Stories
The Bottom Line
A Chassidic story demonstrating the entire point of Chabad Chassidism: not to renounce and denigrate the material world, but rather to elevate it by infusing it with an awareness of the divine.
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The Military Method
A soldier enters the fray of battle to the tune of a joyous march, not with tears. It is by the power of his joy that he is victorious even in the most dangerous and challenging endeavors.
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Staying Married
The Baal Shem Tov told a story of a dejected bride. The story is an allegory for the Jewish people’s relationship to G-d.
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Financial Fears
A rabbi rebukes two men, a miser and a charitable man, for dealing with money fearfully.
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Famous Last Words
The chassid Rabbi Moshe Rubin would tell the story of a man who had been told that he would receive all the land he could manage to cover on foot in one day.
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The Candlelit Search
The search took all night, though Rabbi Schneur Zalman and his wife lived in a single room at the time.
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A Talmudic Mind
A poor woman sent to ask if she could use milk for the Four Cups; obviously, then, she could afford neither wine nor meat for her seder table.
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A Business Proposal
I thought that the Rebbe was dispensing business advice, but he must have seen that there is something there, in Siberia, that I must achieve—some part of my mission in life that must be played out in the frozen east.
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