ChabadTalk Podcast

Lurking beneath a scholar’s cloak on our best college campuses, the same raw hatred that Hitler’s professors rationalized persists. This time, sane academics must speak up and take action.

The signature metaphor in Tanya to describe all human activity, popping up in some form or another on almost every page, is clothing. Life, according to Tanya, is less about who you are and more about what you wear.

Instead of sweating over what everyone is thinking of you, spend that energy just being a nice guy.

Abraham constructed a ladder up to G-d. A ladder of insight and enlightenment. Then G-d pulled the ladder out from under him.

Be Abraham. Take ownership. Shatter the narrative. Don’t let hatred define you.

Within each of us is a breath of the divine, a neshamah. Everything else is created by speech. She is created by breath and by thought. Everything else is obsessed with being just what it is. But the neshamah hears the music of creation and yearns for it to be heard.

Just as we invoke the existence of a force of gravity to explain things falling and an electromagnetic force to explain a host of otherwise very mysterious phenomena, so we invoke the existence of a soul-force to explain our inner experience of being alive, conscious, and self-directed.

The Creator of all boundaries is unbounded by any definition. Otherwise, He too would require a creator.

If you're going to bring the ultimate divine wisdom into the world, why are shattered souls the channel for its reception?

Wherever your soul has taken you, there must be something of profound value that you uncovered there.