His father-in-law passed away 76 years ago. Chassidim implored the son-in-law to become Rebbe, but he refused. Finally, a ...

How did the Rebbe heal a gravely ill – and religiously skeptical – woman? How was his father-in-law revived by a Chassid’s ...

As we noted in our last column, each of the first two paragraphs of Shema includes a verse commanding us to teach Torah to children. The fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer (the Rebbe Rashab, ...

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life. It has revolutionized the way we think about G -d the human soul, the world and our ...

I had never been to this particular shul before, this renovated hospital turned into a synagogue about two miles from where I grew up in Brooklyn. Nor had I ever prayed with chasidim. But the ...

It was a muggy summer morning in Melbourne, Australia. Following the Shachris (morning) service, my fellow rabbinical students and I made our way to the yeshiva dining room. Knowing that we wouldn’t ...

Masechet Avot originally consisted of five perakim. To continue its study on the sixth Shabbat between Pesach and Shavuot, a sixth perek was added to the masechet. As that Shabbat generally falls out ...