VIDEO: COLlive presents the popular program "Shabbos Night Live" by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director of Lubavitch Youth Organization. Story for Parshas Vayakhel & Pekudei: At a 1953 Farbrengen, the Rebbe cried out "Hoo-ra, hoo-ra, hoo-ra" (meaning: he is evil). One day later they announced the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Also: Why didn't the Rebbe ever go to visit Israel? Video
The Epiphany in the Courthouse
VIDEO SHIUR: COLlive presents the popular program "Shabbos Night Live" by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director of Lubavitch Youth Organization. Story for Parshas Ki Tiso: The revelation a man had of the Rebbe standing near him in the courthouse. "What are you doing?" he was asked. Also: Why does the Zohar say that Yom Kippur is like Purim and what is the connection between Purim and the Parsha Ki Tiso? Video
The Rebbe’s Arrest on Purim
VIDEO SHIUR: COLlive presents the popular program "Shabbos Night Live" by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director of Lubavitch Youth Organization. Story for Purim: How did the Lubavitcher Rebbe react to his own arrest on the day of Purim. And: What did the Baal Shem Tov say about Purim and what did Haman say to Mordechai when he saw him talking to children? Video
A Day Before 26 of Adar
VIDEO SHIUR: COLlive presents the popular program "Shabbos Night Live" by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director of Lubavitch Youth Organization. Story for Parshas Truma: A day before the 26th of Adar I, 5752, participants of the Israeli bonds convention meet the Rebbe and one of them is given four extra dollars. Ten years later he found out why. And: What does one violate when he breaks something in a 'Shtible'? Video
The Rebbe ‘Found’ the Moon
VIDEO SHIUR: COLlive presents the popular program "Shabbos Night Live" by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director of Lubavitch Youth Organization. Story for Parshas Mishpotim: When the moon was not seen, the Rebbe left to his mother's home to make Havdalah. In honor of Kinus Hashluchos: The special role of Jewish women in bringing Moshiach and the connection between the word Moshiach and the Rebbetzin. Video
Rebbe Saw Orthopedic Problem
VIDEO SHIUR: COLlive presents the popular program "Shabbos Night Live" by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director of Lubavitch Youth Organization. Story for Parshas Yisro: A miracle of the Rebbe telling a husband to check his Tefillin and send the results to his wife's doctor. And: how should a Jew eat, and what is the meaning of the previous Rebbe's answer "this is not cucumbers." Video
Rebbe Rayatz Was Pro-Women
VIDEO SHIUR: COLlive.com presents the popular program "Shabbos Night Live" by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director of Lubavitch Youth Organization. Story for Parshas Beshalach: A women whose husband abandoned her was told by the Rebbe to return home immediately. In honor of Yud Shvat: Why did the Previous Rebbe laugh when he fell, what was his greatest sacrifice and the two great areas of activities: education and activities among Jewish women. Video
Rebbe’s Comment to Erloy
VIDEO SHIUR: COLlive.com presents the popular program "Shabbos Night Live" by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director of Lubavitch Youth Organization. For Parshas Bo: When an entourage of thirty Erloy Chassidim met the Rebbe, one of them was told to check the Mezuzos in his hime - and the doors too. And: Several more stories of the previous Rebbe. Video
German Nurse Poisoned Jew
VIDEO SHIUR: COLlive.com presents the popular program "Shabbos Night Live" by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director of Lubavitch Youth Organization. For Parshas Vo'eirah: The German nurse whom the Rebbe told someone to replace confessed she intentionally poisoned a Jewish patient. And: Why did the Alter Rebbe put the blessing for "materialism" before "spirituality?" VIDEO
Rebbe Foresaw Beirut Bombing
VIDEO SHIUR: COLlive.com presents the popular program "Shabbos Night Live" by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director of Lubavitch Youth Organization. For Parshas Shemos: The Lubavitcher Rebbe's comment about Israel's secretive invasion of the Beirut airport. And: the connection between the Rambam and the Alter Rebbe, and the speciality of Tefillin. VIDEO
Mysterious Mission to Tokyo
VIDEO SHIUR: COLlive.com presents the popular program "Shabbos Night Live" by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director of Lubavitch Youth Organization. For Parshas Vayechi: a mysterious story of the Rebbe who told a Chossid to take a package to Tokyo, Japan and "see there what to do with it." And: Why are the 17 years in Egypt "the best years," and what is the message for our generation. VIDEO
The Mormon and the Rebbe
WEEKLY SHIUR: COLlive.com presents the popular program "Shabbos Night Live" by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director of Lubavitch Youth Organization. For Parshas Vayigash: a story about a person who introduced himself to the Rebbe as a Mormon and the Rebbe's firm answer. In honor of the 5th of Teves: What did the Rebbe MaHarash asked R' Don Tumarkin to get him and what was the greatness of Yehuda Video
When to Give Chanukah Gelt
WEEKLY SHIUR: COLlive.com presents the popular program "Shabbos Night Live" by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director of Lubavitch Youth Organization. In the class this week for Chanukah: A story about the Rebbe suprising doctors at a world renowned Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh; Which Lubavitch Rebbe didn't know the form of a coin and on which day do we give children Chanukah Gelt. Watch in Video