TALES FOR THE SHABBOS TABLE

This week's section begins with G-d appearing (YaYera) to Abraham after he had circumcised himself.

When the fifth Rebbe of Lubavitch, Rabbi Shalom Dov-Ber was some four years he old came home crying and asked his grandfather (who was the Lubavitch Rebbe at that time). "Why did G-d appear to Abraham and He doesn't appear to me?"

And his grandfather answered "When a person, a Tzadik, serves G-d, non-stop his entire life and then at the age of ninety nine is willing to start from the beginning and circumcise himself, then G-d will appear to him."

At first glance this makes no sense. G-d has no form or body. He is far 'above' being spiritual or physical in any sense. In fact He creates the spiritual and physical! So how can He 'Appear'?

Not only that but G-d did it again when He gave the Torah, later in the Holy Temple and will do it in an even bigger way through Moshiach. What does it mean?

To understand this here are two stories.

Rabbi Yaakov Biederman is a Chabad representative in Austria. Presently he is the director of a large Jewish educational complex that he miraculously built from nothing.

This is how it happened.

Shortly after the terrible nuclear catastrophe in Chernobyl in 1988 Rabbi Biederman received an urgent telephone call from New York.

One of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's secretaries, Rabbi Leibel Groner, was on the other end of the line with a desperate request. The meltdown of the atomic plant there produced more than one hundred times deadly radioactive fallout as the bomb in Hiroshima and everyone in the area, especially the children, were in grave danger. (Radioactivity is especially dangerous to growing children)

"Hello, Rabbi Biederman. This is Rabbi Groner. The Rebbe told me to call you and tell you that you must urgently do all you can to get as many Jewish children out of the Chernobyl area as possible and bring them to Israel. The Rebbe said that it is a matter of life and death and that every minute lives are being lost! Do all you can to save them!!"

Rabbi Beiderman was stunned. Why did the Rebbe call him? How could he possibly save myriads of children? He was an ordinary 'Shaliach' (emissary) trying to spread as much Judaism as possible in the apathetic and often hostile environment of Austria. But even more; unlike many of the other emissaries, he had absolutely no connection with either Russia or Israel! What could he possibly do? He had no idea even where to start.

That evening, together with his wife, he had to attend an important wedding in Vienna. He was so disturbed by the telephone call that he was in no mood for weddings but he had to go.

A few hours later at the wedding he sat at his table lost in thought oblivious to the music and joyous chatter around him. "What is wrong, Rabbi, are you feeling all right?" the Jew sitting next to him asked. The fellow was a fairly wealthy businessman who had helped him with donations in the past.

Suddenly Rabbi Biederman got a crazy idea.

"Tell me Mr. R.. if I told you that there was a death-train headed for Auschwitz loaded with Jewish children and you could save them. what would you do?"

He looked at the Rabbi to see if he was serious and immediately answered "What would I do?! Why, I would give all I had to save them!! What's the question!!"

"Well," replied the Rabbi "That is exactly what is happening this very minute! And you can help!"

That very evening the businessman pledged one million dollars (!) to begin the rescue of the Chernobyl children.

That night Rabbi Biederman got on the phone to Israel and it wasn't long until he found someone willing to take the project; Rabbi Yosef Ahronov of the Chabad Youth Movement.

And to this day almost ten thousand children have been airlifted to life and to safety in Israel.

But that is only the first half of the story.

The accepted custom is that if one Chabad emissary secures a donation for another a portion of that donation must be returned to the first emissary for use in his projects. The accepted amount is thirty percent.

And so Rabbi Ahronov called Rabbi Biederman and asked him how much should he return. Certainly three hundred thousand dollars would help a lot of Jews in Austria! Three hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money!

But Rabbi Biederman did not hesitate.

"I don't want money. I want a blessing from the Rebbe! That's right!" He continued to Rabbi Ahronov, "I want you to ask the Rebbe for a blessing for me for my Chabad House. That will be my payment. Tell the Rebbe that instead of a percentage I want a blessing for miraculous success above all natural boundaries."

Rabbi Ahronov called the secretariat of the Rebbe, explained Rabbi Biederman's unusual request and hours later received an answer from the Rebbe with the blessing.

>From that day on it seemed as though a new world opened up for Rabbi Biederman; as though all the restrictions had been lifted. He began a massive project . a Jewish college in Vienna. Jewish students were assimilating, there was no place they could get a Jewish environment no less Jewish education. And Rabbi Biederman decided he would save them.

