Toras Menachem vol. 25 page 309 ff. Bamidbar 5719 Class One: Page 309-10. The question: why is the location of the count of Yidden “Midbar Sinai” pointed out at the beginning of Parshas Bamidbar? The issue of Sinai being a source of hatred. Class Two: Page 309-310. This class discussed the idea that “Sinai” is…

Story of Adar 1 5772, and overview of this very important Ma’amar.  

(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…

Class one: Introduction: four events that revealed “Atzmus” (two opposites together) as preparation for Mattan Torah: A) Makas Bechoros “נגף למצרים ורפוא לישראל” B) Midday, Yetzios Mitzrayim “נגלה עליהם” C) Splitting of the sea: joining land and sea (עלמא דאתכסיא ועלמא דאתגליא) D) Mattan Torah itself. Class Two Inside, the children knew Him first because…

Class One. Three levels of Mesiras Nefesh: 1) מסירת נפש בכח- At Mattan Torah through נעשה ונשמע and כפה עליהם הר כגיגית. 2) מסירת נפש בפועל מצד הנשמה- at Chanuka, this sacrifice has an order. 3) מסירת נפש בפועל מצד הגוף- at Purim. This involves הפקר total abandon. This level of sacrifice is the necessary…

Class One: This class (the first of two on this Ma’amar) deals with the idea of: לא הי’ צריך להתחיל התורה אלא החודש הזה לכם, ומה טעם פתח בבראשית? משום כח מעשיו הגיד לעמו לתת להם נחלת גויים The Torah doesn’t bring בראשית just to defend a non-Jew’s onslaught, but because the world is where…

10 Shvat STORY (and preparation) (5780) Part One: Some history and some sense of the seriousness and awesomeness of the times and the date today.“Hiskashrus” is about us. Part Two:1) The change in the signature.2) Kuntres 10-13 Shvat 57093) Pan Klali, included with the group4) Motzoei Yom Kippur, late, guests5) Simchas Torah joy.6) מוועט ארויפגיין7)…

This is a Parshas Para Ma’amar. Why is Para Aduma Chu-kas HaTorah? The only one Shlomo can’t decipher and that Hashem must reveal to Moshe. Two levels: Level One: Chuka means the norm, the norm is Ratzoi VaShov, each Mitzvah is either Ratzoi or Shov. Para Aduma is both. Level Two: Chuka means Chakika (carved…

This standard מחצית השקל מאמר has a typical approach with a completely novel aspect: The typical: no one is whole without another, thus we give half and the other half comes from outside of us. The atypical aspect is that we are commanded to give the “higher” half of Shekel called שקל הקדש the lower…

Class One. This class explores the השכלה in this מאמר. The three worlds בריאה, יצירה, עשי’ה succeed each other, each later world, lower than the one above it. However to create the physical עשי’ה requires a strength above all the worlds, represented by the words: אף עשיתיו. He also discusses אצילות כממוצע או [ביתר דיוק]…