Mission Statement

To provide the tools needed to empower the Believer to study for themselves, between them and the Lord, using the original languages of scripture, Biblical Hebrew & N.T. Aramaic.

The Candle

Late one night, two hours into an audience with the Rebbe, the Israeli diplomat Yehuda Avner asked, “Rebbi, what is it that you seek to accomplish?”

“Yehuda,” said the Rebbe to Avner, Look there, on the shelf. What do you see?”

“A candle,” he replied.

“No, it’s not a candle; it’s just a lump of wax with a string down the middle. When does this lump of wax become a candle? When you bring a flame to the wick.”

His voice rising, the Rebbe continued in a Talmudic sing-song:“The wax is the body of the human being, and the wick is the soul. The flame is the fire of Torah. When the soul is ignited by the flame of torah, that’s when the person becomes a candle, achieving the purpose for which he was created.

“This is what I try to do—to help every man and woman achieve the purpose for which they were created.”

An hour later, with the sun about to rise and the meeting drawing to a close, Avner asked, “So has the Rebbe lit my candle?”

“No,” answered the Rebbe quietly. “I have given you the match. Only you can light your own candle.”