For eighteen years, Rabbi Chesed Halberstam was one of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s personal attendants. He also had a unique Shlichus; each day, he had the privilege of driving Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson, a’h, the Lubavitcher Rebbetzin, to a park on Long Island. There she would enjoy some down time, breathing in the fresh air and […]
As the Rabbi of Brisk, and later of the holy city of Yerushalayim, Rav Yehoshua Leib Diskin, known as the Maharil Diskin, zt”l, was known as a fiery gaon in Torah and a man of great chessed. In 1881, after years of fostering needy children and in the face of great suffering and poverty, the […]
Orphaned of both parents at a young age, Reb Yehudah Leib Alter was raised by his grandparents, Rebbetzin Feige and Rebbe Yitzchak Meir, the first Gerrer Rebbe also known as the Chiddushei HaRim. With the untimely passing of Reb Yehuda Leib’s father, attention turned to young Yehudah Leib, in the hopes the child prodigy would […]
In the times of the Alter Rebbe, Reb Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the Baal haTanya, a newly married man was spending his days learning in Kollel when he became drawn to the path of Chassidus. His in-laws were Misnagedim, and opposed his newfound derech. This serious young man was quite bright, had great potential, and […]
“Through Fire and Water: The Life of Reb Noson of Breslov” by Chaim Kramer is the epic story of the life and times of Reb Noson of Breslov, zt’l. Reb Noson had a command of kol haTorah kulah, mastery of the entire revealed Torah and its secrets, and with utmost bitul, sacrifice and dedication, he […]