Kabbalah,Mysticism & Chassidus

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  1. A Guide to Good Health — Mental Health

    Letters and talks of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson Learn More

  2. One By One: From the acclaimed weekly Here's My Story Series.

    Read sixty-six vividly diverse stories of guidance, perspective and encouragement. Experience the essence of the Rebbe’s soul-to-soul leadership.

    The psychiatrist with a vision for change. The lonely yeshivah student. The young girl looking for direction. The scientist buried in research work. Each of them was moved by a powerful and timeless encounter with the Rebbe.

    Read One by One, and join them as they open the door to their personal stories. Be uplifted together with them and enrich your life with the Rebbe’s practical guidance and transformative inspiration. Learn More

  3. Through a mix of nature, nurture, social conditioning and free will, we each possess a personalized lens that frames, forms, clouds and distorts the way we see ourselves and the world around us. In order to live in the most meaningful and effective way possible, each of us needs to continually assess and adjust the default frames we have developed.

    In Positivity Bias, we learn that life is essentially good; that positive perception is applicable and accessible to all; that it derives from objective, rational insight, not subjective, wishful imagination, and that positive living is a matter of choice, not circumstance.

    An inspiring and life-enriching tapestry woven from hundreds of stories, letter, anecdotes, and vignettes - Positivity Bias highlights how the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, considered the most influential rabbi in modern history, taught us to see ourselves, others, and the world around us. Learn More

  4. Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, father of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, was a profound Torah scholar who served as the rabbi of the Ukrainian city of Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk). He is said to have composed thousands of pages of original Torah thoughts and discourses. The bulk of these writings are considered lost during the tumultuous years of WWII, and extant today are only those he penned on the margins of the few books he had during his final years, while in exile in Chi’ili, in far-off Kazakhstan. More than a decade after R. Levi Yitzchak’s passing in Alma-Ata in 1944, these writings were brought to the United States, where they reached his illustrious son, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. In the 1970s, they were published in five volumes under the titles of Likkutei Levi Yitzchak and Torat Levi Yitzchak, and the Rebbe began regularly expounding on these terse glosses at his public addresses.

    Comprising sixteen essays, the present work was adapted by Rabbi Eli Block from R. Levi Yitzchak’s original works as well as from the Rebbe’s elucidations. Learn More

  5. A chasidic discourse by Rabbi Shalom DovBer Schneersohn of Lubavitch

    Once a year, on Yom Kippur, the High Priest would enter the Holy of Holies to perform the required duties. Generally, the entry into this innermost sanctuary was forbidden. It was only on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year, that permission was granted for the High Priest alone to enter.

    The current discourse, delivered by R. Shalom Dovber Schneersohn, fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, on Shabbat Parashat Acharei, 5679 (1919), analyzes the biblican verse which forbids any human being from being present in the sanctuary when the High Priest entered to seek atonement. If, as the verse in Leviticus states: "No man shall be int he Tent of Meeting" at that time, how could the High Priest himself be present?

    By Thoroughly exploring the soul and all of its components, the discourse explains how the High Priest, on Yom Kippur, transcended the normative bounds of human limitation and ascended to the sublime level of "no man." This granted him the permission and sanction to enter the Holy of Holies.

    In practical terms, says the Rebbe, this is the challenge of man: To access and utilize the sprarational dimension of the soul to reveal G-dliness within the world, through repentance, the study of Torah, and performance of mitzvot. Learn More

  6. Current today as when originally provided, this volume is a collection of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s counsel to the bereaved. Whether responding to a widow struggling to explain her husband’s death to her children, or to a community whose school was the target of a terrorist attack, the Rebbe, provided support and solace to individuals and communities experiencing loss and tragedy, guiding them toward the hope for a brighter future. Learn More
  7. הכנות חסידיות לנער הבר מצוה

    מאמרי בר מצוה מבוארים, איתא במדרש תילים תרנ"ג, וחזקת והיית לאיש תשכ"ח, איתא במדרש תהלים תשכ"ח, ילקוט חזרת דא"ח, הוראות, מנהגים, סיפורי חסידים Learn More

  8. There is a faith that is superficial, and then there is true faith.

    One who offers a prayer for success in his business, yet employs morally questionably practices, exhibits superficial faith. It is a faith that is theoretical, one that has no practical effect on his life. This is not true faith.

    True faith is defined by its consequence. It is not merely a feeling, but an impetus for something real, something tangible.

    True faith shakes a person to the  deepest part of his being, and demands action: "If this is what you believe, then you must act on it! No matter the difficulties you face, you must remain true to your faith!"

    True faith changes a person.

    And it is Moses who reveals the true faith within each of us.

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  9. Creation and Redemption - החדש הזה לכם ה'ש"ת
    In 1940, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, delivered one of his very first discourses, after settling on American shores. Now for the first time, HaChodesh HaZeh L`Chem, an exploration of the mystical meaning of the Hebrew months of Tishrei and Nissan, has been eloquently translated into English.

    Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the New Year, which also marks the creation of the physical, natural universe, is celebrated in the month of Tishrei. In Nissan, we commemorate the Exodus from Egypt, a supernatural phenomenon by which the Jewish people transcended all constraints of the natural order and thus achieved their redemption.

    Creation and Redemption illuminates this mystical dynamic, expressed in terms of contraction and expansion, as it exists within the world at large, within the cycles of the year, and within each individual as well. Learn More

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