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Category Archives: Chabad
What’s The Connection Between Sodom & Moshiach?
From Likutei Sichos, Vol. 35, pg. 74: Before the world was created, God created another spiritual world, a world that collapsed. It collapsed because the components of that spiritual world — the world of Tohu — were highly charged free … Continue reading
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Call Chabad
I’m reading Rabbi Joseph Telushkin’s biography (Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History) and he writes on pages 451: The head of one of the largest Jewish federations in the United … Continue reading
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The Rebbe Vs The Organized Jewish Community
I sometimes think, and here I must gulp before I can summon the courage to express my shameful thought, and I am sure I must be wrong here and I should not even say this out loud, but between you … Continue reading
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The Rebbe On Journalism
From Joseph Telushkin’s biography, Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History: In 1972, the veteran journalist Gershon Jacobson was considering starting a new Yiddish newspaper (Der Tog Morgen Zhurnal had recently … Continue reading
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As Though He Were Human
A Lubavitcher told me he didn’t like this Joseph Telushkin’s biography, Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History because “it treated the Rebbe as though he were human.”
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Why Are Lubavitchers So Happy?
From Joseph Telushkin’s biography, Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History: My wife, Dvorah, often commented that whenever I spent the day researching at 770 Eastern Parkway, the generic address for … Continue reading
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FM: Senior Chabad Rebbetzin ‘Apologizes’ To Abuse Victim – But Only Under Pressure And Only Indirectly
Shmarya Rosenberg writes: Rebbetzin Pnina Feldman ‘apologized’ today to anti-child-sex-abuse activist Manny Waks, a co-founder of the anti-child-sex-abuse nonprofit organization Tzedek. But Feldman’s ‘apology’ was issued to the Australian Jewish News, not to Waks directly, and was only issued after … Continue reading
Kosher Supervision Of America Salaries
I went to Guidestar.org and found this 990 form filed for 2012, which listed salaries as follows: * Binyomin Lisbon: ~$320,000 * Joseph Bodenstein: ~$100,000 * Avraham Rosenfeld: $152,863
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The Rebbe vs The Frankfurt School
The Frankfurt School was a bunch of neo-marxist Jews who dominated social science discourse post WWII and through that power, they shaped the acceptable narratives in the Western world. You might have noticed that most Jews in the social sciences … Continue reading
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Seven Powerful Ideas from the Lubavitcher Rebbe that Can Change Your Life
Here’s a great lecture by R. Shlomo Einhorn. R. Einhorn says that a couple of years ago he went to see Tony Robbins and it was an amazing experience. People walked on fire, etc. The Jewish Chronicle reviews the new … Continue reading
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