Hayom Yom - Rabbi Chaim Wolosow

This Hayom Yom contrasts the Baal Shem Tov, who was constantly traveling, with the Maggid of Mezritch, who stayed at home, and tells how in the Maggid's time Chassidus had spread far through the journeys of his disciples, so that many ordinary householders became bound to it and traveled to Mezritch. https://www.torahrecordings.com/hayom-yom/003/003

This Hayom Yom brings the Rebbe Maharash's explanation of why Rabbi Elazar gave a perutah to a poor man before davening: davening must be alive, and giving life to a poor man through tzedakah adds great vitality to the prayer. It adds that the Rebbe Rashab would often seek out a poor man to feed before davening. https://www.torahrecordings.com/hayom-yom/003/002

This Hayom Yom, for Rosh Chodesh Kislev, tells of Reb Yekusiel Liepler, a Chassid of the Alter Rebbe, who at times davened Shacharis, Minchah and Maariv one after the other, with no time in between to make a break. https://www.torahrecordings.com/hayom-yom/003/001

This Hayom Yom speaks of the holy avodah of saying Tehillim together in a congregation: the merit of those who take part and the nachas ruach Above are beyond telling. It blesses them and their families with health and ample parnassah, and through them all Israel with whatever they need, materially and spiritually. https://www.torahrecordings.com/hayom-yom/002/029

This Hayom Yom explains hashgachah pratis: every movement of every creature is individually directed and also bears on the overall purpose of creation. If this is so for the movement of a blade of grass, how much more so for mankind in general and the Jewish people in particular. https://www.torahrecordings.com/hayom-yom/002/028

This Hayom Yom records the saying Reb Aizik of Homil heard in Liozna from elder Chassidim of the Maggid and of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Horodok: love a fellow Jew and Hashem will love you; do him a favor and Hashem will do you one; draw him close and Hashem will draw you close. https://www.torahrecordings.com/hayom-yom/002/027

This Hayom Yom teaches that the true path is to know oneself truly — one's shortcomings and one's good qualities — and, knowing the shortcomings, to correct them through avodah in actual deed rather than be satisfied with sighing over them. https://www.torahrecordings.com/hayom-yom/002/026

This Hayom Yom teaches that Divine Providence brings every person to the place where he lives in order to strengthen Yiddishkeit and spread Torah there — and when one plows and sows, it grows. https://www.torahrecordings.com/hayom-yom/002/025

This Hayom Yom teaches that in material matters one should look at those below him and thank Hashem for His kindness, while in spiritual matters one should look at those above him and pray for a good mind to learn from them and the strength to rise ever higher. https://www.torahrecordings.com/hayom-yom/002/024

This Hayom Yom tells how the Tzemach Tzedek was arrested twenty-two times during the rabbinical conference in Petersburg in 5603 for opposing the government's demand for changes in Jewish education, and gives his answer to the minister: rebelling against the Kingdom of Heaven is graver than rebelling against the government. https://www.torahrecordings.com/hayom-yom/002/023