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I am a voracious talmid chochom. I am versed in the secular. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am the Old Country. I am the New World. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am a Rogachover musmach. I am a college graduate. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am European. I am American. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am the son-in-law of a tzaddik in a shtreimel and black coat. I am a U.S. Navy civilian engineer in a suit and tie and gray hat. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am a mysterious mystic. I am salt of the earth. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I saw the past. I see the future. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am fiercely tradition-true. I am an innovator. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am an open-minded tolerant liberal fanatically bent on communicating my unimpeachable Torah absolutes. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I dispense down-to-earth advice to the intellectual. I direct divine blessing to the infertile. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am a dozen, a hundred, a thousand young rabbis worldwide. I am one rabbi in Brooklyn. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am a man who made a movement. I am a man who rarely moved. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am a beard and yarmulke in Pleasanton. I am a mikvah in Baranquilla. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am a sheitel in Daytona Beach. I am a chupah in Moscow. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am a sefer Torah in Oxford. I am a black hat and kapotah in Berlin. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am a young dead couple in Mumbai. I am the tears of millions. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am generations restored to G-d. I am the Jewish world redefined. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am a Chosid. I am a Rav. I am a Misnagid. I am a Rosh Yeshivah. I am frum. I am not yet frum. I am a Jew. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am whatever a Jew needs, wherever a Jew is. I am Ahavas Yisroel, I am Klal Yisroel. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I am part of you. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe. And so are you.
In tribute to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneersohn, zecher tzadik livracha (1902-1994), who turned Lubavitch into a worldwide force for kiruv rechokim and Jewish support services. The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s 15th yahrzeit, the 3rd of Tammuz, falls this year today on Thursday, June 25, 2009.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 08:17 AM Anonymous Says:
Zecher Tzadik Livracha
"Young dead couple in Mumbai. I am the tears of millions"
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Jun 25, 2009 at 08:20 AM Anonymous Says:
May the z'chus of the rebbe's life, midos and maasim tovim provide a basis for hashem to grant shalom al KOL yisroel (chassidim and misnagdim, zionist and hareidi). Even those who were not followers of the rebbe today acknowledge him as a transformational figure in yiddeshkeit for his own chassidim and for all the rest of us for generations to come.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 08:38 AM REBBEH FAN! Says:
the rebbeh loved ALL people and regardless.... he was the epitome of "love the sinner, hate the sin" true unconditional love and care, a true OHEV YISROEL!
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Jun 25, 2009 at 09:50 AM Get Real Says:
"I am not yet frum"? If you write that you coud write "I am a non-Jew" because the Rebbe had a mivtza of sheva mitzvos bnei Noach!
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Jun 25, 2009 at 09:13 AM Rebbe Says:
I think one may say that the Lubavitcher Rebbe was the greatest Jew on earth in all aspects - with the likes of: Moshe Rabbenu, the Rambam etc. in their time. How lucky was our generation to have this great sage amonst us.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 09:09 AM ZR Says:
The Lubavitcher Rebbe: Shleimus Hatorah, Shlaimus Haam, Shleimus Hooretz.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 09:04 AM Izzy Says:
wow an amazing poem!!! thank you Hashem for giving us the Rebbe!!
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Jun 25, 2009 at 08:55 AM thank Says:
As a Lubavitcher Chossid, this moved me to tears.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 09:57 AM someone who knows the truth Says:
who ever wrote this thank you. my eyes filled with tears and its so true and beautiful
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Jun 25, 2009 at 08:54 AM Anonymous Says:
While true to his own tradition of chassidus, the rebbe was respectful of others claimed to follow a different derech to chassidus and provided them some legitimacy
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:17 AM yearner Says:
I'm crying not just bc I have no parnasah. I'm crying not just because I don't daven or learn properly. I'm crying not just because my wife left me and our beautiful kinderlach for nothing. I'm crying because we need our father,teacher and Rebbe back begolui NOW! Please Ha-shem send us Moshiach NOW!
