Nechoma Greisman

Awaiting Mashiach Mashiach is not a theory, or an abstract idea. The Torah describes him as a very real, live person. This is one of the 13 principles of our faith. The Rambam explains that anyone who does not believe in Mashiach , or does not eagerly awa...

The Rebbe very often repeats a statement of the Alter Rebbe that “one must live with the parshah of the week.” Since each parshah is divided into seven sections — the seven aliyos — one for each of seven men who are called up to the Torah on Shabbos , it ...

Chassidus explains that there are two parallel realms, the physical and the spiritual. In other words, whatever objects exist in this world, whether they are human, animal, plant, or inanimate, have a counterpart in the spiritual realm. The same is true o...

Many of the Rebbe’s sichos explaining the nature of the month of Elul center around the explanation of the rashei teivos (initial letters) of the verse in Shir HaShirim, אני לדודי ודודי לי (Ani LeDodi VeDodi li — “I am for my Beloved, and my Beloved is fo...

The verse, “…And go to the place which HaShem your G-d will choose… to make His Name rest there” (Devarim 26:2) refers to the mitzvah of bikkurim — to offer the first fruits of your crops in “the place that HaShem will choose,” that is, the Beis HaMikdash...

In this parshah , the Torah goes through the different animals, fish and birds, and gives us signs to tell us which of the many species of creatures we may and may not eat. As far as four-legged animals are concerned, the Torah gives a very simple sign: T...

The Rebbe points out on many occasions that the week when the portion of Re’eh is read always falls on the Shabbos prior to Elul, i.e., Shabbos Mevarchim Elul, when we bless the coming month, or within the first few days of Elul. The Zohar explains that n...

This week’s parshah , Eikev , discusses, among many other things, the concept of the reward promised to a person if he is careful with the observance of all mitzvos , even those that people tend to trample on. According to Targum Onkelos — the Aramaic tra...

One of the main subjects of Parshas Eikev is the man — the manna that the Jewish people ate during their travels through the desert. Now as everyone knows, the manna was very, very different from any other food that Israelites had ever had before. The man...

The Fifteenth of Av marks a turning point — it is the summer equinox. This means that until this day, the days are longer than the nights. On the Fifteenth of Av, the day and night are equal, and from this point on, the days become shorter and the nights ...