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Why is it that simcha, joy, breaks barriers and changes things? The Tzemach Tzedek, the  third Lubavitcher Rebbe, once visited Jewish soldiers in the czars army. They said to him, “Rebbe, we worked to shine our buttons on our uniforms in your honor. Now please polish our souls that have become coarse and heavy.” These […]

As we leave the month of Adar, where we increase in joy, we enter the month of Nissan, the month of nessim and geula (miracle and redemption). So we have to take the joy of Adar and apply it to our service of Hashem and work on doing things to actualize the redemption. So what

Well now we are entering the month of Nissan, the month of nissim and geula! How exciting is that!! This year as you clean for Pesach, anticipate the redemption. Work hard, scrub your inner self, remove any trace of "chametz" (pride or ego or selfishness). Let’s make ourselves true vessels for the light of Hashem.

One of the universal questions of mankind is why is there suffering? How do we relate to suffering and to our relationship with G-d? Well, anybody who has experienced suffering (may nobody know from such things), be it physical suffering, emotional suffering, or any type of suffering, knows that although friends and family and even

During this pandemic time, we need to think to ourselves “Why is this happening?” Obviously, none of us can really have a definite answer because we are not the Almighty. Only He knows why anything happens in the world. To try to guess would be a waste of time. Some people suggest it is a

Well, we did stamp out Haman and Amalek. We did….but obviously it  was not enough. Obviously the evil in the world is not yet gone. So now that we  did our part, we can only turn to Hakadosh Baruch Hu and beg Him to do His…..to  totally obliterate and remove from the face of the

What is one of the biggest problems in today’s society?  Of course anxiety probably tops the list. But I would venture to say the next issue is frustration. Today almost everyone is frustrated in life.  We are frustrated by things we want to do and cannot; by things we want to get or achieve, and

BELOW IS A LETTER BY THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE ON THE SECURITY OF ERETZ YISRAEL. IT CERTAINLY APPLIES TO TODAY! 3rd Light of Chanukah, 5741 Brooklyn, N.Y. Highgate, London N 16 Greeting and Blessing: This is to acknowledge receipt of your letter and enclosure. I am reluctant, on principle, to involve a layman, however knowledgeable, even if

This week’s Torah portion is Lech Lecha. One of my favorites. it is the story of how G-d commands Avraham to go: leave your country, your birth place, your father’s house and go….but go where? just go and Hashem says He will show Avraham the land He wants him to go to. In life we

Before Moshiach comes, we are taught in Torah, that there is a war of Gog and Magog. There are many different facets to this and many ways the Rabbonim have interpreted this war to be.  It is not an actual physical war between nations. Chassidus explains that the war of Gog and Magog is the