Before the Rebbe's blessing it was impossible, unthinkable! But now it was different. As soon as he made the idea public, funds and support came from all sides. People he never dreamed would help, even some who had been hostile, suddenly came to his assistance.

And that is how Rabbi Biederman built his massive multi-million dollar Jewish University complex in the heart of Vienna.

That is what happened to Abraham. He circumcised himself, all obsticals fell away and suddenly a new world opened before him. Namely He felt his own Jewish soul; and the Jewish soul is the essence of G-d. (see Tanya chapt 2; Jews are the 'sons' of G-d)

And that is what happened when the Jews left Egypt (Rashi Ex. 25:2) again at Matan Torah (Targum Unklos Ex. 19:20) and again in the Holy Temple (Lev. 16:2) all concealment was removed and HaShem appeared.

Is this possible for us today? Definitely! That is why the Rebbe wept to his grandfather. And this is why every Jew must long for Moshiach. And that was really what the Rebbe, as a boy, was crying about.

The Moshiach will teach all the Jews how to 'circumcise' their hearts until 'All flesh will see' (Isiah 40:5) and the world will be filled with the knowledge of G-d.

That is the secret behind all the miracles Moses and all the great Tzadikim after him did; they were to remove the 'foreskin' i.e. the difficulties and obstacles to 'seeing' G-d (Just as the Rebbe wondrously helped in Chernobyl and again in Vienna).

But in the end it all depends on US to open our eyes.

Like the story told about the holy Kotzker Rebbe, Menachem Mendel of Kotzk: Once an assimilated 'intellectual' Jew threw him a sarcastic challenge; "Nu, Rabbi. I'll give you a ruble if you can show me where G-d is!" To which the Rebbe calmly replied, "And I'll give you ten if you can show me where He isn't!"

But when another troublemaker asked the same question, "Nu, Rabbi no joking around, where is G-d?" he got a different response; "G-d is wherever you let Him in!"

And both answers are true. G-d is everywhere and everything. we just have to remove a bit of the 'foreskin' i.e. the false egotism on our hearts. Or in the language of the Rebbe; 'Open our eyes' and see that Moshiach is here and (as we say in Alenu) "To speedily SEE G-d's glorious power"

Moshiach NOW!!

Rabbi Tuvia Bolton
Yeshiva Ohr Tmimim
Kfar Chabad, Israel
www.ohrtmimim.org/torah

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TALES FOR THE SHABBOS TABLE

This week we read of how Abraham, the father of Judaism, argued with G-d in a futile attempt to save the evil Sodom and Amora from heavenly retribution.

Does this make sense?

G-d had a good reason for destroying these cities; they were full of sadistic criminals. Why did Abraham want otherwise?

Even more; how can a human being, a creation (even a unique one like Abraham) argue with the Creator?

What is the Torah trying to teach us here?

We can ask a similar question on the 'HafTorah' (the portion, usually from the prophets, read after the Torah reading on Shabbat).

This week's HafTorah tells the story of how the prophet Elisha saved a lady debtor from destitution by advising her to borrow hundreds of large empty vessels from her neighbors and then fill them miraculously from a small vial of oil (her last possession).

Why didn't Elisha just give her money, or produce gold miraculously? Why did he make the poor woman go through such trouble?

To understand this here is a story.

Chassidim are Jews that are happy to serve their creator. In the book "The Tanya" it is explained that Abraham, the first Jew, although it went against every fiber of his being, was actually 'happy' to sacrifice his son Yitzchak and this 'joy' is what made him the father of Judaism.

The scene; some twenty years ago in the central synagogue of the Chabad Chassidim in Brooklyn. Hundreds of Chassidim of all ages gathered (as they do every Shabbat now-a-days as well) to make a 'farbringin'; a gathering replete with singing, dancing, words of Torah, Chassidic stories and, of course, 'LeChiams' (usually vodka).

The spirits were high when a young man, a Chassid in his early twenties stood up, cleared his throat and announced. "I have a miracle story about the Rebbe!"

He was referring to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Shneerson, and although there are thousands of such stories everyone was very eager to hear another.

"The story begins in Israel" He said. "A ten year old boy, we'll call him Yoni, from a wealthy family suddenly began suffering from severe headaches. He was taken for an examination and was diagnosed as having a malignant tumor. Of course the family was turned upside down on the spot and they began running to doctors.