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:47 AM Anonymous Says:
I just returned from the Ohel and saw this on the internet.I thougt to myself how well you expressed the scene. You hear 70 different languages, you see bekeshes and beeber hit and kipah srugahs. Yet all stand together and beg Aveinu Shehbashomayim for Moshiach now and the return of our Rebbe. Thank you for the beautiful poem and beautiful sentiments. My heart was touched and I truly appreciate the gesture. May I ask who is the author?
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:45 AM Anonymous Says:
kiruv rechokim!!! the rebbe said no jew is rachok its kiruv krovim!
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:36 AM Anonymous Says:
The Rebbe objected to the use of the term "Kiruv Rechokim". We don't have the right to judge who is far and who is close.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:57 AM Jeff Says:
Only one thing, the Rebbe did not know the word 'I'.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:57 AM Dovid Says:
As a 30 something having grown up in CH I have always been a fierce defender of my Rebbe's honor. It always bugged me when people put descriptors beside the Rebbe's name because no descriptor was ever adequate. This poem is the first piece I've ever read that described the Rebbe yet sat comfortably with me. Not because it described the Rebbe in every way, but because it didn't try. To the author: reading this has made me feel connected to the Rebbe today although I am not able to participate in any live farbrengen or go to the Ohel. Thank you.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM wounder Says:
“ I think one may say that the Lubavitcher Rebbe was the greatest Jew on earth in all aspects - with the likes of: Moshe Rabbenu, the Rambam etc. in their time. How lucky was our generation to have this great sage amonst us. ”
can you tell me one reason why this rebbe was more then let's say the rebbe of Belz who was one of the holliest ppl in our times?
why say that the rebbe was the chosen one of all generations? name me one Godel who said so.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:53 AM Anonymous Says:
was at the ohel this morning and saw on video the Rebbe explaining that its kiruv kroivim not rachoikim
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:23 AM didnt know Says:
Tears in my eyes and my family reading this togther. We decided we will light a candle in his honor and take another mitzvah. Thank you Rebbe that we did not know.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:21 AM Thank You Says:
And thank you again, this was beautiful,, I am so emotional today,, thinking that the only way my children can see the Rebbe himself in action is through a video,, they will never be able to look into his eyes, and feel what I felt, without Moshiach to take us out of this horrible golus. Rebbe,, RATEVET! Please,, Hashem, bring Moshiach NOW!!
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:20 AM nice Says:
very nice poem, yasher koach. to the people out there who wish they had met the Rebbe, there is something you can do: learn from the vast amount of amazing Torah he taught, both in Nigleh and in Nistar!
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:20 AM Anonymous Says:
Part of the Rebbe's desire to reach out to every Jew, including non-orthodox, as well as mentally disabled, may come from the fact he personally had a brother (Yisrael Aryeh Leib, who the Rebbe wrote about in the Yizkorbuchs after the war), as well as a brother in law (Mendel Horonstien) who was not orthodox, and his brother who was killed in the war was mentally challenged.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:05 AM michali Says:
Thank you VIN.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM Anonymous Says:
All of you are a bunch Kool-Aid drinkers and need to have your head examined.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 11:10 AM DallasYid Says:
I am so moved by this post - I have no words.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 11:15 AM Anonymous Says:
“ can you tell me one reason why this rebbe was more then let's say the rebbe of Belz who was one of the holliest ppl in our times?
why say that the rebbe was the chosen one of all generations? name me one Godel who said so. ”
The rebbe would not want us to be in the "rankings game" as to who was the biggest gadol of our times. Most Lubavitch would acknowledge that the Belzer rebbe, ZTL, also had many significant acomplishments and was an ehrleche yid.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 11:26 AM Chosid Says:
Yes, this is a tiny glimpse of our Rebbe. It would be advisable to change and remove the firs word "I am" and replace maybe with "we", because by the Rebbe there was never such a word as I, the Rebbe devoted every second, minute, hour, day 24/7 for Klall Israel in general, and every single individual Yid in particular. The Rebbe looked at every yid's Neshomo how he could connect it to Hashem and how to help every Yid Begashmius. This was and is his life. I’m proud to be his Chosid, he has changed the world, I miss him very much.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 11:30 AM Anonymous Says:
Wonderful post about the Rebbe zt"l. May his chassidim continue their wonderful work all around the world.
