Nechemia Schusterman

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Oct 27, 2023, 6:08 AM

I Will Love As Much As You Hate

As a child, I remember the talk around the Holocaust, that the Nazi's didn't distinquish between the religious Rebbe's and the secular, assimilated Jews that didn't look like Jews at least externally. I remember hearing that but being unable to relate...

Oct 18, 2023, 7:47 PM

The Iron Reawakening – How The Attack on Israel is awakening Jewish Souls

On October 7th the terror group Hamas unleashed the most heinous terror attack on Israel in their State’s 75 year history, and possibly the most vile, and evil and ferocious attack in world history. The carnage, wanton slaughter, rapeings,...

Nov 30, 2017, 11:39 PM

Stepping Back to Leap Forward

Parenting is one of those journeys, that clarifies and validates much of the wisdom that heretofore was ancient outdated nonsense of a generation gone by. Our parents and educators espoused much wisdom, in the form of clichés and other witticisms,...

Jun 26, 2017, 10:25 PM

Disrupter in Chief

Disrupter in chief (Are Chabad Rabbi's Nuts?) Are you crazy? Why would you do that? It must be so hard? How do you do it? You Chabadniks are nuts! If I had a nickel for every time I heard one of...

Dec 9, 2015, 1:36 PM

The world is on fire — which fire is up to you

The world is on fire... with menorah lights, that is. Literally, millions of menorahs,communal and private, in houses and shuls, on city streets and in state buildings, are all on fire. The menorahs of light, on fire, casting their beautiful...

Sep 7, 2015, 11:05 AM

My childhood memories of slichos

I am around 10 years old. It is the middle of the night, and my father is shaking me awake. I am tired, I want to roll over and just go back to bed. It feels cold outside of my...

Jul 5, 2015, 11:53 AM

The Dreamliner Defining Chabadniks

I'm in Israel celebrating the Bar Mitzva of dear friends, and we flew in on one of those new fancy dreamliners courtesy of Air Canada. As I boarded and squeezed through the narrow aisles, and received different looks from the...

Aug 12, 2014, 12:44 PM

Why talking about the war with Hamas is like talking about Chanukah or Purim

I used to have a policy that in my shul that we don't talk sports and we don't talk politics. Period. At the Kiddush a little bit of sports is allowed (we are Bostonians) after all), but politics is always...

Jul 30, 2014, 5:00 PM

Oy Israel – Oy Gaza – Avoiding The Next Holocaust?

I have refrained from blogging or posting on Facebook (aside from an occasional “share”) due to bombardment of reporting and negative and heartbreaking news and what I will call media lethargy. But I can remain silent no longer. We have...

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About Me

Rabbi Nechemia Schusterman is a Chabad Rabbi in Peabody MA. Together with his wife Raizel and 7 beautiful children, the run Jewish activities in the area. He is passionate about Israel and Judaism. He has authored articles, that have been widely published, including Chabad.org.