**OFFICIAL**

*climbs up onto soapbox, cough cough everyone listen up!!*

following are the OFFICIAL rules for this very choshuve, inspiring and otherwise all-amazing blog. those who fail to adhere to them will be severely frowned upon by yours truly.

#1: quote. it is absolutely forbidden to post anything without a source = the name of the speaker and preferably the date and place too (so that if any of us were there, we can tell you if your notes are off). if it's from online, like chabad.org or askmoses, paste the link as the title or at the very beginning of the post. because

a) it is easier to read from the original site, anyways

b) legally, those sites are copyrighted = you basically can't copy off of it without permission (altho they'll obviously let)

c) when you're reading an amazing story/insight from the original site, you just click around on it... read some more... end up on chabad.org for hours.... :) joke, but seriously one good deed leads to another....

d) One who says something in the name of its speaker brings redemption to the world, as is stated, "And Esther told the king in the name of Mordechai." (Pirkei Avos, 6:6)

#2: if it is your own chidush, that is totally unbelievable. however, you MUST say that it is your own idea. because

a) you have to quote, remember? (see rule #1)
b) if I think it is totally amazing and want to later repeat it... i have to be aware that while what you said was very inspiring, it basically has no source. it's important to realize which ideas come from text, which from speakers, and which from our own brilliant chassidic minds which are able to come up with brillian chassidic thoughts.

thanks everyone!!

*steps off soapbox*