"Money was no problem, but it seems all the money in the world couldn't help. After several months of painful and debilitating X-rays and chemicals with no positive results the doctors finally advised them to stop the treatments and just let the boy live out his life in peace.

"The doctor even advised them to spend the next few precious months traveling the world together. Yoni's father and mother cancelled all their business and social plans and in no time their bags were packed and they were all on their way to Europe. They saw Paris, London, and Rome, traveled in the Alps and across Spain and flew to New York with the rest of the U.S.A before them on the itinerary.

"On the second day of their stay in Manhattan they were walking down Fifth Avenue when suddenly through the noise and traffic something caught the boy's attention. A camper-truck decorated with all sorts of colorful pictures and loudspeakers blaring happy clarinet music from its roof was parked at the side of the street with several bearded young Chassidim standing by its open door talking to people on the street. Yoni told his father he wanted to see.

"As they were nearing one of the Chassidim looked at Yoni's father and called out "Hello my friend! Are you Jewish?"

"The blood rose to his head.' Jewish?!' He answered scoffingly. Go to Israel and join the ARMY!! That's Jewish!! Let's go Yoni! Let's see something else." Yoni's father, like so many Israelis, was allergic to religious Jews. He took his son's hand and began to walk away. But the boy's curiosity had been aroused.

"But daddy, aren't we Jewish? What's wrong with being Jewish? Who are these people?'

"When the Chassid understood they were Israelis he exclaimed, also in Hebrew.

"'Ahhh! Boruch HaShem! Jews from the Holy Land! Welcome to America!!' He said, grabbing Yoni's dad's hand and shaking it vigorously.

"'Nu! What do you want?' Yoni's father asked angrily . He was irritated but he didn't want Yoni to see it.

"'I want you to put on Tefillin!' said the Chassid with a warm smile. 'It won't hurt, you'll enjoy it, Jews have been doing it for over three thousand years, it doesn't cost money, it only takes two minutes, it's the best buy in Manhattan and your son wants you to do it! Right Yoni?' (He had heard the boy's father call him by his name).

The boy looked up at his father with big goggly eyes and shook his head 'yes' and of course the poor man had no choice but to comply.

It wasn't long before they were talking and the conversation got around to Yoni's condition.

"Wow! I'm sorry to hear he isn't feeling well.' said the young man. But I don't think you should give up so easily. G-d forbid!! First get to see the Lubavitcher Rebbe. He has saved people in worse shape. Give it a try!! Here! Here is the telephone number and the address. Call up and ask for one of the Rebbe's secretaries. You know what? Here is my phone number. Call me and I'll go with you to the secretaries. I guarantee it will work and well. you have nothing to loose.

"That evening the boy's parents talked it over and decided to give it a try. The next morning they called the young man, went to the Rebbe's headquarters in Crown Hights and got an appointment to see the Rebbe that evening.

"That night at twelve o'clock they were seated before the Rebbe's desk with Yoni's X-ray's and medical papers spread out before them.

"The Rebbe examined some of the documents looked up at Yoni's father and said.

"'I don't see anything so serious. It's just a problem of diet. If he begins to eat only kosher food he will be perfectly healthy.'

"Yoni's father looked at the Rebbe in wide-eyed disbelief. He knew that religious Jews are superstitious and ignorant, but this was really going overboard!! This so-called great Rabbi is not just contradicting the greatest professors in the world, he's contradicting common sense!!

"He stood up, coldly shook the Rebbe's hand, took the boy by the hand, shot a glance at his wife and they left the room.

"He was blazing mad!!! 'Nothing serious!! Just a matter of diet!' he said over and over as they left the building. 'Ha! I'd like to go back to that young fool that we met on the street and bust him one in the face!!

"But his wife didn't exactly agree. "Maybe there is something to what he says.' She said as they returned to their hotel room. 'After all, we really do have nothing to loose. And he didn't ask for money. Maybe we should give it a try.'

"The next day she bought kosher food from a local market and wouldn't let her husband take them to a non-kosher restaurant. She kept it up for a few days until one day Yoni said he felt strange.

"His father made an appointment with the professor of the nearest hospital rushed his son there and in less than an hour the professor was looking at the X-rays.

"'A definite improvement!' he murmured, obviously impressed. 'What type of a treatment is he taking? Who is treating him? I have to admit I've never seen anything quite like it!'

