Chabad Rebbes

Even if we feel it necessary to take another person to court, ensure it remains a “case” and does not descend into a “quarrel.”

Introduction It was a moment that impacted our people’s spiritual history for centuries: Antigonus of Socho taught his students, Avos 1:3. “Do not be like servants serving the master for the sake of a reward. Rather, be like servants who serve their maste...

Introduction At the farbrengen mentioned in the introduction to the previous sichah, P. 302. See Toras Menachem, Vol. 12, p. 2054. the Rebbe emphasized how the study of nigleh, the revealed and largely legalistic dimensions of the Torah, plays an importan...

Introduction In 5714 (1954), Tomchei Temimim (the Central Lubavitcher Yeshivah) located at “770,” Lubavitch headquarters, had a relatively small student body. As such, Shabbos Parshas Ki Seitzei of that year represented a unique occasion, for three yeshiv...

The sixth section of the Book of Deuteronomy continues Moses’ second farewell address to the Jewish people. Moses continues to review many aspects of Jewish law, beginning with the laws governing the behavior of Jewish soldiers when they go out (Teitzei, ...

This Torah reading begins, “When you go out to war against your enemies….” What does a soldier feel when he enters combat? Maimonides writes: “Once a soldier enters the throes of battle, he should rely on the Hope of Israel and their Savior in times of ne...

The way we looked at certain things has changed over the last decade. Ten years ago, there were people — I don’t mean only Rabbis and other men of the cloth, but laymen and business people — who were speaking about an end to war. For example, John Naisbit...

Rabbi Aryeh Levine, famous for his efforts on behalf of Jews imprisoned by the British for their efforts to seek Israel’s independence, shared a unique relationship with his wife. As the couple advanced in years, the woman began to feel several of the dif...

Among the laws detailed in our Sidra is a section about divorce. The Rebbe analyzes the concept of divorce, both as it applies between man and wife and between man and G-d. It pursues certain paradoxes in the Talmudic tractate on divorce (Gittin) and in t...

In the Torah portion of Seitzei we learn:Devarim 25:4. “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading grain.” Concerning this precept, the Alter Rebbe notesShulchan Aruch Admur HaZakein, Hilchos She’alah U’Sechirus par. 22. that one does not transgress this co...