Introduction Everyone is familiar with feelings of unworthiness and shame. We tend to walk life looking over our shoulder, waiting to notice who might be watching. Days turn into races of becoming the ‘good enough’ everyone else seems to have and be; money and status begin to overshadow the quality of life itself. When we
Dealing with the stress of life Two kinds of stress Stress is a daily struggle. You finally made that bar mitzvah? Then your younger kid starts having trouble in school and you think you’ll need to get them tested. As that’s getting sorted out, your refrigerator dies just before Shabbos and you have a mad
What a niggun is: A niggun is the window to the soul(1). A niggun is a way to wordlessly express the soul. Because it needn’t have words, its capability to express is not bound by the restrictions of speech. It is for this reason that niggunim are sung so often by farbreingens; and while they
Transforming Darkness into Light, Negative into Positive We all face negative situations and hardships in life. How do we react to them? Is the best advice to duck and wait for things to improve – “hide for a brief moment until the wrath has passed,”[1] as the Prophet Isaiah puts it? Or is there a
Inspired by the Hayom Yom of 8 Adar Aleph HAYOM HOM: Shabbat 8 Adar I 5703 Torah lessons: Chumash: T’ruma, Shevi’i with Rashi. Tehillim: 44-48. Tanya: Ch. 28. Even if (p. 121)…of the L-rd. (p. 123). The Alter Rebbe once summoned a young disciple of the Maggid and said to him in his customary chant:
Are you a teacher? Parent? Mentor? Have you ever had to face that defeated look in the eyes of a five-year-old, ten-year-old, or fifteen-year-old? Somehow, there’s a void that nothing seems to fill. Wanting to see some genuine effort, you pull out all the extrinsic rewards you can invest. They work hard, earning stars on
There’s a story of a man who came to the Maggid and asked him to help him learn how to control his thoughts. The Maggid advises him to go see a Talmid of his, R’ Zev of Zhitomer, to find an answer to his question. Arriving at his destination, the man knocked on the Tzaddik’s
Introduction In this essay, I’d like to bring out how Chassidus views special needs and how to create a relationship with them. Although the best the world can say is “we’ll try to give him the best life he can have despite his lackings, and we’ll work with what little we have”, in this essay
“Unifying Force” depicts a coin about to be placed in a charity box. The fiery energy and passion of this action elevates the mundane coin and sets a reciprocal effect in motion initiating a flow of energy into all aspects of the world; mountains, lakes, fishes etc. It illustrates the Chassidic teaching that we are
Everything that happens is for a purpose. Chassidus explains this concept in many places. In Sefer Hamaamarim(Kuntreisim, vol 2, page רעט), the Frierdiker Rebbe writes about this in detail. Here is what it says in brief: “We learn from the Torah of the Baal Shem Tov, that every created thing is being watched and directed
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