This Ma’amar said by the Rebbe on his fiftieth birthday deals with the idea of this Possuk which is added at the beginning of the Amida and appears to interrupt the סמיכות גאולה לתפילה. The Gemara explains it using the logic of תפילה אריכתה. The Ma’amar explains that תפילה אריכתא means much more than an...

Short Version Introduction:Farbrengen Short Version Part One: Six words: 1) Derech 2) Torah 3) Aidus, 4) Pikudim, 5) Chukim, 6) Mitzvos Short Version Part Two: Last six words: 7) Mishpatim, 8) Tzedaka, 9) Devarim, 10) Amiros, 11) Orach, 12) Niflaos Kapital 119 (5780/ 2020) Class One.176 Pesukim, longest Parsha (Nasso) longest Kapital Tehillim (119) and...

An overview of some ideas and quotes that are basic to the Rebbe’s teachings.

(this is a Ma’amar (one of two) said at the farbrengen for 11 Nissan; the Rebbe turned sixty years old that year). Class One. Tohu and Tikun, what is the reason for the difference? This Ma’amar explores this question all the way to the highest source, and explains that it has to do with how...

Shorter Version. Longer Version.

Bayom Ashtei Asar Yom 5731 PDF Bayom Ashtei Asar Yom 5731, Class One.This class includes Perek 1, 10, 11, 12, 13 of the Ma’amar.The questions are raised (in the beginning) and resolved (in the end). Which comes first, Yidden’s choosing Hashem? or Hashem’s choosing Yidden? and the answer… His choosing Yidden allows Yidden to choose...

A gift to the Rebbe, by understanding the gift OF the Rebbe.

Stories and thoughts about the Rebbe, leadership and sacrifice. The audio quality isn’t that good, we’re sorry.

The word זה can only really refer to Hashem Himself, because in everything He is the true substance of it. However, the word זה is also used for G-Dliness because of its דביקות, attachedness to Him. To be sure קליפה is also called (occasionally) זה לעומת זה, because it only exists to challenge Yidden to...

1) Defiance, 2) Principle, 3) Sacrifice, 4) Action.

Short Version. Long Version. Class One. Introduction. Long Version. Class Two. Introduction continued. Three ideas of klipa into Kedusha. Pnimiyus. Long Version. Class Three. Beginning of Kapital. Long Version. Class Four. rest of Kapital.

Farbrengen with thought on the קפיטל at the end. 1) Tuesday twice כי טוב like Friday the day the Rebbe was born. Changing the paradigm Chassidus begins with helping others. Two levels of Mesiras Nefesh: 1) To give ourselves to G-d. 2) To give ourselves to G-d’s cause.

Ki Yishalcha 5738 (Class One)This first class (on this most complex of Ma’amarim) is the heart (center or Biur) of the Ma’amar as a whole. [Chapters 4-7].The three levels of עדות חוקים משפטים are explored here.In Pshat the oreder should be משפטים חוקים עדותBut here the Possuk orders them differently: עדות חוקים משפטים and the...

Short Version. Long Version. Class One. “Mi Yimalel Givurod Hashem” (“Who can speak the strength of Hashem”). Long Version. Class Two. “Ashrei Shomrei Mishpat….Zochreini….Vayigar biYam Suf….” Long Version. Class Three. 1) Korach, 2) Kivros Hata’ava, 3) Miraglim, 4) Eiegel. Long Version. Class Four. 1) Miraglim, 2) Mei Miriva, 3) Mishandling (entry into) Kina’an, 4) Hashems...

Short Version. Long Version. Class One. Introduction. Yodu LaHashem Chasdo viNifliosuv liVnei Adam. (We must thank Hashem for all His kindness and miracles He does to man). Long Version. Class Two. First three Posukim. Long Version. Class Three. Midbar (desert) What it means spiritually. Long Version. Class Four. Beis HaAsuri (prison) in the spiritual sense....

Short Version. Long Version. Class One. Introduction. Long Version. Class Two. Actual Kapital inside.

