B”H Originally published inThe Times of Israel “It is known that all events that transpire in the world are by Divine Providence, and they contain a lesson and instruction in the service of man to his Creator…” – The Lubavitcher Rebbe, January 31, 1992 As many know, the miraculous victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential election contained a mysteriously spiritual element. His daughter and son-in-law visited the Ohel at Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, New York, presumed to be the resting place of the Rebbe. (I say presumed because many believe that the Rebbe is alive.) The miracles wrought by visits to the Ohel are legendary. Requests scribbled on a piece of paper regarding marria
Originally published by The Times of Israel The story you are about to hear is just the barest outline. It’s abåout an Israeli, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and the country of Slovenia, birthplace of Melania Trump. Do you believe there are no coincidences? Read on. For the Slavic countries in Europe, 1991 was the start of a brutal war that saw many thousands murdered, women and girls raped, and people destroyed in such a manner that their remains were hardly identifiable as human. The first shot, so to speak, involved Slovenia, which declared that it was seceding from the Yugolsav Federation. The Yugoslav forces had tanks and bombers and the third largest trained army in Europe. The Yugoslav force
Originally published in The Times of Israel B”H Based on a lecture by Rabbi Reuven Wolf on Parshas Vayishlach 5752 In honor of the 221st anniversary of the Holiday of Holidays, Yud Tes Kislev, the liberation of the Alter Rebbe and the beginning of the Torah of Moshiach Long long LONG ago, way before you and I knew anyone who was ever born, the Almighty was thinking about creating a world. He asked the souls of the righteous, the Jewish people, “What do you think?” He described the plan in detail: how there would be two teams: good and evil, how the earth would be populated by the nations who wouldn’t have any idea about the One G-d, and how the Jewish people, through their many travels and