"Yoni's father burst out into tears and his mother grabbed her son and began kissing him.

"'It was the Rabbi!! I knew he was right!!' she said and began weeping as well.

"When they returned several months later to Israel Yoni was completely cured of his disease and his father and mother were cured of being non-observant Jews.

Everyone thought that the young man finished his story. But he hadn't.

"Just one more thing" he concluded. "I am Yoni! I'm the boy that was saved by the Rebbe's blessing'. He announced with a beaming smile.

This answers our questions.

The reason that Abraham prayed for the cities and Elisha told the woman to borrow vessels and fill them is because the purpose of creation is to reveal G-d's unity in this world through hard work. G-d WANTS us to change the world. In fact it is one of the Commandments of the Torah to pray to G-d to change His will.

Therefore Abraham, when he prayed for the evil populace of Sodom and Amora argued that perhaps there are righteous people in each of the cities; perhaps there are a sufficient number of righteous people to convince them to change their ways and to begin to serve G-d.

But the lesson from Elisha is even deeper.

Not only did he insist that the woman take part in as much of the miracle as possible. But he also taught her how to serve G-d:

Take EMPTY vessels and fill them with your last vial of oil.

The emptiness is humility; the knowledge that all we have, all our successes and qualities are no more than gifts from the Creator.

And the oil is the essence of the Jewish soul; the certainty that Torah, G-d and the Jewish people are one. (Like the one untouched vial of oil that made the miracle of Chanuka).

This is the goal of Moshiach. To heal the entire world by convincing them to do what G-d wants as the Rebbe did with Yoni and his parents.

That is the message of this week's section; 'VaYeira HaShem' 'G-d appeared'. Soon the Moshiach will bring about what we pray for thrice daily in Alenu 'To SEE your glorious power; that G-d will again appear as He did to Abraham but this time to the entire world.

Moshiach NOW!

Rabbi Tuvia Bolton
Yeshiva Ohr Tmimim
Kfar Chabad Israel

Torah Online Site: http://www.ohrtmimim.org/torah

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TALES FOR THE SHABBOS TABLE

This week's torah portion tells the strange and sordid story of Lot and his two daughters, how they escaped their wicked hometown Sodom and finally begot two illegitimate sons; Amon and Moav.

The Torah is not a history book. The word Torah means "teaching", and every word and idea has a purpose. What then, is the purpose of this story? What is it coming to tell us? And what connection does it have to this week's section?

To understand this, here is a story.

About two hundred years ago, there lived a great tzadik called Rab Mair Permishlianer. His holiness and Torah knowledge were renowned, but because he was a "Chassid" (follower) of the Baal Shem Tov, he was ridiculed by The Misnagdim (Jews who opposed the Chassidim).

Rab Mair lived on the top of a very high and dangerously steep hill. Early every morning he would descend, stop half way down to immerse himself in a spring of living water that flowed there (the Chassidim did this claiming it increased their purity) and then descend the rest of the way to the town.

The remarkable thing was that he would do this same thing every day, even in the winter when snow and ice made his descent seemingly impossible.

At the foot of this hill was a Yeshiva (Talmudic academy) of the "opposers" whose pupils viewed Rab Mair's daily ritual with scorn.

Their first objection was, who told the old fellow to live on the top of a mountain? Secondly, why did he have to dunk himself in a pool every morning like a madman? And as far as the descent through the snow, they were certain that it was some sort of a trick.

Gradually there formed a group of them that were determined to expose him. They got a hold of a pair of binoculars, watched carefully where he put each foot, and after a few weeks when they were sure they "had it" they decided it was time to do it themselves.

But despite their preparations and supple strong bodies, they slipped, and seconds later found themselves bruised and broken, moaning and groaning at the bottom of the hill.

Several months later, after they had sufficiently recovered, they decided to go up the mountain to the Tzadik and ask him how he did it.

Rab Mair was pained to see how they had hurt themselves for nothing, and said, "I'm sorry that you got injured, and even more so that you did it because of me. Why, if you had asked I would have told you my secret. It's simple!"

"Simple?" they exclaimed. "It doesn’t look so simple to us, what is it?"

Rav Mair became serious, cleared his throat, looked at them deeply and said, "The secret is that when you are tied above spiritually, you don't fall below physically." What he meant is; "above", namely in the spiritual worlds, everything is pure and harmonious. But down here "below" the world can be deceiving and the same exact harmonies can be dross and evil.

