In this week’s episode of “Vision Unveiled,” a guide for life unpacked from Likkutei Sichos I & II, Rabbi Shmuel Wagner explores three distinct sichos on one theme: How committed are you?

Three distinct sichos – one theme: How committed are you?

(1) Vayigash 5711: Commitment to Your Children:

• Yehuda is committed to save his brother – against the mightiest viceroy of the world.
• A wealthy lawyer in 1950 Brooklyn is eventually persuaded to commit to saving his dying daughter – and not by means of $10,000.
• How committed are you to save your children from the spiritual dangers threatening to cripple today’s youth?

(2) Shemos 5713: Commitment to Yeshiva Education:

• Yaakov is committed to having a yeshiva in Egypt before he arrives – even though Hashem promised him that all will be alright.The Jewish slaves in Egypt don’t even have their own straw – but they are committed to sustaining their yeshiva.
• Ba’alabatim: How committed are you to financially supporting the yeshiva in your community?
• Bochurim: How committed are you to exclusively immersing yourself in a yeshiva lifestyle? Stop worrying about supporting the kids you don’t yet have from the wife you didn’t yet meet!

(3) Pesach 5714: Commitment to Instructions:

• Yosef plans this epic mivtza milah event – all lesheim shomayim, of course! But unfortunately, he wasn’t committed to listening to instructions (on the level expected of him), and golus mitzrayim consequently worsens…
• A Chabad activist in 1954 starts making hafotzo events in universities across America – all lesheim shomayim, of course! But unfortunately, he wasn’t committed to listening to the Rebbe’s instructions…
• You can’t go to war without weapons. You can’t extinguish a fire with kerosene. Sounds obvious, but some Rabbis in S. Petersburg, 1910, Leningrad, 1927, and New York, 1954, were not committed to that.
• How committed are you to stick to the standards, to adhere to the Authority, no matter how promising the opportunities appear to be?

Join us in this week’s Shiur on Vision Unveiled, Vayigash, as we learn from the Rebbe what it means to have a staunch and pure vision for committed yiddishkeit!