How a conversation Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to Congress, had with the Rebbe, turned disappointment into opportunity and helped feed hungry children across America.
When a widow shared how lonely she felt with the Rebbe, he shared a powerful message of hope and the essential truth: We're never alone, because G-d is always with us.
In 1974, Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak Hecht, a Chabad rabbi in New Haven, Connecticut, wrote to the Rebbe after 33 years of tremendous work, begging the Rebbe to help him.
The secretariat office was already closed for the day, so Rabbi Yosef Wineberg slipped the urgent letter through the Rebbe’s door. Then the unexpected happened.
A group of Israelis wounded whilst serving in the IDF came to Brooklyn for an exclusive visit with the Rebbe. The Rebbe insisted on changing and reframing their disability to positive empowerment.
When a bereaved mother was inconsolable after the loss of her young son, she came to the Rebbe desperate for comfort and left with an entirely new perspective.
Zalmon Jaffe, a prominent businessman from Manchester, UK, had a close connection with the Rebbe. When he shared concern about his business fortunes, the Rebbe’s reply rings true in many areas of life.
Avraham Rottenberg was distraught and worried after finding out that his father suffered a heart attack. The Rebbe showed him the power of positive thinking.
The Rebbe conveyed a life lesson to the famed Chassidic artist Hendel Lieberman: the primary talent of an artist is to see past the externalities of something and capture its inner life—exposing the essence of the thing being portrayed.