But it's a shame that some commenters (eg #11, #12) spoil it by bringing in the flavor of avodah zara.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 12:13 PM Anonymous Says:
to # 29 what part of comments # 11,12 is avodah zorah???????
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Jun 25, 2009 at 12:25 PM Anonymous Says:
“ to # 29 what part of comments # 11,12 is avodah zorah??????? ”
Its because comments no. 11 and 12 can be read to imply that the rebbe was moishiach, somthing that most yidden, including almost all of chabad, view as a form of avodah zorah. Lets not get sidetracked on that nareeshkeit on today, the yahrtzeit o fthe rebbe.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 12:23 PM Anonymous Says:
Hashem runs the world, not the Rebbe. As great as the Rebbe was, he was a nivra, not a borei. Moshe Rabbeinu's kever was hidden so that people wouldn't daven to him or turn him into an avoda zara. Doesn't the Rebbe deserve the same zechus of not being turned into avoda zara?
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Jun 25, 2009 at 12:22 PM Moshiach Now Says:
“ Wonderful post about the Rebbe zt"l. May his chassidim continue their wonderful work all around the world.
But it's a shame that some commenters (eg #11, #12) spoil it by bringing in the flavor of avodah zara. ”
I'm not sure what your issue is, you seem to be looking for problems. Perhaps you're not a chossid and therefore don't understand the connection a chosid has to a Rebbe. Perhaps you should take a lesson from this week's parsha and understand that although "kol h'eida kulom k'doshim" (the whole nation is holy) we still need a Moshe Rabeinu - a Rebbe. We are all part of a body, and the Rebbe is the head.
It's very easy to judge anything as A"Z if you're unaware of what's going on. Perhaps if you'd learn the last ma'amar the Rebbe gave out, called "V'atah T'tzveh" (ask any Lubavticher and he'll show you where you can find it) and you may have a better appreciation for what a Rebbe is. While you're at it maybe review the halochois of Avodah Zara.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM Anonymous Says:
"I am whatever a Jew needs, wherever a Jew is."
are you saying "you" are chas vesalom god??? seemingly a lot of chassidim viewed the Rebbe as some type of force and power to himself .
The question is why? and what we can do to take this apikoires out of peoples heart.
I am not writing this to make machlokes but to save yidden from the worst types of aveira.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 12:33 PM Anonymous Says:
“ Wonderful post about the Rebbe zt"l. May his chassidim continue their wonderful work all around the world.
But it's a shame that some commenters (eg #11, #12) spoil it by bringing in the flavor of avodah zara. ”
I too am waiting for T'chias Hamesim, is that avoda zara?
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Jun 25, 2009 at 12:04 PM Shmuly Says:
Thank you VIN for publishing this piece. I am unable to travel to the Ohel as I have for the past 14 years. Reading this has been an emotional experience, full of inspiration and motivation. Thank you!
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Jun 25, 2009 at 11:46 AM Anonymous Says:
“ All of you are a bunch Kool-Aid drinkers and need to have your head examined. ”
and the rebbi would still say he loves you.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 12:42 PM Anonymous Says:
beautiful. yahser koaich!
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Jun 25, 2009 at 12:37 PM esther Says:
“ Its because comments no. 11 and 12 can be read to imply that the rebbe was moishiach, somthing that most yidden, including almost all of chabad, view as a form of avodah zorah. Lets not get sidetracked on that nareeshkeit on today, the yahrtzeit o fthe rebbe. ”
when moshiach comes we will be reunited with all our tzadikim;this is a yearning that all yidden share. #32,davening at kivrei tzadikim as when kalev did so at the maharas hamachpilah is an acient jewish tradition.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 11:39 AM Anonymous Says:
I read this to my wife and we both cried…
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Jun 25, 2009 at 12:50 PM Boruch Says:
“ I'm crying not just bc I have no parnasah. I'm crying not just because I don't daven or learn properly. I'm crying not just because my wife left me and our beautiful kinderlach for nothing. I'm crying because we need our father,teacher and Rebbe back begolui NOW! Please Ha-shem send us Moshiach NOW! ”
May Hashem send you and all of us a yeshuah now.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 12:48 PM Chaim B. Says:
A harty and 100% poem. Nicly writen.
