Watch: 13 Most Powerful Moments with Rabbi Lipskar

Beyond being a devoted chossid and successful shliach, Rabbi Sholom Ber Lipskar was an impactful speaker, inspiring tens of thousands of people. Anash.org presents a short collection of powerful video clips highlighting special moments and feelings.

By Anash.org staff

This past Shabbos, Rabbi Sholom Ber Lipskar, Shliach of Bal Harbour, FL and founding rabbi of The Shul and the Aleph Institute, passed away.

Beyond being a devoted chossid and successful shliach, Rabbi Lipskar was an impactful speaker who inspired tens of thousands around the world. He constantly implored his audience to dedicate themselves to the Rebbe and to fulfill the Rebbe’s lifelong goal to bring Moshiach.

Anash.org presents a short collection of video clips and excerpts from his speeches and interviews, along with clips of individuals sharing their personal interactions with him.

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“He Changed My Life!”

“Rabbi Shalom Lipskar from Miami changed my life!” an emotional man tells the Rebbe at Sunday Dollars. “In the good direction!” the Rebbe responded.

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“I’m Traveling with You, But it Must be with Joy”

In this clip, Rabbi Lipskar describes the yechidus that he and his wife had at the start of their shlichus. “I am travelling with you,” the Rebbe told them, “but it must be b’simcha.” The Rebbe then added, “If not, then why must you take me along with you?”

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“Yasher Koach, Shalom Ber!”

In 5726 (1966), Rabbi Lipskar was the learning director of Gan Yisroel and brought the Rebbe a gift of 10,000 Mishnayos by heart. He describes the thank you he got from the Rebbe. “You can’t replace that with anything!”

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Gazing at the Sun without Sunglasses

Rabbi Lipskar describes the transformative yechidus he had with the Rebbe that changed his life. The Rebbe’s radiance “was like gazing at the sun without sunglasses.”

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The Miraculous Wake-up from a Coma

Rabbi Lipskar relates the unbelievable story of how the Rebbe personally woke him up from his coma and what it means for each one of us today. “He didn’t ask how I was feeling, he told me what I needed to do!”

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A Fresh Perspective of the World

In an interview on live television, Rabbi Lipskar talks about how viewing the Rebbe’s perception on materialism charges us to view the world differently. “The world is here to serve man, not man to serve the world.”

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Love the Rebbe

“If you love the Rebbe when you’re driving a Mitzva tank that doesn’t mean you love the Rebbe,” Rabbi Lipskar says at a farbrengen in 770. “If you think about him right before you go to sleep, then you know that you love the Rebbe”.

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“Tell Me All the Names”

In 5747 (1987), Mr. Jerry Levine was working as an anchorman for Miami’s Channel 10 News when Rabbi Lipskar asked him to get involved in the Aleph Institute. When he wrote the Rebbe for a bracha, the response he got seemed somewhat puzzling…

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How Aleph Began

Rabbi Lipskar describes how the Aleph Institute began.

“There are hundreds of thousands of Jews waiting for someone to come out on teffilin with them”, the Rebbe said at a farbrengen, “and I’m referring to the Jews in prison!” That night, the Aleph Institute was founded.

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“The Rebbe Did Not Forsake Me”

While still recovering from Covid, Rabbi Lipskar speaks passionately at an online farbrengen, how even in these dark moments, the Rebbe is present as ever, yet it is the duty of every chossid to bring Moshiach.

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What are you doing to bring Moshiach?

At the gathering in Florida in connection with 30 years to 3 Tammuz, Rabbi Lipskar implores from the audience to do everything they can to heed the Rebbe’s cry, to bring Moshiach and to finally be reunited with the Rebbe.

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Healing the Pain

In a speech at the national Jewish retreat, following the collapse of the Surfside Towers, Rabbi Lipskar discusses the Jewish response to unfathomable tragedy.

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The Rebbe Woke Up Our Essence

Rabbi Lipskar explores in depth what a Rebbe is and the way to connect with him. He explains passionately how this is true even after Gimmel Tammuz and the need for everyone to do their part to connect with the Rebbe and bring Moshiach.

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“Be the Rebbe’s Representative!”

In a passionate talk to shluchim, Rabbi Lipskar dispelled the myth that a shliach needs to lower himself to his crowd through jokes and sports. “Stay in your lane! They will respect you. Tell them divrei Torah, it works! When you represent the Rebbe, Presidents will talk to you!”

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