Living Torah Archives

Rabbi Yechiel Michel Stern is a prolific author and rabbi of the Ezrat Torah neighborhood in Jerusalem. In the early 1980s, he served on Israel’s ministry of religious services, supervising numerous mikvahs in Jerusalem and across Israel.

Shortly after getting married, Gittel Eidelman moved with her husband to Morocco as emissaries of the Rebbe. Having grown up in England, Morocco wasn’t exactly a natural place for her to end up living. It was an interesting place for them to have ended up, but with the Rebbe’s guidance, they succeeded in having a real impact on the community there. (1959)

In the 1970s the Rebbe began a campaign to promote the observance of Family Purity in the Jewish community.

In the 1970s the Rebbe issued a call for a campaign to strengthen and promote the observance of Family Purity among all segments of the Jewish community.

There are three fundamental mitzvot entrusted to every Jewish woman. Separating challah “from the first of your dough” shows that before benefiting from anything in this world, we “set aside an offering for G‑d.” By knowing that the beginning of everything is for G‑d, the entire home becomes a dwelling place for Him.