From the desk of Editor-in-Chief of Beis Moshiach Magazine, Rabbi Levi Liberow: First of all, we need to properly define for ourselves: What is the Besuras HaGeula that we want to announce? Or to borrow the terminology of Kuntres Toras HaChassidus, “its wisdom, its essential character and its function in acquiring the elevated qualities of man.” • Click to Read
One of the main problems I have with applying the primary message of “Yatir M’b’chayohi” to our situation after Gimmel Tammuz is the last line in Siman Chaf Zayin in Iggeres Hakodesh, making a clear distinction between connecting to a Tzaddik before and after his histalkus • By Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article
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
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