Zol zain a gutte better. What a gaint.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 01:01 PM Anonymous Says:
“ can you tell me one reason why this rebbe was more then let's say the rebbe of Belz who was one of the holliest ppl in our times?
why say that the rebbe was the chosen one of all generations? name me one Godel who said so. ”
The Rebbe of belz doesn't need you to defend him. He does not want you to use his honor to create a machlokos. Bsodom al teichad kvoidi.
Please lay of the Tzadid the Belzer Rebbe.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 01:12 PM Out of Towner Says:
“ All of you are a bunch Kool-Aid drinkers and need to have your head examined. ”
My Bubby a"h always said, "if you have nothing nice to say don't say anything at all"
The Poem is beautiful and says a lot about a man who did a lot! We should merit the coming of Mosiach speedily...
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Jun 25, 2009 at 02:48 PM Anonymous Says:
thanks for the great poem, i cried when i read it.
i really really miss the Rebbe
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Jun 25, 2009 at 02:46 PM Anonymous Says:
i just watch a video of Mr. chase praising the Rebbe for all his done and doing for all his thought and teaches...
the Rebbes reply was "the best praise a teacher wishes for, is that his students follow in his way and live up to his teachings!"
oh how much we must live up too, let us not let the Rebbe down!
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Jun 25, 2009 at 02:33 PM Non Hassid Says:
what the Rebbi accomplished is far greater than the mind can perceive! he broke through all barriers and sects of Judaism! uniting humanity by our common innate godliness
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Jun 25, 2009 at 02:24 PM chosid Says:
Very very nice. Please learn a little extra or do another mitzvah bhidur on this special day.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 04:08 PM Anonymous Says:
“ "I am whatever a Jew needs, wherever a Jew is."
are you saying "you" are chas vesalom god??? seemingly a lot of chassidim viewed the Rebbe as some type of force and power to himself .
The question is why? and what we can do to take this apikoires out of peoples heart.
I am not writing this to make machlokes but to save yidden from the worst types of aveira. ”
"“"I am whatever a Jew needs, wherever a Jew is."
are you saying "you" are chas vesalom god???"
Clearly, the poem is saying that wherever you are, such as Mumbai, whatever you need, such as kosher food or a liason to the government, there is a Chabad house there to serve your needs - thanks to the Rebbe. You don't need to take a negative interpretation of this verse unless you're just looking for trouble.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 05:23 PM BEN ISRAEL Says:
I thing the Lubavitcher Rebe has a lot of similarity to the Rambam, in his knowledge etc. same as the Rambam in his life time had some Gdolim disagree with him sharply, but after his ptira all recognize is gadlus, same by the Lubavicher.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 05:55 PM Ahavas Yisroel seeker Says:
“ can you tell me one reason why this rebbe was more then let's say the rebbe of Belz who was one of the holliest ppl in our times?
why say that the rebbe was the chosen one of all generations? name me one Godel who said so. ”
I'll not answer your question. Someone wrote a well written piece. It inspired many. Whether or not you want to be mdayek in the piece as if it were min Hashomayim is your concern. The piece has clearly inspired many. Since you picked on Belz, let me tell you two incidents that are reported on video, the first by an aid neemon and the second incident is on tape. Once some place in Europe before the war the Rebbe went to the Belzer Rebbe to give him shulem as is their custom. The Belzer Rebbe had his eyes closed all the time due to some illness. He would shake people's hands through a towel. Upon shaking the Lubavitcher Rebbe's hand (he was not yet rebbe, and did not introduce himself) the Belzer Rebbe opened his holy eyes to look at the Lubavitcher Rebbe and at the same time took his hand out of the towel and shook his hand again, flesh to flesh. The present Belzer Rebbe came to visit the Rebbe. When the Rebbe suggested that he can take off his coat the Belzer Rebbe said in Yiddish, "I came here to be warmed." One more story: Two frum little boys, one Lubavitch and one not, had this exchange. The non-Lubavitcher boy: "My father hates your Rebbe." The Lubavitcher boy, "My Rebbe loves your father more than your father hates him."
