Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: Who said that "a Rebbe is also a navie"? How was the Rebbe Rayatz similar to Moshe Rabbeinu? why is it that only Moshe Rabbeinu was "heavy tongued"? Video
The Saying of the Slonimer Rebbe
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The saying of the Slonimer Rebbe that the Rebbe Rashab asked to repeat; The connection of Chof Daled Teves to the Parsha of Vaera; the comment of the Alter Rebbe about the chossid that was "burning." Video
Blessing Wasn’t Needed – At First
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The blessing the Rebbe gave for a "full recovery" had left a healthy woman puzzled for years...; the similarity between the generation of Yetzias Mitzrayim and our generation. Video
The 2 Factors of Didan Notzach
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The 2 factors of the Didan Notzach victory and can we act in a form of Geulah while we are still in Golus? The answer is in our Parsha. Video
The Rebbe’s Chanukah Miracle
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The Rebbe's Chanukah Miracle; Chanukah 5690 (1929) that the Rebbe Rayatz spent in Crown Height 90 years ago; The connection between Hey Teves and Yud Shvat, especially this year. Video
When the Rebbe Mentioned “Calcutta”
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: A special Chanukah story about the Rebbe and why are Chanukah feasts optional and Purim feasts obligatory? The preparation to Yud Shvat -- 70 Years of the Nesius of the Rebbe. Video
He Ran Out of the Rebbe’s Room…
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: What changed between the first day when the Alter Rebbe was arrested and the 53rd day when the Alter Rebbe was liberated and what brought about the liberation? Video
Stories of the Rebbe & Rebbetzin’s Wedding
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: Stories of the Rebbe and Rebbetzin's wedding; The Medrash says Yaakov's donkey was the donkey of Moshiach, as it says 'a poor man riding on a donkey'. What is the connection? Video
The Rebbe Met Him in an Elevator
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The Rebbe met him in an Elevator and the many parallels between the Shlichus of Yaakov Ovinu and the Shlichus of the Rebbe. Video
When the Lights Closed in the Rebbe’s Room
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: When the lights in the Rebbe's room closed at 7:28 PM. And the brocha that the Rebbe gives Shluchim even before they go on Shlichus. Video
“Didn’t You Write Me 20 Years Ago?”
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: "Didn't you write me a letter 20 years ago?" the Rebbe asked. Plus: Why was Eliezer, servant of Avraham, answered before he even finished his davening? Video
The Rebbe Sent Him 2 Invitations
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: As a child, the Rebbe Rashab cried that Hashem does not reveal Himself to him as he did to Avrohm Ovinu. Why are all children told about that story? Video
‘Maybe You Offended Someone in a Shidduch?’
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The weekly story of the Rebbe and the explanation of the Rebbe why "all of Israel" waits for a single Jew to return home - a most visible and practical way of Ahavas Yisroel. Video
“What is Better 25% or 75%”
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: "Veyaakov Holach Ledarko" -- "And Yaakov Went On His Way". There are several meanings of the word "Ledarko." Video
When the Rebbe and His Father Danced
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: What really happens when a Jew carries the Sefer Torah to Hakofos? How did the Rebbe Maharash explain the posuk “Veyiheyu Na.” Video
A Story the Rebbe’s Father Told
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The "Halachic" Sukkah in Lemberg in 1946 and what is the connection between the "Schach" and the "Shofar", and how to "feel" the Sukkah. Video
The Zechus of Helping Rebbetzin Chana
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The zechus of helping Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson and the incredible explanations of the Rebbe on the entire Maftir about Eili and Chana. Video
Rebbe: No Need for Stress Test
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: A story about Reb Biyomin Wuliger OBM who lived until 96; why man was created alone on the "6th Day." Video
The Segulah That Saved a Newborn
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The instruction of the Rebbe that saved a child of a Holocaust survivor and the lesson from the king’s bread. Video
A “Mes Mitzvah” in Crown Heights
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: a story about a “Mes Mitzvah” in Crown Heights; the similarity between the Rebbe and the Rambam in how to treat Jewish people. Video
The Rebbe’s Brocha to An African American
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman - special for the beginning of the school year: Why do children blame their parents and the special message of Tznius from our Parsha. Video
The Rebbe Asked, “Why is He Asking Again?”
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The answer to a mother in Boro Park who came to the Rebbe for the first time about her son in Switzerland; the condition of making requests from "the king in the field" during Elul. Video
When Reb Levi Yitzchok Came to Moscow for Shabbos
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: A story of Reb Levi Yitzchok Schneerson and a similar one with the Rebbe in Paris in 1947; the personal note sent from exile; The Kabbalistic explanation of the numbers 656 and 5. Video
The Favor the Rebbe Asked in Paris in 1937
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman - marking the yartzeit of the Rebbe's father, R' Levi Yitzchok Schneerson OBM: The favor the Rebbe asked, the message of both names Levi and Yitzchok, and a hidden reference to the Rebbe's mother. Video
‘Came As a Misnaged, Left a Chossid’
Shabbos Night Live (post Tisha B'Av) with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: A personal account of a bochur from Bnei Brak and does the word Ami ("Nachamu Nachamu Ami") have another meaning? Video