For instance, Lot and his daughters; because they were not "tied above" they fell.

But the Zohar seems to take a different view.

In the Zohar (1:109) it says that the elder daughter lay with her father because she sensed that this strange relationship would eventually result in Moshiach (hence the dot written over the work "uvKuma" in the Torah 19:33). Her illicit son, Moav would be the progenitor of Ruth from whom would issue Dovid, and generations later the long-awaited Messiah, may he speedily arrive.

Furthermore, both Amon and Moav have another connection to the era of redemption:

Rashi pointed out in last week's portion (15:19) that when G-d promised Avraham that his seed would inherit ten nations, He intended that seven of them would be conquered by Yehoshua when the Jews entered the land of Cannan for the first time. But the last three; Edom, AMON and MOAV would be conquered only
thousands of years later - by the Moshiach.

So we see that although Lot fell below, it wasn't final. Something like how the young mens' broken bones in our story were able to heal after their fall.

But the commentary M'or Vshemesh on the Torah (Written by a Chassid and great Tzaddik Rabbi Kalonimus Kalman of Krakow) gives even a deeper explanation: The forbidden unity of Lot with his daughters is really simulated by us (albeit in a holy way) every time we pray with emotion and longing, especially in the prayers of Shabbos. Then the lowest aspect of G-d, called in Kaballa (mystical) books, "daughter" (Malchus) is united with the highest called "Father" (Chochma).

Something like how the boys ascended the mountain to the Tzadik after their bones healed.

But in a book called "Derech Mitzvosecha" written by the third Lubavitcher Rebbe ("The Tzemach Tzedek") he explains yet a deeper level.

In the upper worlds, he explains, there are certain unifications and harmonies between different aspects of G-d (The Kabalists call them the "ten Spherot") which are too holy and pure for this world as the world is now.

In this world these unities manifest themselves as forbidden unions and are called "GILUI Araiyous" i.e. "REVEALING nakedness" because they cannot be REVEALED here (except according to the limitations of the Torah and after much soul preparation) but must be hidden in the spiritual realms.

But there are two outstanding exceptions.

The first was when G-d gave the Torah. He then united His highest trait, Wisdom, with His lowest, speech, (Chochma in Malchus) and revealed it in this world.

The second will be when Moshiach arrives. Then G-d's Wisdom (Chachma) will again fill the world (Malchut) (See Rambam, Melachim 12:5).

But the difference is that then, unlike at the giving of the Torah, the world will become permanently refined and elevated. Only then will Lot's (and everyone elses') deeds be fully corrected and these upper unities
can be fully revealed.

That is why the Baal Shem Tov and all his pupils through the generations reminded us in all their works that it is our job to not just remain at the bottom of the hill and improve ourselves, but to improve the entire world around us as well.

In other words, it is up to us to prepare the world for Moshiach. And the only way to do it is with joy.

That is why the story of Lot appears in this week's portin. Here is related the miraculous birth of Yitzchak whose name implies joy and hints at the coming redemption (Psalms 126:2).

And the word VaYaira itself means Revelation. Namely the Revelation of G-d and all the upper unities in this physical world as it will be only in the days of....

Moshiach NOW!!

Rabbi Tuvia Bolton
Yeshiva Ohr Tmimim
Kfar Chabad Israel

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TALES FOR THE SHABBOS TABLE

This week’s Torah section has three examples of Avraham’s devotion to the
commandment of having guests "Hachnasat Orchim".
The section opens with Avraham, (after sitting for hours in the sun looking
for guests, despite the pain of his recent circumcision) hosting three
angels in the form of men.

Next comes the frightening story of Lot risking his life in the name of
hospitality in Sodom. (A trait obviously learned from his uncle Avraham,
being that Lot in his own right was far from righteous, see Rashi 1311)

And finally the Torah tells us, (just before the story of the "Akeida"),
that Avraham made an ‘Eshel’- a free restaurant in the desert, in order to
advertise monotheism.

Here is another example.

The editor of Kfar Chabad Magazine, Rabbi Ahron Dov Haperin writes that
once when travelling he ate a Shabbos meal in a Chabad House in California.

There were many guests at the table and the conversation was lively, when
suddenly a strangely silent young man with very long hair and a wild look
in his eyes entered, took a seat at the table and just stared blankly at
his plate refusing to respond or react to anything around him.

