Many times bochurim feel that appointing an “Asei lecha rav” is just to be mekushar, and the extent of the connection comes out to be just about that, completely forgetting “the spirit of the law” – that this person is supposed to bring about a significant improvement in one’s spiritual life • By Rabbi Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

Many know the tale in the Midrash of Moshiach being born the very moment the Beis HaMikdash went up in flames. But what does it mean? Are we to take this literally? Could a baby or toddler have redeemed Am Yisrael? And now, nearly 2,000 years later, are we expecting the same child who disappeared in the wind to return? • By Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

If a tzaddik is present more when he’s not constrained by the limits of the body, isn’t it a shame to keep him in the world for a moment longer than he needs to? Isn’t being alive in this world only impeding his influence which can grow a thousand fold when the tzaddik is freed from his bodily constraints? • By Rabbi Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

One Friday night, I saw a young “shiur aleph” bachur who was “davening b’avoda.” I felt he wasn’t up to it and that it was coming from a more “chitzoniyusdike” place, so I told him some foolish sentence — I don’t even remember what it was — and his face fell. Sadly, I don’t remember him ever davening b’avoda again in the next two years I spent with him • By Rabbi Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

I find it particularly ironic that publications and productions that do a tremendously good job in making the Rebbe and his messages relevant to the world on a regular basis, are portraying an “old version” of the Rebbe, by effectively hiding the latest innovations in the Rebbe’s peulos and teachings, primarily Besuras HaGeula • By Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

We have artisan bakeries, a Kosher Vietnamese restaurant specializing in pho & ramen noodle selections, fine smoked meats, 24-hour coffee shops, liquor-infused ice cream, and many more “new-age” dining options, side-by-side with thriving traditional world-famous cholent-and-kugel places • By Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

When you take a child growing up in one world, without a kera, and you throw him into another world, in which everything is explainable and must be so, you create that “tear” in his mind and heart, which only causes suffering and anguish • By Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

We have become alienated from one another, and I think I know why. I believe that it’s a foolish reason and therefore find it disappointing, but at the same time, I’m relieved that that is all it is • Written by Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

While there is always a need to maintain our way of life, religious oppression — the most outstanding symbol of the “galus of the bodies” – is Baruch Hashem, a thing of the past. The world is rapidly adapting itself to a Geulah mode; think health, poverty, personal safety, growing world peace, and many other things • Written by Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

In this video, part of a series called “Holy Temple Myth Busters,” the speaker attempts to dispel a “myth” that the Beis Hamikdash will descend from Heaven. He busts the “myth” by citing sources that support his opinion while ignoring sources that speak of such an idea unless he can make them sound allegorical • Written by Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

“You are living in a bubble,” the shliach responded to his counterpart. “You guys are living in frum, Chabad communities but you know nothing of what’s happening in the real world, and yet you are passing judgment on what we are doing or not doing.” • Written by Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

The price tag that comes along with constructive criticism is that when the object of your criticism does something right you should point that out as well • Full Story

Anyone who sees himself as a Chassid of a present Rebbe, whether he chooses to call him Nasi Doreinu, Melech HaMoshiach, or just the Rebbe, cannot avoid dedicating some thought to where he or she stands in his faith in the Rebbe’s Besuras Hageula • Written by Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

The best reaction of all, was when the front page of a widespread German daily, the Bild, published on the front page a cut-out kippah for readers to assemble, complete with an explanatory video on the newspaper’s website • By the Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

We don’t criticize to put down others, we’re good people, we criticize because it makes us feel involved and active in running our home when we criticize our spouse; it makes us feel like we’re educating our children when we criticize them • By the Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

For many years, we are debating the matter, and it caused us to part paths too many times • So maybe this is a better idea — let’s have a “Moment of Silence” that all Lubavitch institutions, even those who are not yet ready to allow public expressions of simple faith in the Rebbe’s words, will begin their day with • By the Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article