Living Torah Archives

Rabbi Elchanan Jaacobovez is a veteran educator living in Nachlat Har Chabad, Israel. He was married in 1966. (Mid 1970s)

Rabbi Moshe Weiss serves as director of Chabad of Sherman Oaks, California. He was married in 1983 but struggled to have children. He visited the Rebbe a number of times and merited to receive numerous blessings, but they never seemed to materialize. It was only many years later that something finally changed. (1991)

Esther Solomon is a veteran educator living in Israel. In 1969, she was diagnosed with an inability to give birth. Desperate for her own children, she and her husband flew to New York and arranged an audience with the Rebbe. After reprimanding them for not placing more faith in G-d, the Rebbe gave the couple a blessing. But the story only reached its conclusion many years later.