COLlive.com presents Shabbos Night Live, a weekly web class with Torah thought, chassidic stories and timely inspiration.
Presented by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Executive Director of the Central Lubavitch Youth Organization (Tzach Hamerkazis) and a veteran columnist and radio broadcaster.
On this week’s program:
Every year in the month of Elul we hear about the parable of the Alter Rebbe of the “king in the field.” What is the difference this year and what did the Rebbe add to it?
Weekly story: The nuanced advice the Rebbe gave to break up a wedding between a Jew and a non Jew.
Rabbi Butman for the shot in the arm!! Is it T’hei Shnas Asidin Lehigoel??
Over the years, I’ve been privy to a number of similar stories where rabbis and parents focus all of their attention on the Jewish half of a couple while treating the Gentile partner like some sort of vermin to be disposed of with due haste. And what does this achieve? Mostly unnecessary pain and suffering. A living, breathing, FEELING human being is made to feel as though something is horribly wrong with him or her and is offered no real explanation of things they shouldn’t be expected to understand on their own. And the Jewish partner watches as someone they… Read more »