Sunday Dollars

Each Sunday afternoon the Rebbe stood outside his office, sometimes for seven hours straight, handing freshly minted dollar bills to thousands of men, women and children who filled by to receive his blessing.

Many, many years ago my parents took my brother and me to see the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. He gave each of us a crisp dollar bill. Now that I am older, with a family of my own, I feel that there is spiritual value in the dollar. What shoul...

Leadership, to many, means leading the masses. To the Rebbe, leadership meant empowering individuals, each one, one by one.

Jewish Educational Media announced the release of a new installment in its acclaimed “Early Years” series focusing on the Rebbe’s life prior to his taking the helm of Chabad-Lubavitch in 1950.

In his latter years, the Rebbe would stand for hours every Sunday, as thousands of people, both Jew and non-Jew would stand in line to receive his blessing. The Rebbe would look each person intently straight in the eyes for an eternal moment, often smilin...

It was the Rebbe’s birthday, Sunday, the 11th of Nissan, 5746. As the chassidim were finishing their morning prayers, word spread through the shul: “The Rebbe is giving out dollars for tzedakah at the door of his study!” And within moments a line of hundr...

For the first twenty-five years of his leadership, the Rebbe would receive his Chassidim, as well as men and women from all walks of life, in yechidut ("private audience") three times a week. The audiences, held on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, w...

Every Sunday, beginning in 1986, thousands of people would come to see the Rebbe, seeking his blessings and advice. The Rebbe gave each person a dollar bill to be given to charity.

The Rebbe distributes dollars exclusively to children under the age of Bar and Bat Mitzvah.

Robert asked how to obtain a genuine dollar—one given out by the Rebbe. He received an offer he couldn't resist.