Maaseh Rav

13 Nissan 5726

12 Tammuz 5726 (1)

12 Tammuz 5726 (2) Like the well known answer that the Tzemach Tzedek gave to someone who asked “why is it that people trample on me in the Bais Hamedresh?” He answered “what do you expect, when you spread yourself out on the floor. Where ever one wants to step, you will be there to be stepd upon!” (Maaseh Rav Tape #7 Side 2 the third Sicha)

Purim 5727 When it was the custom to come together and tell over Purim Torah. Someone related that the word יין (wine) has the same numerical value as the word לקח (cake). Someone asked “how is this possible, יין has the numerical value of 70 and לקח has the numerical value of 138? He answered “for this problem there is a simple solution, to have more יין, and if two times יין comes out to be more...

12 Tamuz 5727

19 Kislev 5722

11 Nissan 5722

Lag Baomer 5722

Simchas Beis Hashoeiva 5723 …. As the known story of Reb Shmuel Munkes and the Alter Rebbe. We spoke earlier, when they came to arrest the Alter Rebbe he went into hiding with a couple of Chassidim to discus the situation. Amongst those who were present was Reb Shmuel Munkes. The Alter Rebbe turned to him and asked, “What do you think should be done?” Reb Shmuel replied, that the Rebbe should give...

25 Teves 5723 It is said of the Baal Shem Tov that he would never want money left in his house overnight. The “left over” money would disturb him of his Cheshbon Hanefesh at Krias Shema. He’d therefore give all away before he’d prepare himself for sleep, night after night. This type of conduct is foreign to American Culture. Here in America, one must first have a savings account together with a ch...

10 Shevat 5723

10 Shevat 5724

Purim 5724

12 Tamuz 5724 This is similar to the next story I heard from the Frierdiker Rebbe. He told that in Russia the train had three classes, third class, second class and first class. It was said in a comical way that a rich person travels in the second class and a poor person travels specifically in first class. What is the explanation? A rich person travels on his own money and his own money he is car...

20 Av 5724

19 Kislev 5725 (1) salt story

19 Kislev 5725 (2)

19 Kislev 5726 (1)

19 Kislev 5726 (2)

19 Kislev 5726 (3)

15 Tammuz 5720 When the Baal Shem Tov would learn with children, he used to bring them to the Cheder, and teach them (on the way) Modeh Ani and Shema Yisroel and to sit (in shul) and answer Baruch Hu U’Varuch Shmoy and Amen and Amen Yehay Shmay Rabah. He latter told over that his most enjoyable years were those years when he would learn with the children and bring them back and forth to and from t...

Purim 5721 The Rebbe once related about Reb Hillel Paritsher. We find written in Seforim that when crossing a bridge you should go by foot not on a carriage, -this most probably does not apply by today’s bridges- it’s something to do with watching your health. He would travel then with a carriage, approaching a bridge one time he was sleeping but as the carriage got closer he awoke from his sleep...

Simchas Beis Hashueva 5722

29 Tishrei 5722 As it’s known the cute story which is told over, how a big rabbi once asked, “Why is it, when someone comes and asks me a Halachik question regarding a big ox, which is worth a lot of money, and I tell him that it is not kosher, he doesn’t put up a fuse about it to investigate again perhaps I can find it to be kosher. On the other hand, when two people come to me with a dispute reg...

19 Kislev 5722 (1)