By COLlive reporter
This past Thursday night, on Rosh Chodesh Kislev, N’shei U’Bnos Chabad organized an event in Crown Heights honoring the 35th anniversary of the Rebbe’s return home after suffering a heart attack in 1977.
The guest speaker was Rabbi Simon Jacobson, author of best seller “Toward a Meaningful Life,” who addressed the long and hotly debated question: What did the Rebbe mean when he said that “The world is ready for Moshiach. Just open your eyes – I have done all I can. Now do what you can.”?
Speaking to a packed hall, he delivered what organizers called “an amazing and unprecedented talk, filled with practical suggestions” for what we can do to fulfill the Rebbe’s words and help bring Moshiach.
In his dramatic talk, Rabbi Jacobson revealed for the first time, the Rebbe’s edits on a talk he delivered in honor of the Kinus Hashluchim linking Moshiach and the heart attack that took place 14 years earlier.
“After 21 years since these words were uttered by the Rebbe, isn’t it about time that we took it personally to heart and finally did something that will change the status quo?!” he asked.
Rabbi Jacobson went on to lay out a strategy for helping realize the Rebbe’s missive to us. He spelled out 4 suggestions that each chossid can implement, eagerly embraced by all those gathered.
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For a change someone speaking to us as intelligent learned women. Specific ideas to take home and implement them.
Thank you Rabbi Jacobson.
Agreed! It was very refreshing
1. Feel the Rebbe spoke to you personally about G&M, and asked you, in yechidus, “What did you do?”
2. Visualize what the world will look like with Moshiach, especially in Tanya 36 & 37. Be able to describe it. (Women must also learn Chassidus.)
3. Mothers should make projects with their kids about what the world will look like with Moshiach, every day
4. Discuss G&M with people you know–religious, secular, not Jewish, in language they would relate to.
thank you
Very refreshing. Thank you so much!