Yehoshua B. Gordon

I grew up in a Chabad family. In fact, I was six months old when the Previous Rebbe passed away in 1950, and my mother brought me in a carriage to the funeral. When I was three, it was the Rebbe who did my upshernish, that is gave me my first haircut. As ...

Rabbi Yehoshua Gordon relates that when he and his family were facing a difficult challenge in their work as Chabad emissaries, his wife wrote to the Rebbe for advice and blessing. To this day, the words of the Rebbe’s response hang framed in Rabbi Gordon...

V’atah Tetzaveh is the last maamar the Rebbe edited and personally distributed to chassidim. The discourse explains how the Jewish leader assists the Jew in strengthening, nurturing and internalizing the soul’s essential faith.

The Rebbe would say a maamar on the 10th of Shevat, commemorating the anniversary of passing of his father-in-law, the sixth Chabad Rebbe, each year expounding upon another chapter from his father-in-law’s discourse titled Basi LeGani. This maamar, recite...

Shortly after leaving Egypt, the children of Israel found themselves in an impossible situation, stuck between the sea in front of them and the Egyptian army chasing them from behind. The proper response contains a powerful lesson in surmounting seemingly...

Rabbi Gordon shares personal reflections and inspirational anecdotes on the occasion of the Rebbe’s yahrtzeit.