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The month is called Menachem Av. Menachem is the Hebrew word for “Consolation,” so the name of this month means that G-d is begging us, His children, “Please, console Me.”

I heard this gevalt Torah from my uncle, in the name of the Maggid of Mezrich, who was one of the 6 million. He could have gotten away from Germany a thousand times, but he said, “As long as there is one Yiddele left in my city of Hamburg, I have to...Read more...

What's the difference between a Rabbi and a Rebbe? A Rabbi is someone who knows the law, he knows what you're supposed to do and what you are not supposed to do. When you ask him something its like hes a little book. It's like when you need directions on a journey, you drive into a gas station and they give you a map. But what happens to you if your car is broken? Does a map help?
So the person working at the gas station says, “I’m...Read more...

Sweetest friends, I want you to know the deepest depths. What gives me the strength to pray before G-d?  What happens to me when I pray? Basically, what is prayer all about? Open your hearts in the deepest way.  

You know why I am standing before G-d and praying?  Because it’s clear to me that I am special to G-d. And despite everything wrong I am doing, all my wrongdoings cannot take away this unbelievable specialty...Read more...

Friends, it has to be clear to us that the whole story of Korach is mamesh the deepest depths.

Korach is someone who never did anything wrong in his whole life. The Yismach Moshe says that in one of his previous reincarnations “I was there when the fight was going on between Korach and Moshe & Aaron. I didn't mingle in because I didn't know which one was which. I'll tell you the truth, Korach was so holy that I mamesh did not...Read more...

How do you know if someone gives you a message from G-d, or if someone gives you a message that is not so much from G-d? If someone comes and says 'listen, I want you to know, you have to change from top to bottom', do you know what kind of person this is? They have a knife in their hand and like a little butcher, they are cutting off this part of you and that part of you. 'Now you are ready to be a real good Jew'. How does it sound to...Read more...

I want you to know the deepest deepest depths. What is the holy book of Bamidbar all about? The essence of Bamidbar is one thing. In Bereishis, you learn the beginning; how G-d created the world, and how he created the beginning of the Jewish People. Shemos is all about how we became a nation and received the Torah. In Vayikra we learn how to serve G-d. But you know something so crazy - you can know Bereishis, Shemos and Vayikra, and you can...Read more...

Can You Keep a Secret?

“The rabbis interpret "leprosy" the skin disease described in this weeks Torah reading, as a punishment for speaking Lashon Hara, (Derogatory Speech)”

Why does a person talk evil about somebody else? What is his sickness? In what part of his kishkes is he sick? According to the Maharal, what is sick is that he can’t keep a secret. He sees someone do something wrong, and he can’t keep it to...Read more...

This is a story of Rav Tzvi Elimelech. He told this story about his father. In those days, people were so poor, but a way of making money was to become a tutor in a rich man’s house. They taught children from Succoth to Pesach, they made a few hundred rubles, and lived on that the whole year. So, his father became a tutor for a rich man. The first shabbos that his father was there, there were no guests. His father said to the rich man,...Read more...

Keeping it Together

"It was in the first month of the second year on the first of the month that the Tabernacle was erected." (Sh'mos 40:17)

The Medrash says (Midrash Tanchuma 39:11) that Moshe Rabbeinu put the tabernacle together and it fell apart every day for a week. Each time it fell apart, the crying was to high heaven. Only at the end of the week did it stay together. Friends, keeping it together is no simple thing, on...Read more...

Exodus 32:32 “Yet now, if You would but forgive their sin--; and if not, erase me now I pray Thee, out of Thy book which you have written"

I want you to know something so special.

Why did the angel come to tell Avraham that S’dom, will be destroyed and at the same time he tells him you will have a son Yitzchak? 

Because this was the whole thing. G-d says “I cannot trust you with Jewish...Read more...

MAKING YOU AWARE OF THE LITTLE THINGS

What's the difference between a holy light and an unholy light?

Very simple. Imagine here I have can't psychedelic lights, the biggest lights in the world flashing like crazy. Then one person comes with a little flashlight. I say to him, “Are you crazy? I don't need it.”

Friends, if the great light is really holy, when someone comes with a little light, it adds so much...Read more...

The Night Before

The night before we heard G-d's voice, it says that Moshe Rabbeinu went to every Jewish house and took them himself to Mt Sinai.

If we knew the schedule, why did Moshe Rabbeinu have to go to every   Rhouse?  The answer is from the holy Alexanderer. The Hole Rebbe of Alexander says that when you’re a pupil of Moshe Rabbeinu, you suddenly see how beautiful everyone else...Read more...

Dreams I Don’t Dare To Dream

“It was on that very day that all the legions of Hashem left the land of Egypt” (Shmos 12:41)

I want you to open your hearts to the deepest depths. There’s a passage that says “Ba'asoscha Nora'os Lo Nekave” – Master of the World, I never dared to hope for the wonders you ended up doing for me (Yishayahu 64:2).

There are certain dreams I have which I hope will...Read more...