Va'eschanan

The Nuclear Option

In this week's portion we read: “You are the least of all the peoples." How can something so tiny be so powerful? At a Purim farbrengen, the Rebbe compared the power of the Jew to the power of the atom bomb.

Based on Toras Menachem Vol. 2, pp. 313-319.
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