Category: Rebbe Letters

It's Kind of Personal

   |   By  |  0 Comments

Over the years, the Rebbe answered tens of thousands of letters, a portion of which are printed in the series known as Igros Kodesh. In these letters, we find a treasure trove of compassion, wisdom, faith, and practicality—but perhaps most importantly, a direct path to personal insight into the Rebbe's approach to a vast range of life's issues.

Join Rabbi Shais Taub together with people from all over the world in studying Thirty Letters in Thirty Days during the month leading up to the celebration of the Rebbe's 120th birthday on 11 Nissan.

SoulWords.org/Letters

Play

Letter 1- Should a Farbrebgen Keep You Away from Home?

   |   By  |  0 Comments

The inaugural class of a series on studying the published letters of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Rabbi Taub provides a brief background about the letters printed in Igros Kodesh and then studies one letter.

This letter was addressed to the men and boys of Kfar Chabad in Israel and discusses the need to balance chasidic fervor with attention to one's home life as well as how one can actually enhance the other.

Play

Letter 2- How to Be a Spiritual Trendsetter

   |   By  |  0 Comments

This letter was written by the Rebbe to a young bride encouraging her to be an "early adopter" of certain chasidic customs including covering her hair with a "sheitel."

Play

Letter 3- Faith, Fertility, and When to Listen to Doctors

   |   By  |  0 Comments

In response to a woman who feared she was infertile, the Rebbe tells her to hold strong in her trust in Hashem and then calls upon her to actualize her potential to influence her surroundings.

Play

Letter 4- Impress the Neighbors or Please the Rebbe?

   |   By  |  0 Comments

The Rebbe writes to a husband who blames his lack of spiritual growth on his wife. The Rebbe does not accept this excuse and implores him to resolve his own lack of clarity and then he will see that his wife is his greatest support.

Play

Letter 5- Advice for a Rabbi

   |   By  |  0 Comments

The Rebbe gives advice to Rabbi Herschel Shusterman a"h of Chicago about dealing with both youth and adults.

Play

Letter 6- Finding Your Special Mitzvah

   |   By  |  0 Comments

Each one of us has a special mitzvah in which we are meant to shine more than others. One must be extra vigilant about this particular mitzvah and realize that the evil inclination will try to distract us from it even by getting us to do good things that are not our special mitzvah.

Play

Letter 7- Stay Above Politics

   |   By  |  0 Comments

The role of a Jewish school was once merely to ensure that a child become an educated Jew. Today, however, the school's purpose is far more basic than that, i.e. to see to it that the child remain within the fold of Judaism. Torah institutions must appeal to all kinds of Jews and it is not worth the risk of turning someone away by affiliating the school with anything connected to politics or partisanship.

Play

Letter 8- Youth Should Not Think About Earning a Living

   |   By  |  0 Comments

The Rebbe expresses pain about young people who are overly fixated on how they will make a living in the future.

Play

Letter 9- Should Unpaid Teachers Strike?

   |   By  |  0 Comments

The Rebbe writes to a teachers' union warning them about the irrevocable harm that can be caused by a teachers' strike.

Play

Letter 10- Encouraging Others to Write to the Rebbe

   |   By  |  0 Comments

The Rebbe asks someone who deals with Israeli soldiers if he can encourage them to correspond with him.

Play

Letter 11- Education Outside of the Classroom

   |   By  |  0 Comments

The Rebbe writes to a mashgiach in the Toras Emes yeshiva in Jerusalem about the importance of educating students beyond their academic studies.

Play