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Jun 25, 2009 at 05:46 PM ZR Says:
“ I thing the Lubavitcher Rebe has a lot of similarity to the Rambam, in his knowledge etc. same as the Rambam in his life time had some Gdolim disagree with him sharply, but after his ptira all recognize is gadlus, same by the Lubavicher.
”
Not only did people disagree with the Rambam, they even publicly burned the Rambam's sforim. They felt the Rambam’s meddling in philosophy and secular knowledge (medicine) was inappropriate. But within a few generations all Yiddin acknowledged the greatness of the Rambam.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 07:34 PM Milhouse Says:
“ Part of the Rebbe's desire to reach out to every Jew, including non-orthodox, as well as mentally disabled, may come from the fact he personally had a brother (Yisrael Aryeh Leib, who the Rebbe wrote about in the Yizkorbuchs after the war), as well as a brother in law (Mendel Horonstien) who was not orthodox, and his brother who was killed in the war was mentally challenged. ”
Since when was Mendel Horenstein not Orthodox?!
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Jun 25, 2009 at 07:31 PM Milhouse Says:
“ Hashem runs the world, not the Rebbe. As great as the Rebbe was, he was a nivra, not a borei. Moshe Rabbeinu's kever was hidden so that people wouldn't daven to him or turn him into an avoda zara. Doesn't the Rebbe deserve the same zechus of not being turned into avoda zara? ”
Tzadik gozer HKBH mekayem. Bemi nimlach, benishmosehen shel tzadikim. Sholosh maftechos hen... uchesherotzo HKBH nosan lohem latzadikim.
And who told you that's why Moshe's grave was hidden?
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Jun 25, 2009 at 07:24 PM check this out Says:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWw1PGVJAzo
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Jun 25, 2009 at 06:49 PM Anonymous Says:
Well done! The author is deserving of an award.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 06:06 PM Greater than great Says:
“ can you tell me one reason why this rebbe was more then let's say the rebbe of Belz who was one of the holliest ppl in our times?
why say that the rebbe was the chosen one of all generations? name me one Godel who said so. ”
You dont need a godol to say so.....it is quite obvious. The rebbe changed the world, brought thousands and thousands of baal tshuvas, opened up chabad houses and mikvehs in every corner of the world. The rebbes love and care for every jew is like non other........I am sure you already know this.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 08:26 PM Anonymous Says:
The line I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe. And so are you. sent chills up my spine! We have a lot to live up to, to make ourselves into a minutre baston of Judiasim and love.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 08:20 PM Anonymous Says:
“ "I am not yet frum"? If you write that you coud write "I am a non-Jew" because the Rebbe had a mivtza of sheva mitzvos bnei Noach! ”
actually, not.
There is a major difference "L'havdil elef Havdolos" to compare a non-frum Jew to a goy.
What are you thinking????
Just because a jew is not yet practicing, does not negate where his soul originaly eminates from, which is part of the soul of the manhig hador, such as the Lubavitcher Rebbe has been.
A goy is not on par with a not-yet fully practicing Jew.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 08:57 PM Anonymous Says:
“ "I am whatever a Jew needs, wherever a Jew is."
are you saying "you" are chas vesalom god??? seemingly a lot of chassidim viewed the Rebbe as some type of force and power to himself .
The question is why? and what we can do to take this apikoires out of peoples heart.
I am not writing this to make machlokes but to save yidden from the worst types of aveira. ”
not a force and power to himself.
But a force and power who was so connected to both, the Aibeshter, and to every single Jew, so that he was a force and power to Hashem and to the Jew in need.
One Jew's pain was his pain, one Jew's joy, was his joy, When anyone needed direction, the Rebbe always came through to help that Jew who was in need.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:23 PM Anonymous Says:
“ I thing the Lubavitcher Rebe has a lot of similarity to the Rambam, in his knowledge etc. same as the Rambam in his life time had some Gdolim disagree with him sharply, but after his ptira all recognize is gadlus, same by the Lubavicher.
