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The poor man's cabin had a view of the sea, and he sat there, constantly looking at the diamond and rejoicing. He was especially particular to do this during his meals since eating in good spirits is highly beneficial for digestion.

It was decided amongst the leadership of the Central Lubavitch Youth Organization that a fitting preparation for the Rebbe’s 120th birthday is to make a collective unified effort to learn all the Rebbe’s printed Torah to be studied jointly by Jews worldwide.

You must pick up on every hint of clarity you receive, put the pieces together, and form the image in your mind while still walking in darkness.

Whenever a physical war is fought on earth, a spiritual war takes place simultaneously between the respective sarim of the earthly combatants.

This is a totally counterintuitive truth: The more we believe that G-d punishes the guilty, the more forgiving we become; the less we believe that G-d punishes the guilty, the more resentful and punitive we become.

Adar I still has a certain degree of festiveness, so "Bring the joy"

We begin our discussion with an insightful analysis of the word sefer, the generic term applied to the 24 books of the Bible (although some books are described as a megillah).

When a person goes astray and doesn’t behave in the proper way, it takes tremendous willpower for that person to repent and come back to Hashem and to the right way G-d chose for us to live.

Teshuva as well is a method of reengineering our will, rewiring our “wants”. It’s about the decision to be better, to be great, to become our best and truest self.

We were there for each other. If help was needed, there was a shoulder to lean on, both for small, transient upsets such as a difference of opinion with our mothers, and for persistent worries, too.

Practically, I would like to suggest a positive custom regarding one’s conduct on the day of their birthday – and for those who wish, this can be in merit of the Rebbetzin.

Words of holiness can bring repair and healing to the entire world; words of unholiness can bring ruin and destruction.

This week’s Torah portion marks the first time we encounter the idea of a hereditary elite within the Jewish people

When you hear someone else speaking, you must collect all the pieces of sound together and reconstruct them into a connected picture in your mind so that you can grasp their meaning.

Explaining argaman as red does not preclude explaining argaman as orange, for orange is a shade of red mixed with yellow.

I believe that a woman has the power to see beyond what makes sense to the human brain.

If I were to ask you, "What is the wealthiest place in the universe?", what would you answer?

Within minutes, David the handyman was dressed and outside, walking with Yedidya toward their shack. When they arrived, the house was dark. It seems there had been an electrical short, too.

Growth occurs only in the face of resistance and pressure. There is no growth in the comfort zone.

Okay, great. We get it. Prayer is pretty neat. But we need to know how we should pray and what we should pray for.

The Rebbe Rayatz’s sentence was commuted to exile in the distant city of Kostroma. It was his daughter Chaya Mushka who accompanied him.

Bitachon brings one to happiness. They understood that this was a sign from Hashem that He was with them and that He would save them from this gezeirah.

That is why a society based on rights NOT responsibilities, on what we claim from, not what we give to others, will always eventually go wrong.

Some scholars even trace the name of the Angles, one of the Germanic Anglo-Saxon tribes that occupied what later became known as England, to the word in question.

My husband got out of the car and suddenly I see him turning the knob of the garage door and hey, presto, the handle turns and the door magically swings inward!

The mother cried, But he doesn’t keep kosher? The Rebbe said, Love him more.

Our job is not to overcome the challenge, our job is simply to push ourselves as hard as we possibly can … and trust that Hashem will carry us the rest of the way.

The Gemara answers that when Hashem sees how much the nations of the world make the Yidden suffer two tears (kaviyachol) come down from Shamayim into the yam hagadol causing earthquakes and tsunamis.

As the realization that he was a Jew began to change his life, it also transformed his understanding of the world.

If one gives charity because of their compassionate nature, where is the avodah?