Reshimot

Editor's note: Three notebooks of notes by the Rebbe, of righteous memory, came to light about a month after his passing, when they were discovered in a drawer in his room. The entries in these journals date between the years 1928, the year of the Rebbe's...

"Maybe Alone, Never Forsaken" presents readings inspired by excerpts from the Rebbe's journals, against the backdrop of rare archival film depicting the times and circumstances in which they were written—in the period directly before and during World War ...

In the Rebbe's correspondence and his annotations to Chassidic texts, there are occasional references to his reshimot — “journal” or “notebooks.” Three such notebooks came to light about a month after the Rebbe's passing, when they were discovered in a dr...

“The life of a tzaddik,” wrote Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, “is not physical but spiritual,” consisting of “faith, awe and love” of G‑d. Accordingly, the passing of a tzaddik—a righteous person or holy man—from earthly life should correctly be viewed as...

If we begin the day with a moment of holiness, if we offer even a small portion of our time to G‑d in the morning, then that experience will affect the rest of the day, infusing it with significance and holiness.

An excerpt from a Philadelphia event exploring the Rebbe’s personal notebooks in their Holocaust era context.

An excerpt from a Philadelphia event exploring the Rebbe’s personal notebooks in their Holocaust era context.

The four-step program presented here in preparation for Shavuot teaches us to channel four human traits—brazenness, ambition, decisiveness and endurance—to good purpose.

If you or I would design a world, I guarantee we wouldn’t do it this way. We would have one center and spread things out from there. Not so when you're dealing with an infinite consciousness.