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Torah
A thought for every day of the Hebrew year, from the Rebbe’s book. It is the same entry every year, on the same Hebrew date.
12 Kislev 5787
Baruch shepetarani[1] (Sidur p. 70) is said without mentioning G‑d's Name or Kinghood. It is said on Mondays, Thursdays or Rosh Chodesh, not only on Shabbat.
We have a tradition attributed to the Baal Shem Tov: When one hears an uncomplimentary report about another Jew, even if he does not know the individual referred to, he should be very deeply pained. For one of these two is certainly in the wrong: If what they are saying about the individual is true, then he is defective; and if it is not true, then the talebearer is in an unhealthy situation.
Compiled and arranged by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, in 5703 (1943) from the talks and letters of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory.
B'racha recited by the father of a 13-year-old boy, at the first Torah-reading following his son's attaining the age of Bar-Mitzva.
Footnotes
ברכת שפטרני מברכים בלא שם ומלכות, ומברכים אותה גם ביום ב', ה', בר"ח [בראש חודש], ולאו דוקא בשבת. מקובל בידינו בשם מורנו הבעש"ט [הבעל שם טוב]: כששומעים דבר לא טוב על אחד מישראל, גם אם אין מכירים אותו, צריך להצטער צער רב, כי אחד מהם הוא בודאי לא טוב: אם אמת הדבר שמספרים על פלוני, הלא הוא לא טוב, ואם אינו אמת הלא המספר נמצא במצב לא טוב.
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Hayom Yom, compiled and arranged by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, in 5703 (1943) from the talks and letters of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory. Text from chabad.org.