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Love your fellow Jew
Charity begins at home. While the non-Jew is our best friend, our fellow Jew is a brother or sister. The measure of a man is how he treats his own. Someone who's a mentch and treats his closest ones with respect will be a great neighbor as well. If someone, however, is nice to strangers but he mistreats his own, that person is completely dysfunctional. For the Jew, our window to the world begins with being at peace with our Jewishness.
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Rabbi Ben-Tzion Krasnianski is director of Chabad Lubavitch of the Upper East Side in Manhattan
 
The conclusion of the book of Tanya discusses the theme of observing Shabbat also on an inner dimension. (From an event celebrating the 19th of Kislev at Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan)
In the title page of Tanya, the Alter Rebbe lays out his objective to guide us in making our Judaism personal and practical.
A Chassidic Perspective on the Final Redemption
Maimonides codifies the belief and anticipation to the coming of Moshiach as an absolute imperative in Judaism. Why is it so necessary to await and year for the Messianic Era?
A Chassidic Perspective on Shavuot, Part 2
Shavuot, when we received the Torah at Sinai, is the culmination of the Exodus on Passover. Yet, on Passover we stay clear of the smallest amount of chometz, but on Shavuot two loaves of leavened bread were offered in the Holy Temple.
A Chassidic Perspective on Shavuot, Part 1
The giving of the Torah reconciles the dichotomy in everything and reveals the unifying essence in both the spiritual and the material.
What are the spiritual underpinnings of Shabbat that makes it a sacred day of rest? This class explains the deeper understanding of why we rest and celebrate Shabbat.
Two ways of looking at Chanukah
The House of Shammai says: “On the first day of Chanukah, one lights eight lights; from here on, one progressively decreases.” The House of Hillel says: “On the first day, one lights a single light; from here on, one progressively increases.” (Talmud, Sha...
Chanukah and the Miracle of Jewish Survival
The Jews' devotion to maintaining their spiritual freedom can only be described as supernatural. What gives us this miraculous strength?
A Jew is a Jew is a Jew
The "Chasidic revolution" of the late 1700s and early 1800s revealed the basic truth that "a Jew is a Jew is a Jew." This premise -- that a Jew always remains essentially Jewish -- also introduced a new approach for dealing with spiritual defects when the...
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How does this relate to the Jews' existence? Are our souls not inherently a "part" of G-d and therefore share His existence?
Is Suffering a Blessing in Disguise?: The Power of Faith to Face Adversity
One of the questions I have on bitachon is as follows, let's say someone is broke , who is to say he should have faith that he will have money perhaps the faith is that even if I stay broke that's the best for me (depressing thought), or if I'm single who is to say trust is that I will get married, perhaps G-d has different plans for me and the faith is that I should be happy single for life .. so how can I ever hope for anything to change, perhaps is about surrender to the idea that this is my portion in this world? what are your sources that I can trust that things will become tangible good? and what about all those people who who never got a tangible good?
No Rabbi, sage or teacher has ever been able to provide a satisfactory counter-argument.
Whoever tells you that they could explain pain and suffering is a fool. We are not looking for explanations the best answer is to remove the question. Nothing less then the coming of Moshiach and an end to pain and suffering could possibly satisfy us. Besides all the explanations are regarding our own suffering not G-d forbid for someone else's pain especially that of a baby! Even regarding our own pain we are commanded to pray to storm heaven and earth to avert the terrible decree because we have a deep inner sense that something is amiss, in a perfect world in G-d's world there should be no pain and suffering period.
The Alter Rebbe is addressing the initiate who is up to chapter 26 in Tanya! explaing the inexplicable mystery of the suffering person paradoxically feeling a greater intimacy with G-d then the one who's obviously blessed.
______Man is the only microcosm who perfectly reflects the vastness of G-d and the 10 sefirot is interlinked and melds into each and every other sefirot_ All other creations even the angels are one dimensional and so are the animals ______________________________________________________________________________________________