He sat that way for a good half-hour, and just when everyone forgot about
him, he suddenly looked up at the large picture of the Rebbe that was
hanging on the wall, lunged from his seat, pulled it down, threw it to the
ground and began screaming "Leave me alone!

The other guests subdued him and finally, when he had calmed down and drank
some water, he began to talk.

He was the oldest child in a rich Jewish family from San Francisco. After
graduating High School he enrolled in Berkley University and quickly became
totally involved in the ‘hippy’ scene’.Eventually, when the drugs and
partying lost their charm, he made his way to India and ‘found himself’ (or
rather ‘lost himself’) in one of the many spiritual cults there.

He had cut off all contact with this mundane, illusionary world i.e. ‘his
old self’, and it goes without saying from his parents, and had decided to
devote his life to meditation and spiritual achievement.

Then, suddenly one late afternoon, after almost two years of complete
estrangement he was overpowered with a sudden tremendous longing to see his
parents. His heart ached for home. He tried to meditate, to think of
something else but to no avail. The longing plagued him constantly for days
until, weeping like a madman, he left his guru travelled to the nearest
town, called his amazed parents and asked them to send him a plane ticket
as fast as possible.

When he arrived home (he still didn’t understand why) his parents were, of
course, overjoyed to see him despite his weird zombie-like appearance and
they began to talk.

As he told the story of his sudden nostalgia, his father suddenly fell
silent and said "Tell me, exactly when did this happen, what day and at
what time? The reason I’m asking," the father continued, "is because a
strange thing happened to me last week. I went with a group of businessmen
on a trip organized by Chabad to see the Lubavitch Rebbe.

Some people asked the Rebbe for advice or for more blessings but I just
took the dollar, said thank you, and continued walking.

But then the Rebbe called me back. His secretary pulled me back, and the
Rebbe gave me another dollar and then said; 'This is for your oldest son'.
I thought to myself 'That was a bizarre thing for him to say, especially
because I hadn't seen you in so long, and how did he know that I even had a
son?'

And now, just a few days later, here you are!! It's really a miracle!!"

When they calculated the time of the boy’s longing they realized that it began
just minutes after his father received that dollar.

And that is what brought about his outburst in the Chabad House. It seems
that try as could he couldn’t manage to break away from home and return to
his beloved guru, his heart just wouldn’t allow him.

"So here is the dollar back!!" He screamed at the Shaliach as he pulled the
dollar his father received from the Rebbe out of his pocket, "Take it back
and tell him to leave me alone!!!"

The story is not over.

Years later Rabbi Halperin met with a Kenesset member called Professor
Avner Shaki, who told him a similar story that had occurred to him a week
or so ago.

It seems that he was in Chabad House somewhere in California for Shabbat,
and in the middle of the meal three hippies entered, sat down uninvited,
began eating with their hands, refused to make blessings and were generally
obnoxious.

He turned to the Shaliach to ask him to do something but the Shaliach
comforted him and said that he shouldn’t worry. "In fact" the Shaliach
added, "a few years ago I was much worse, and if you don’t believe me, ask
the editor of the Kfar Chabad Magazine."
The young man that the Rebbe saved from India years ago had himself chosen
the way of Avraham Avinu.

What is so important about taking in guests?

The answer is that having guests is very similar to, and is very important
in bringing the arrival of the Moshiach.

Taking in guests demands a certain type of openness on the part of the host
to an unexpected life and light that the new guest brings with him.

Similarly, the Moshiach will bring a new revelation, something completely
unexpected, into the life of each and every one of us, and the commandment
that best simulates this is Hachassat Orchim.

It is even accepted by Chassidim that the soul of the Baal Shem Tov came
into the world because of the self-sacrifice of his father in this Mitzva.

That is the idea behind the CHABAD HOUSES.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe insisted that there be CHABAD HOUSES in every major city in the world because taking in guests is the best preparation for, and
instigator of the New Era.

May we all merit to hosting the most wonderful guest of them all, the
Moshiach, who will bring all of us to realize that we are sons of Avraham,
Yizchak and Yaakov, and that all of us are really only guests of HaShem.

Just as a host provides all the needs of his guest so also HaShem should
provide us with ours.

And we NEED Moshiach NOW!

Rabbi Tuvia Bolton
Yeshiva Ohr Tmimim

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