposite: They f...

The Rebbe explains the best way to rebuke a fellow who is seemingly guilty of sin.

The Talmud in Tractate Megillah relates: “Rabbi Eliezer says we do not read Ezekiel 16 publicly, for it recounts the undesirable behavior of the Jewish people in Jerusalem. In practice, we do not follow Rabbi Eliezer’s opinion. Why, then, did the Talmud r...

Parents are never satisfied to provide their children with the minimum, or even the average. For their own needs a father or mother might settle for less, but for their children they want only the greatest and the best they can provide. If this is so with...

A Jew is instructed to give rebuke, as the verse commands: “You shall surely rebuke your fellow.” Nevertheless, you can deliver the rebuke joyfully, good-naturedly, and gently.

At the conclusion of a farbrengen, the Rebbe hands a small bottle of vodka to Rabbi Dovid Raskin, and instructs him to use its contents toward a farbrengen in Crown Heights, and to have some of it sent to camp Gan Yisroel for a farbrengen there as well.

The windows in the Temple were designed to be narrow on the inside and wide on the outside, representing the fact that its purpose is to shine outward and share the light with the rest of the world. The goblets in the Temple Menorah also symbolize this id...

The verse commands: “You shall surely rebuke your fellow.” Nevertheless, one must deliver the rebuke joyfully, good-naturedly, and gently.