Six hundred Chabad Houses have now launched Advice for Life, a brand-new JLI course that examines the Rebbe’s countless personal interactions with ordinary people to unpack practice guidance for everyday living.
After teaching the opening lesson, Rabbi Doron Aizenman, director of Chabad of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, says the lesson’s emotional power and broad appeal took him by surprise. “I was moved to tears during the introduction,” he says. “Thirty Jews from all backgrounds joined the lesson, and they enjoyed it.”
Uniquely (for a JLI course), Advice for Life was offered to all Chabad houses worldwide as a stand-alone course—even those that didn’t register for all three annual JLI courses. Thanks to a partnership with JEM, this course is uniquely packed with videos of the Rebbe’s personal interactions and eyewitness accounts of moving encounters. “The videos added a strong emotional impact,” Rabbi Aizenman reports.
For Rabbi Mendy Teldon, director of Chabad of Mid-Suffolk, New York, the course has proven a powerful and unique way to introduce his community to a core aspect of the Rebbe’s leadership. “The first class was amazing,” he says. “It was incredible to give my community this direct look at the Rebbe’s transformative impact on everyday people’s everyday lives.”
“We just finished the first lesson,” wrote Rabbi Shalom Moshe Paltiel, director of Chabad of Port Washington, New York. “It was an upper-deck home run; yasher koach to all those who took the bold move to present this course.”
Is this course available in Crown Heights somewhere?