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A story of resistance, intense entreatment and eventual, reluctant acceptance. How the reserved son-in-law of the (Previous) Rebbe was induced into assuming the leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch.
The sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, passed away on this date in 1950. Exactly one year later, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson accepted the leadership of the movement, and...
An interview with Rabbi Yitzchak (“Iza”) Kogan, then known as the “Tzadik of Leningrad”
Rabbi Yitzchak Wineberg has served as director of Chabad of British Columbia for over four decades. He remembers a particularly interesting story that took place when someone asked him to reach out...
Mesirut nefesh -- Hebrew term for self sacrifice -- means both "giving of life" and "giving of will." Self sacrifice is not just the willingness to die for one's beliefs; it is the way in which one lives for them. It is the willingness to sacrifice one's "self" -- one's desires, one's preconceptions, one's most basic inclinations.
— The Lubavitcher Rebbe