Long Version. Class One. Introduction. The entire Kapital inside (p’shat). Long Version. Class Two. Chassidic commentary on five of the Pisukim. Long Version. Class Three. First half with commentary. Long Version. Class Four. Second half with commentary.

Short Version. Beis Rivka Seminary. The Kapital has three basic ideas 1) Avrohom, 2) Dovid, 3) Moshiach. One can explain all of it on each of these three levels. Some basic thoughts. One can learn the entire Kapital as referring to 1) Avrohom, 2) Dovid, 3) Moshiach. Long Version (Beis Midrash LiNashim). Class One. The...

Short Version (Beis Rivka seminary). The Kapital which is about the of praise of Hashem really comes down to the need for, and the strengthening of, Faith as indicated in its last Possuk: Raishis Chochma, Yiras Hashem. It explores Hashem’s miracles to the world as a whole, to Yidden especially in this world. It reveals...

Short Version Kapital 112 (5773/2013). (Beis Rivka seminary). This kapital (112), deals with a Yid who is on the level of BiChal MiOdecha, it is all for God. and he achieves blessing also on the earth. The first part of the Kapital is between man and God and the rest is about the relationship with...

Short Version (Beis Rivka seminary). For this year 5774. Kapital 113. Halel is about our exodus from Mitzrayim. This chapter is about going from darkness to light, thus the referencing and contrasting to Avoda Zara’s idea that Hashem is only in the heavens and not on earth. This is alluded to in the words ‘Avdei...

Kapital 114. Beis Midrash Linashim: Class One Short version (overview) This is a very happy Perek, with four miracles: 1) The exodus from Egypt. 2) The birth of the Jewish nation. 3) Krias Yam Suf, the splitting of the sea. 4) Mattan Torah, the giving of the Torah. The first two are not questioned, the...

11 Nissan 5776 (2016) Kapital 115 Beis Rivka Seminary. Short Version. הלל בגלות. עצביהם כסף וזהב… ישראל בטח בהוי’ה Beis Midrash Linashim: Short Version. עצביהם כסף וזהב מעשי ידי אדם …פה להם ולא ידברו, עינים להם ולא יראו ישראל בטח בהוי’ה Longer Version Class One Introduction. This Perek in Halel, is somehow a combination of...

11 Nissan 5777 Kapital 116. Short Version: Pittsburgh Farbrengen. יקר בעיני הוי’ המותה לחסידיו. Dovid praises Hashem as he sees how the hardest things in his life made him the Chossid he eventually became. Beis Rivka Seminary. Introduction and quick read of the entire Perek. Long Version: Beis Midrash Linashim: Class One. Introduction part one....

11 Nissan 5778, The Rebbe’s Kapital 117. In Short (Beis Midrash Linashim). Ten minutes on the Perek. In Short. Given to Beth Rivkah Seminary, a thought with the Kapital. Being Chassidim. The פרק When even Goyim praise Him. Class One. Introduction: This is the fifth הלל. The first four were about the initial יציאת מצרים...

Summary Perek 118: This class is an overview of the entire Kapital given for Beis Rivka seminary This is the Halel (reveal, celebrate) of Hodaya (this that we must accept because it is beyond comprehending). Class one: Introduction about Hallel: The idea of miracles and revelation, is not every day. The six chapters of Hallel are six...

A י”א ניסן Ma’amar. Class One .The בן חכם knows what עדות חוקים ומשפטים are. He is questioning the אשר ציוה ה’ אלוקינו אתכם the constant in all three categories is that Hashem must command us to do the עדות חוקים ומשפטים because we would do none of them on our own. In other words...

A י”א ניסן מאמר Class One. Introduction: to explain the timelessness of Yetzias Mitzrayim. Why we keep referring to Yetzias Mitzrayim throughout all of Galuyos, This is understood by focusing on the Ruchniyus of Yiddishkeit as a priority over the Gashmiyus. The spiritual process of mind to heart provides for a daily need for going...

