Living Torah Archives

The food a person eats transforms into his very flesh and blood. One’s character is therefore shaped by what he allows into his mouth. Consuming the meat of a predatory animal, for example, ingrains the trait of cruelty into one’s chemical makeup.

Rabbi Yekusiel Farkash is a prominent halachic authority living in Jerusalem, Israel. An amazing story of how the Rebbe’s advice saved his doctor-friend’s wife from fatal illness, through a change of diet (circa 1975).

Rabbi Yosef Wineberg worked for the central Lubavitcher Yeshiva, and traveled on numerous missions for the Previous Rebbe and the Rebbe over his 60 years of service. In 1955, the Rebbe asked him to visit Madagascar in search of fellow Jews.

For many years, Rabbi Tzvi Greenwald worked at the “Chasam Sofer Home for Boys,” under its Director, Rabbi Akiva Sofer. Rabbi Sofer once shared a story with the boys about an encounter he had with the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom Dovber.

As a college student in 1970, Mr. Freddy Hager was in New York, when he was unexpectedly called in for an audience with the Rebbe.

Torah teaches: “You are what you eat.” The holy books tell us that non-Kosher food desensitizes the person, G-d forbid, and instills cruel traits within him. How crucial it is then for Jewish food to be Kosher to the highest standard!