Chabad Rebbes

Introduction Perhaps the most difficult thing for anyone to bear in a relationship is indifference, the feeling that a loved one has turned away, as if what is happening does not matter to him or to her. For this reason, the prophecy, Devarim 31:18. “I wi...

Introduction No Jew is a one-dimensional being. Beyond the individual identity that we each possess, we are part of the Jewish people as a collective and our conduct affects not only ourselves, but the entire Nation of Israel as a whole. While true at all...

The ninth section of the Book of Deuteronomy continues the description of Moses’ third and final farewell address to the Jewish people. It begins with the account of how Moses went (Vayeilech, in Hebrew) and installed Joshua as his successor, and continue...

Parshas Vayeilech includes a passage that relates that G‑d will bring retribution on the Jews because of their sins. The Jews will then say: “Is it not because G‑d is not in my midst that all these troubles have befallen me?” The passage continues, explai...

This week’s Torah reading contains the mitzvah to write a Torah scroll and thus brings to mind the following sequence of events. A few days after the Simchas Torah holidays of 5742 (1981), the Rebbe called in several of the leading members of the Lubavitc...

Once the vintage chassid, Reb Peretz Chein, was sitting together at a chassidic gathering with several colleagues. To hide what was then an illegal gathering, they were meeting in a cellar. Their candles had burnt out and the only light was a faint glimme...

The Sidra of Vayelech is usually read on the Shabbat after Rosh Hashanah. And the Rebbe establishes the connection between its content and its place in the calendar. The Sidra describes how Moses, having finished putting the Torah into writing, handed it ...

In the beginning of the Torah portion Vayeilech, Moshe tells the Jewish people that it is time to hand over the reigns of leadership to Yehoshua, for “Today I am 120 years old and I can no longer go out and come.”Devarim 31:2. RashiIbid. explains that thi...

In the Torah portion of Vayeilech, we learn that “at the conclusion of the Sabbatical year, at the beginning of the new seven-year cycle,” during the festival of Sukkos, the king read certain sections of the book of Devarim before all the Jewish people, w...

The Torah portion Nitzavim is always read prior to Rosh HaShanahRambam, Hilchos Tefilah 13:2; Tur and Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim 428.. When the portion Vayeilech is separated from Nitzavim and is read separately, it will be read on the Shabbos before Yo...