Tefilla LiDovid 5747. This Kapital was the Rebbe’s from 11 NISSAN 5747-5748. The Rebbe’s maamar explores the very heart of the Kapital: it is 86 which corresponds to the divine name Elokim. The Maamar adresses 3 levels of Elokim and how each is sweetened by Havaya. It concludes with the notion of the sweetening of...

(A 11 Nissan Ma’amar). Class One. The first half of this Ma’amar explains the idea that we continue to leave Mitzrayim in space and in time (as we journey through our history and move from place to place) until Moshiach comes. He explores the highest source of Mitzrayim in the highest levels of Lifnai HaTzimtzum,...

Ki Yishalcha Bincha 5744. The Ben Chochom already knows Aidus Chukim and Mishpatim, what is bothering him is, why our Yiddishkeit is different than the Avos and is connected to action. The answer is that ‘Avadim haYinu’-, the challenges in Mitzrayim raised us up to the level of being able to elevate physical things also....

Stories of the Lubavitcher Rebbe – Gimmel Tammuz Fabrengen MP3

A lesson in humility.

More stories (early years) (5767). This talk on the childhood years of the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson) will be enjoyed by the whole family. The stories of the Rebbe’s childhood provide insight into his character and great accomplishments but also the period in which he grew up. There may be some repetition here....

Class One. The biography of the Rebbe. His origins, ancestors and early years part one. Born in Nikolayev and his wondrous childhood. At the age of seven they moved to Yeketrinislav (Dineperputruvsk). Class Two. Stories about the Rebbe’s early years. His intellectual genius in Torah and all other areas of knowledge. The immigrants in World...

Introduction to the Page: A series of classes given at the Beis Rivka Seminary in Brooklyn, highlighting many of the Rebbe’s very original ideas to preserve and strengthen Yiddishkeit. This series is based on the Rebbe’s biography found in the beginning of the “Hayom Yom”. 1. North Africa. The first and perhaps most successful of...

Moshiach Longer Version (5776) Class One. 1) RaMbaM predicting return of (special kind of) Prophecy as preparation for the coming, The Rebbe connects this to the great onset and radiation of Kabalah and Mikubalim at the time the RaMbaM predicted (4,976/1276)/ 2) The Arizal- beginning of the third Ashmora of the night. BeShT morning of...

Talk One Introduction. Giving the post-Holocaust generation the Rebbe was a gift that Hashem really gave Himself. להשם הישועה. Talk Two, The Kapital 116. יקר בעיני הוי’ המותה לחסידיו. Dovid praises Hashem as he sees how the hardest things in his life made him the Chossid he eventually became. Talk Three, Chinuch. Chinuch cannot be...

1) A bond of a Soul and a Soul, deeper than the bond of a husband and a wife. 2) The sign of a Chossid is that you see his Rebbe in him: He has lost his “Geshmak” in Olom Hazeh. 3) A story about writing to the Rebbe.

A Farbrengen with Beis Rivkah High School. Three Rebbes: 1) The general, 2) The father, 3) The Teacher. Our relationship should be a fusion of all three ideas.

Things the Rebbe said of Yud Aleph Nissan.

(Beis Rivka High School) 11 Nissan talk. six stories in three categories: A. Kiruv. 1) Reuven Dunin’s story, 2) Velvel Green’s story. B. Mesiras Nefesh, 3) The Yid in Romania and Rabbi Hirshprung, 4) Reb Yossef Mochkin, the six day war, ‘bicharbi uvikasgti’. C. Hiskashrus, 5) Reb Mendel’s ‘Pan BiMachshava’, 6) Haber, Paris, the Rebbe...

The 11 Nissan Farbrengen and class 1) The significance of the number 110. Like Yosef (who lived that many years) and was immersed altogether in the world and was simultaneously completely above it. The same is true of the Rebbe, 2) The Kapital overviewed (again). It is about faith in Hashem being the master (not...

(1) The Neshama bond exists between all Yidden, but we aren’t all equal. (We are collectively like contributing parts of the body,) some are the mind, eyes, heart, etc. while others are the hair, skin, and nails. The Rebbe is the head. Through his Neshama, other Neshamos are connected to Hashem./div>< (2) Directions for life// The...