Melava Malka Stories

She Wouldn’t Lie Even if Her Life Was In Danger

Following her illustrious husband’s passing, Rebbetzin Chana traveled to Moscow. She did not have any family left in Russia.

Tefillin in The Army

During the closing days of Israel’s 1982 Peace in Galilee campaign in Lebanon, I was one of a group of ten Chabad Chassidim who got permission from the army to enter Beirut to cheer up the soldiers.

The Broken Hearted Shofar Blowing

One year, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov said to Rabbi Ze’ev Kitzes, one of his senior disciples: “I would like to ask you to blow the shofar for us this Rosh Hashanah.

All is in Hashem’s hands and is for the good

Rabbi Yisroel Baal Shem Tov called his students together and said to them, “Come, I will show you what it means to welcome guests with real love and a joyful heart!”

The Maggid Brought Him Back

In the times of the Maggid of Mezritch, an unfortunate incident occurred. There was a woman who had a son who had a crazy idea enter his mind.

The Power of Tehilim

The young rabbi was appointed as a Dayan – judge – to adjudicate cases of Jewish law in the religious court in Be’er Sheva, Israel. He was a distinguished scholar and the youngest Dayan in all of Israel.

The Miraculous Turnover

In the early 1950’s, there lived a Jewish non-observant family in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York.

Reb Levi Yitzchak Schneerson’s Encounter’s With The Government

The Soviet communist government was determined to wipe out all traces of religion and belief in G-d, G-d forbid.

The Long Lasting Effect of Tehillim

During one of my routine visits to the hospital as a volunteer chaplain, I met Mr. Charles.

The Last Drop

Many years ago, in the time when the Holy Temple, the Beit Hamikdosh, stood, there lived in Jerusalem, two storekeepers named Rabbi Elazar Ben Tzadok and Abba Shaul Ben Botnit.