Psychoanalysis and the Rebbe: Volume 5, Issue 37, Matos-Masei
- Sefas Tamim
- Jul 25
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Updated: Jul 31
July 26, 2025; 1 Av, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara
The Rebbe Rashab of Chabad was known as a man of complete Emes (truth), earning the profound respect of the great Rav Chaim Soloveitchik ZT”L. His teaching on integrity was clear and uncompromising: "Truth is the middle path. An inclination to the right - to be overly stringent with oneself and find faults with oneself that are not really there; or an inclination to the left - to be overly lenient with oneself, rationalizing one’s faults and being overly lenient and ignoring the demands of Avodas Hashem (service to Hashem) out of self-love — both of the above are pathways of falsehood..."