Ask a Lubavitcher Anything

[ExGingi]

there’s more than one way to frame things.

As long as we're framing a farm not farming a frame.

[AsherO]

As long as we're framing a farm not farming a frame.

This pun is golden considering we’re talking about KH.

[ExGingi]

This pun is golden considering we’re talking about KH.

Kindly elaborate on the KH reference.

[ExGingi]

This pun is golden considering we’re talking about KH.

Does the F in DDF stand for Farm or Frame?

[AsherO]

Kindly elaborate on the KH reference.

Kosher Horizon’s, see @Something Fishy’s signature. FWIU his business started off as Kosher photography-tourism

[AsherO]

Does the F in DDF stand for Farm or Frame?

Everyone knows the F word is very versatile. Personally it’s starting to feel like it stands for Friday...

[Dan]

This מימרא is an unimaginable high דרגא said by one of our holiest sages 200+ years ago. I don't see how this can even be incorporated to the masses. Throwing this around so easily as if this would be a level within our reach today always baffled me. When you think honestly deeply into that statement.

Throwing around?
We spend years learning chassidus and farbrenging to work on this!

But it's critical to know what's the goal you're trying to attain and why are we here on this planet.

וְזֶה כָּל הָאָדָם וְתַכְלִית בְּרִיאָתוֹ וּבְרִיאַת כָּל הָעוֹלָמוֹת, עֶלְיוֹנִים וְתַחְתּוֹנִים, לִהְיוֹת לוֹ יִתְבָּרֵךְ דִּירָה בְּתַחְתּוֹנִים.

How can you go somewhere without a road map? Is the whole point olam haba or is it actually olam hazeh?

Knowing the goal is one thing. Reaching that goal is another story. In other circles this would be referenced when speaking of the Gadlus of the Baal H'Tanya, that he was on that Darga to actually reach and say that מימרא.

Came across this on Shabbos from the Rebbe which addressed this very point!
https://w3.chabad.org/media/pdf/910/EdBR9106946.pdf

[Dan]

Came across this on Shabbos from the Rebbe which addressed this very point!

Powerful maimor where the Rebbe made his followers into leaders.
Translated version:
https://www.sie.org/templates/sie/article_cdo/aid/3798184/jewish/VeAtah-Tetzaveh-5741.htm

[Jellybelly]

Powerful maimor where the Rebbe made his followers into leaders.

Is that why there is no rebbe now?

[Yehuda57]

Is that why there is no rebbe now?

Firstly, there is a Rebbe now - the Rebbe.

Rabbi Taub speaks about this here:
https://www.soulwords.org/video/are-you-the-kohen-gadol/
(or listen in your preferred podcast app)

[aygart]

https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/after-the-death-of-chabads-messiah/

This is likely the Gell-Mann Amnesia talking - but I found this interesting.

On the one hand, the Rebbe never emphatically stated, “I am the Messiah.” Still, the many hints he gave his followers over the years seem to have indicated that he believed in his own messianic identity. While, for academics, the question of the Rebbe’s messiahship may be interesting material for papers and conferences, for the Chabad movement, the Rebbe’s messianic identity is of existential importance. This was starkly evident when I examined the tombstone inscriptions of a number of recently deceased messianic Chabad members. I noticed that their families engraved the message that the deceased “faithfully believed in the Rebbe’s messiahship.”

How common is this?

[ushdadude]

why are the tefilin so big? even on little boys

[YitzyS]

why are the tefilin so big? even on little boys

Isn't there a Chitas in there?

[ushdadude]

He and YY (though we called him Jakey at the time) were our chassidus magidei shiurim in ULY.
Not a bad lineup, but I still preferred Shaps in YOEC. Can still hear him deep diving into Ranat and Bayom Ashtei Asar.

Rabbi Zakutinsky on torahanytime discusses chabad chasidus often but not exclusively.

[aygart]

why are the tefilin so big? even on little boys

I am not a lubavitcher, but my understanding is that it is to be 3 etzbaos.

[ushdadude]

I am not a lubavitcher, but my understanding is that it is to be 3 etzbaos.

whose fingers?

[Yehuda57]

How common is this?

I can't think of a single one, though admittedly I'm no expert on matzeivos. I would also imagine that matzeivos in Eretz Yisroel would be different to ones in the USA, maybe that's what it is talking about? I'd also be interested to see the original Hebrew it is translating, it could be a misunderstanding/mistranslation.

[jj1000]

I can't think of a single one, though admittedly I'm no expert on matzeivos. I would also imagine that matzeivos in Eretz Yisroel would be different to ones in the USA, maybe that's what it is talking about? I'd also be interested to see the original Hebrew it is translating, it could be a misunderstanding/mistranslation.

Same, never even heard of it before.

[aygart]

I can't think of a single one, though admittedly I'm no expert on matzeivos. I would also imagine that matzeivos in Eretz Yisroel would be different to ones in the USA, maybe that's what it is talking about? I'd also be interested to see the original Hebrew it is translating, it could be a misunderstanding/mistranslation.

Thanks. Had a feeling that it was an extreme case.

[Euclid]

What other parts of that article are gross overstatements?