Groner, Yehuda Leib

[These are the opening words of the brief prayer recited at the beginning of the festive meal on the first evening of Rosh HaShanah, immediately before tasting the sweet apple dipped in honey: יהי רצון מלפניך שתחדש עלינו שנה טובה ומתוקה — “May it be Your ...

[Lit., “the verses of praise”; Siddur, pp. 30-42.] “This The letter reprinted above, written 23 Tammuz 5709, appears also in Kovetz Lubavitch, Booklet 14, p. 209, [and in Igrois Koidesh (Letters of the Rebbe Shlita), Vol. III, p. 148]. [In the present wor...

“It HaYom Yom, entry for 4 Iyar. is a Jewish custom not to shave or cut a boy’s hair until he is three years old. “The first haircut (Yid.: opsherenish) is a major Jewish custom, the main point of which is training the child to leave his peyos (‘sidelocks...

“Teaching a child the alef-beis together with the vowels [This is a reference to the traditional technique of teaching reading. Instead of phonetically joining the sound of a letter and of a vowel, the child is taught first to name the vowel and the conso...

With From a gloss of the Rebbe Shlita, end of Kuntreis 94. the approach of the year of Shemitah, it is a mitzvah to publicize the view of the Alter Rebbe as recorded in his Shulchan Aruch (Choshen Mishpat, Hilchos Halva’ah, sec. 36): “The most preferable ...

“It is certain,” my revered father (the Rebbe Rashab) once said, “that on the day of their yahrzeit the Rebbeim of past generations arouse Divine compassion for all chassidim, as well as for their wives and children. However, this is only an arousal of a ...

“In Sefer HaSichos 5703, p. 90 and p. 186 ff. the year 5585 (תקפ"ה; 1825), on Shabbos Parshas Seitzei, 13th Elul, the Mitteler Rebbe spoke about the day on which a tzaddik is born, and specifically about the day on which an individual with a comprehensive...

“It is vital and proper that chassidim should have the following three books in their possession: Keser Shem Tov, Or Torah and Tanya. For certain reasons, however, they should not be bound together in one volume. One should study them as much as one wishe...

[For the Rebbe’s teachings on womanhood, see A Partner in the Dynamic of Creation (Sichos In English, N.Y., 5755/1994).] “Women are obliged to study the laws that they need to know, such as those involving family purity, salting meat, yichud, and so on, a...

“With From a letter of the Rebbe Shlita [dated 23 Teves 5725 (1964), and appearing in Teshuvos U’Biurim, p. 418; see also Igrois Koidesh, Vol. IX, pp. 223 and 251]. regard to prostate operations: The vast majority of surgeons sever (or by other means disc...