Kosher an overview. This class includes many stories and inspirational anecdotes from the Rebbe and others to support keeping kosher not only to the letter of the law but also to its spirit. We touch on לא תאכל כל תועבה that what is not Kosher is abominable. The Rebbe introduced the two Mivtzoim Kosher and…

Story Telling The place of telling stories in our culture. When is telling stories that didn’t happen exactly as told education and when is it lying. A story that is true, even when it isn’t, is educational. What about negativity and sadness, and learning about the hardships of “the real world”.

The irony is that people don’t give when forced only when they are free. because giving takes strength not weakness.

Healing through joy. This shiur was given to provide chizuk to a community in the wake of a tragic event.

Religious Jews are socially conservative does that mean that they are fiscally conservative as well? Which path is better? Is there a better path?

Why would Hashem allow Lincoln to be assassinated at the end of the Civil War and let him finish the good he started? Change doesn’t happen easy.

A talk given in Minnesota on the meaning of the Jewish people. The Jewish Soul relates back to Avrohom Avinu. The Jewish Body relates to the time the Jewish people left Egypt, crossed the Yam Suf, received the Torah, and were Chosen. A nation is צבו”ר= צדיקים בינונים ורשעים. A nation means even the worst…

The 15th of Menachem Av celebrates the idea of T’shuva and the joy the opportunity brings (it actually reverses the churban Beis HaMikdash) that is even more exhilarating than Yom Kippur.

(From the Slichus) of Tzom Gedalia. Horaisa Derech Teshuva Livas Hashoveiva. The poem included in the Tzom Gerdalia Slichus (as is the case with much of this Slichus) it’s more about Aseres Yemei Teshuva than about Gedalia.

Examples of Baalei Teshuva.