I originally thought to suggest we take on something more “current” perhaps something for the 3-weeks. But I reconsidered and decided to share with you a part of a letter I wrote to a friend in Chinuch, who asked for my thoughts on dealing with the current situation. I note that this is only a small part of a much…

Let’s say it the way it is. The Rebbe gave us explicit instructions on how to live our lives after Gimmel Tamuz. In hindsight, in the years before Gimmel Tamuz, the Rebbe was preparing the world for life after. *** Motzoei Shabbos, Parshas Teruma, Beis Adar 5748 It is a few days after Shiva for the Rebbetzin. Maariv and Havdola…

CoronaVirus; The world is slowly coming to a halt. The implications are enormous, the decisions astonishing, our lives changing dramatically. And yet, relative to what is going on in ‘the world’, for a Bochur the implications are far smaller. Think about what parents are going through. The average family has very little savings – they don’t earn enough to put…