”
Comparing the rebbe or anyone else who lived since the time of the RMB"M to the RMB"M is absured.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:20 PM To #51 Says:
You missed one thing. When the Belzer Rebbe shook the hand of the Lubavitcher Rebbe flesh to flesh, he said "these are such pure, holy hands."
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Jun 25, 2009 at 10:20 PM tzoorba Says:
“ Tzadik gozer HKBH mekayem. Bemi nimlach, benishmosehen shel tzadikim. Sholosh maftechos hen... uchesherotzo HKBH nosan lohem latzadikim.
And who told you that's why Moshe's grave was hidden? ”
The Lubavitcher Rebbe z"l was one of the great tzaddikim of the last dor. He is joined by R' Moshe Feinstein, the Satmer Rebbe, Rav Hutner, the Steipler Gaon and others zichronom libracha.
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Jun 26, 2009 at 06:26 AM "kiruv rechokim" Says:
To the Lubavitcher Rebbe there is no 'rechokim' all Jews are our brothers, we are all KROVIM.
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Jun 26, 2009 at 04:23 AM מ.פ.ח Says:
I would like to add:
I am the one who had no children, and people with six or seven children would ask me to pray for them for more children. Every time, thousands of times, this would happen, it would break my heart as I prayed to Hashem:
"Please Hashem give Ploni bas Plonis another beautiful and healthy child. I am not asking for myself, as I have none, for You so willed it, but I am asking for Ploni bas Plonis" The angels would cry when they heard these prayers. And Hashem would wipe off their tears (K’evayochel) and proclaim: "How could I refuse prayers that are so pure without any self-interest. I must fulfill them immediately”. And He did.
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Jun 25, 2009 at 11:51 PM My Gosh Says:
Why can't we get along? The Lubavitcher Rebbe (as well as all of our Gedolim) emphasize achdus (unity) but for over 2000 years we haven't gotten it right yet...lets get it right this year. So please, all you arguing comment people - just relax. You won't make anyone understand your point if you attack people. Please don't attack each other...there are billions of others to do that for you. Unify and welcome Hashem...
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Jun 26, 2009 at 07:34 AM Meni in Baltimore Says:
Thank you for this moving tribute. Now the Rebbe's work is ours to bring the Geula.
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Jun 26, 2009 at 09:11 AM Anonymous Says:
“ I would like to add:
I am the one who had no children, and people with six or seven children would ask me to pray for them for more children. Every time, thousands of times, this would happen, it would break my heart as I prayed to Hashem:
"Please Hashem give Ploni bas Plonis another beautiful and healthy child. I am not asking for myself, as I have none, for You so willed it, but I am asking for Ploni bas Plonis" The angels would cry when they heard these prayers. And Hashem would wipe off their tears (K’evayochel) and proclaim: "How could I refuse prayers that are so pure without any self-interest. I must fulfill them immediately”. And He did.
”
That was really moving, thank you.....and oh so true.....
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Jun 28, 2009 at 07:15 AM Chabadnik Says:
in the last paragraph in bold you have a bit of a mistake, its says "kiruv rechokim", the rebbe never used those words because he said that no Jew is far [rochok]. i am just teaching you something new in case you never knew. The Rebbe was anti using words like that.
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Jun 28, 2009 at 10:06 AM Anonymous Says:
“ I would like to add:
I am the one who had no children, and people with six or seven children would ask me to pray for them for more children. Every time, thousands of times, this would happen, it would break my heart as I prayed to Hashem:
"Please Hashem give Ploni bas Plonis another beautiful and healthy child. I am not asking for myself, as I have none, for You so willed it, but I am asking for Ploni bas Plonis" The angels would cry when they heard these prayers. And Hashem would wipe off their tears (K’evayochel) and proclaim: "How could I refuse prayers that are so pure without any self-interest. I must fulfill them immediately”. And He did.
”
#65 this truly is amazing...u r so right.
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Jun 29, 2009 at 06:45 AM me Says:
Although "I" is one of the most common words in the English language, I don't believe I ever heard the Rebbe use the word "I" in a public address. I is not the Lubavitcher rebbe.