Video Audio Text Just as the Alter Rebbe opened the first Epistle in this series1 with a blessing — occasioned by the good news that most of the chassidic congregations had completed their annual study of the Talmud — so, too, this final Epistle begins with a blessing. Evidently, this blessing too was occasioned by […]

Video Audio Text אבל: צדק לפניו יהלך, הוא לשון זכר However, the verse,22 “Tzedek shall go before him,” is in the masculine gender, both the noun (tzedek) and its matching verb (yehaleich). היא מדת החסד המתעוררת בלב האדם מעצמו This refers to the attribute of kindness that is aroused in a man’s heart of his […]