Living Torah Archives

Rabbi Nochum Cohen is an educator and rabbi serving the needs of diverse Jewish communities across Israel. During a trip to the United States in the 1970s, he had an audience with the Rebbe.

Rabbi Sholom Spalter is on the faculty of the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, New Jersey. Before his Bar Mitzvah, his father wrote to the Rebbe. The Rebbe’s memorable response changed his Bar Mitzvah, as well as those of his children. (1967)

At the Previous Rebbe’s Bar Mitzvah, following a custom passed down through the generations, he asked his father a question.

The Rebbe blesses Bar Mitzvah boys to grow up to be chasidim, G-d-fearing, and a Torah Scholars.

Rabbi Shlomo Majeski recalls an audience that he had with the Rebbe on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah. After asking him to share the words of Torah that he would speak at his Bar Mitzvah, the Rebbe offered some words of his own. (1963)

An audience with overseas visitors, Bar Mitzvah boys and Bat Mitzvah girls, and grooms and brides.