Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: Why are we celebrating 70 years when the Rebbe accepted the 'nesius' (leadership) of Chabad-Lubavitch only on Yud Shvat 5711? The answer can be found in the teachings of the Rebbe. Video
Why the Rebbe Hesitated to Accept Leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch
Historic Treasures with Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro - special for Yud Shvat: A never before published letter by the Chossid, R’ Avraham Sender Nemtzov, written to the Rebbe 3 weeks after Yud Shvat 1950 and why the Rebbe hesitated on accepting leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch. Full Story, Video
When Mosdos Lose Their Soul
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How do organizations that were started for the right reasons end up veering from their course? In his weekly Parsha shiur, Rabbi Shais Taub explains, based on a letter of the Rebbe, how Judaism views the balance between the good of the group with that of the individual. Video
How to Address Issue of Suicides
Chassidus Applied With Rabbi Simon Jacobson: Dealing with suicides, can a Tzaddik say an untruth, Chassidus in artistic form, preparing for the 70th anniversary of the Rebbe’s leadership. Video
“A Rebbe is Also a Prophet”
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: Who said that "a Rebbe is also a navie"? How was the Rebbe Rayatz similar to Moshe Rabbeinu? why is it that only Moshe Rabbeinu was "heavy tongued"? Video
The Last Letters of the Rebbe Rayatz
Historic Treasures by Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro - special for Yud Shvat: Interesting details of the Rebbe Rayatz’s visit in Chicago, citizenship documents and the last letters he wrote - just a week before his passing. Full Story, Video
How Does Chabad ‘Explain’ the Holocaust?
Stump the Rabbi: How does Chabad ‘explain’ the Holocaust? Rabbi Yossi Paltiel answers. Video
Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler and the Rebbe
Watch: Chassidus teacher Rabbi Naftali Silberberg briefly discusses the connection between Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, the "Michtav MeEliyahu" and the Rebbe. Video
The Issues With Secular Studies
Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson: Announcing the 6th Annual MyLife Essay Contest, preparing for Chof Daled Teves and Yud Shvat, Moshe’s real birth name, and what's wrong with secular studies and isn't science from Hashem too? Video
The Saying of the Slonimer Rebbe
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The saying of the Slonimer Rebbe that the Rebbe Rashab asked to repeat; The connection of Chof Daled Teves to the Parsha of Vaera; the comment of the Alter Rebbe about the chossid that was "burning." Video
Forger Saved 10,000 Jewish Children From Gas Chambers
How do you react when Jews are being beaten and the story of Adolfo Kaminsky, the forger who Saved 10,000 Jewish children from Nazis. Watch Rabbi YY Jacobson's new lecture presented this week to hundreds of women in Monsey, New York. Full Story, Video
The Maggid Shiur That had Doubts in Emunah
Historic Treasures by Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro: The Maggid Shiur in a Brooklyn Yeshiva that had doubts in Emunah and what the Rebbe suggested he do. And what impressed the wealthy donor about a school principal that he never saw in any other Yeshiva. Video
Do You Know Your Name?
Why the most important thing to know in Judaism may just be your name. Full Story, Video
Blessing Wasn’t Needed – At First
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The blessing the Rebbe gave for a "full recovery" had left a healthy woman puzzled for years...; the similarity between the generation of Yetzias Mitzrayim and our generation. Video
The Rebbe’s Letter to the Activist Trying to Return the Seforim
Historic Treasures by Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro: A letter the Rebbe's wrote in the 1970s to an activist who volunteered to try to rescue the books and manuscripts of the Schneerson Archive from Russia and the significance of the seforim to the Jewish people. Video
May a Gun Be Carried on Shabbos?
With the rise in anti-semitic attacks in New York and around the United States, Crown Heights Beis Din Rabbi Yosef Braun answers the question "May a Gun Be Carried on Shabbos?" Full Story, Video
The 2 Factors of Didan Notzach
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The 2 factors of the Didan Notzach victory and can we act in a form of Geulah while we are still in Golus? The answer is in our Parsha. Video
The Rebel Bochur at Tomchei Tmimim
Historic Treasures by Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro: What did the Rebbe Rashab say when he was asked to expel a rebel Bochur from Tomchei Tmimim? And education and parenting lessons from the Rebbe. Video
Should Lubavitchers Join Daf Yomi?
Stump the Rabbi: What was the opinion of the Rebbe Rayatz when Daf Yomi was first introduced, how did the Rebbe respond to those making a siyum and should Lubavitchers today join the daily Gemara study? Video
Any Relevance to the Secular New Year?
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Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson: Why isn't the Rebbe's Library open to the public, maintaining the Chanukah energy, is there any relevance to the secular new year and why doesn't Judaism have a mechanism to remove corrupt people in power? Video
The Rebbe’s Chanukah Miracle
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The Rebbe's Chanukah Miracle; Chanukah 5690 (1929) that the Rebbe Rayatz spent in Crown Height 90 years ago; The connection between Hey Teves and Yud Shvat, especially this year. Video
Kovetz Haoros Ubiurim Celebrates 40 Years
A special edition of Kovetz Haoros Ubiurim for Chanukah honors the editorial staff of the past 40 years that helped published the journal of Torah, halacha and Chassidus. It was sponsored by Shloime and Mirel Greenwald. Full Story
The Chossid Who Collected Pink Slips
Historic Treasures by Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro: The seforim printed in English and the chossid R' Elimelech Lasker who collected pink slips because he kept being fired from his job - and was very proud of it. Video
Chabad & Friends – From Moscow
Chabad & Friends with historian Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: a visit to the Chabad minyan in Choral Moscow shul where the Rebbe Rayatz said famous Maamar V'Kibel HaYehudim in 1927. Video
An Instruction of the Alter Rebbe That We Don’t Follow?
Chassidus Applied to Chanukah: Did we actually win over Greek Secularism, is it better to be two-faced and be nice or to speak the truth, halachik and hashkafic explanation for public Menorahs and why don’t we follow the Alter Rebbe’s directive to recite Tehillim 119 weekly. Video