The story is told of a prominent Finnish composer who threw a lavish party. At the party, his close confidant noticed something puzzling. “Your entire identity is music, and yet your guest list has hedge fund managers, real estate moguls, and finance...
Dr. Yaakov Brawer was a professor at McGill University of Montreal and would frequently lecture at Shabbatons in Brooklyn. It happened once that after speaking at one such Shabbaton, he wanted to daven minchahh with the Rebbe before he would travel home. His flight...
As a young rabbi studying in Kolel, Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan was asked to help counsel a struggling teenager navigating severe mental health issues. The young girl was corresponding with the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Rabbi Shmuel’s job was to explain the Rebbe’s...
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin was studying in Israel when he received an urgent call from his mother. His father had just suffered a heart attack and was in the hospital. Joseph immediately traveled home to be by his father’s bedside. His father, Shlomo Telushkin, was...
