Rebbe Letters

Letter 19- How to Receive the Rebbe's Blessing

The Rebbe explains what it requires for the blessings of a Rebbe to be effective. Just as rain only makes things grow after plowing and planting, so must the recipient of

Letter 18- Suggested Program for a Women's Gathering

The Rebbe outlines the program for a women's gathering to honor 10 Shvat, the yahrzeit of the Previous Rebbe.

Letter 17- Treat Your Spiritual Activities Like a Business

The Rebbe responds to someone who wants to know how to get started carrying out Chabad outreach activities.

Letter 16- Healthy in Soul & Body

The Rebbe writes to a father about the efficacy of removing his son from his present school for health reasons.

Letter 15- Encouragement for a Teacher of Young Women

The Rebbe addresses a woman's doubts about her ability to teach her young students.

Letter 14- Memories that Lead to Action

The Rebbe writes to his relative Mrs. Devorah Leah Horenstein that nostalgia and memories must bring to practical action.

Letter 13- To Someone Who Says They Have No "Mazal"

In the second letter of a double class (see previous episode), the Rebbe disagrees with a mother who claims to have no "mazal" in life at all. The Rebbe's proofs are take

Letters 12- Positive Epigenetics

The Rebbe writes to a group of young women and protests the self-deprecating manner in which they describe themselves.

Letter 11- Education Outside of the Classroom

The Rebbe writes to a mashgiach in the Toras Emes yeshiva in Jerusalem about the importance of educating students beyond their academic studies.

Letter 10- Encouraging Others to Write to the Rebbe

The Rebbe asks someone who deals with Israeli soldiers if he can encourage them to correspond with him.

Letter 9- Should Unpaid Teachers Strike?

The Rebbe writes to a teachers' union warning them about the irrevocable harm that can be caused by a teachers' strike.

Letter 8- Youth Should Not Think About Earning a Living

The Rebbe expresses pain about young people who are overly fixated on how they will make a living in the future.

Letter 7- Stay Above Politics

The role of a Jewish school was once merely to ensure that a child become an educated Jew. Today, however, the school's purpose is far more basic than that, i.e. to see t

Letter 6- Finding Your Special Mitzvah

Each one of us has a special mitzvah in which we are meant to shine more than others. One must be extra vigilant about this particular mitzvah and realize that the evil i

Letter 5- Advice for a Rabbi

The Rebbe gives advice to Rabbi Herschel Shusterman a"h of Chicago about dealing with both youth and adults.

Letter 4- Impress the Neighbors or Please the Rebbe?

The Rebbe writes to a husband who blames his lack of spiritual growth on his wife. The Rebbe does not accept this excuse and implores him to resolve his own lack of clari

Letter 3- Faith, Fertility, and When to Listen to Doctors

In response to a woman who feared she was infertile, the Rebbe tells her to hold strong in her trust in Hashem and then calls upon her to actualize her potential to influ

Letter 2- How to Be a Spiritual Trendsetter

This letter was written by the Rebbe to a young bride encouraging her to be an "early adopter" of certain chasidic customs including covering her hair with a "sheitel."

Letter 1- Should a Farbrebgen Keep You Away from Home?

The inaugural class of a series on studying the published letters of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Rabbi Taub provides a brief background about the letters printed in Igros Kode

It's Kind of Personal

Over the years, the Rebbe answered tens of thousands of letters, a portion of which are printed in the series known as Igros Kodesh. In these letters, we find a treasure