Chabad Rebbes

From early childhood on, we have been taught the story of Avraham breaking his father’s idols and his self-sacrifice in spreading the awareness of G‑d in Ur Kasdim. Why then is this story not told – or even directly hinted at – in the Written Torah?

There is an age-old argument regarding the stories of the Tanach. There are those outside the Torah tradition who maintain that they are mere allegories, told with the intent of imparting lessons. Conversely, the Torah world upholds the validity of the Ta...

In the sixties and seventies, a topic that was frequently featured in Jewish journals and public discussions was whether there was a conflict between Torah and science. In a world where scientific breakthroughs were rapidly changing the complexion of day-...

The second section of the Book of Genesis is named after its central character, Noah (Noach in Hebrew), and begins with the account of the great Flood that washed the world clean of the depravity and degeneration into which humanity had sunk since the cre...

Ramban, in his Commentary to the Torah, explains that chronology is not accidental, but follows a pattern paralleling the six days of creation. In that scheme, each day of creation represents a millennium.As our Sages comment on the verse, “A thousand yea...

In the 1950’s, Rabbi Yitzchak Groner, the Rebbe’s shliach (emissary) in Australia, once came to the Rebbe with good news. After several years of effort, he had succeeded in bringing the enrollment in the Lubavitch Girls School, to 250. Happy with his succ...

In Berditchev, a small town just outside of Kiev, there lived a Jew who did not believe in G‑d. From time to time he would meet the holy Berditchever Rebbe, Reb Levi Yitzchak, and they would talk. Once the Rebbe told the non-believer, “You know, that G‑d ...

I. [When speaking about the animals that came to the ark,] the Torah states:Bereishis 7:8. “from the pure [species of] animals and from the [species of] animals that are not pure.” [Commenting on this choice of wording,] in the Talmud, our Sages state:Pes...

Read the Hebrew transcript of the discourse This is the sign of the covenant... I have placed My rainbow in the cloud... and the rainbow will be in the cloud."All footnotes to which an asterisk (* ) was added represent parenthetic remarks included in the ...

In this Sicha, the Rebbe brings together two related lessons of this Sidra: The virtue of Shem and Japheth in covering their father’s nakedness and averting their eyes from it; and the use of a lengthy euphemism in place of the word “unclean,” which teach...