Each aspect of Avoda has the two requisite parts: A. He inspires (אתערותא דלעילא) B. We work. This is true in each of the following scenarios: 1) Before the original sin we had work, that He inspired. 2) After the giving of the Torah there was the building of the Mishkan. 3) After building the…

This מאמר on עמלק explains what עמלק does, he finds weak spots and affects that what is good should be weak enough for קליפה to take hold. He “cuts off the head at the nape (back) of the head”. He cannot fight פנים but he exploits all אחוריים. פנים של נר”נ ופנים של חי’ יחידה,…

1) The Rebbe wrote חי’ מושקא is גימטריא 470= ע”ת this means a generation. Tzadikim create their own time. 2) She felt other’s lives, especially those who sacrificed to do her husband’s bidding. 3) Her Brachos- no pre-conditions.

Class One. Why is the Jewish people’s coming to Egypt repeated twice? Answer: because the descent has two levels, one lower than the other and there are two levels of ascent. However, the second ascent won’t happen until Moshiach but we never the less include it in the Exodus account because what will happen is…

Man was created “in our form and our image” what could this possibly mean?

Class Four. Page 129-130. Simcha even for the imperfect because Hashem doesn’t throw anyone away. Example: Sicha of Purim 5751 ובכן אבוא אל המלך אשר לא כדת. Class Five. Page 130. Four categories of שמחה: A) עבדו את השם בשמחה. This Joy is (only) an aspect in the עבודה life of every Jew. B) מועדים…

This year marks 200 hundred years since the Alter Rebbe’s passing, this is our series of classes marking this milestone.   Class One. 24 Teves this year is 200 years since the Alter Rebbe’s histalkus. This is an introduction to a series of classes (and Sichos) in conjunction with the Alter Rebbe and what occurred…

Class One. 1) This Possuk (Acharei…) begins with love, the fear (which is supposed to come first, Tanya Ch. 41) is before this Possuk’s Avoda starts. 2) Walking from below to above is about one’s personal connection with Hashem as opposed to the formal connection through Torah and Mitzvos. 3) all the subsequent steps follow…

The Rebbe’s father’s kabbalistic insight into his own life, destiny and arrest with the Rebbe’s commentary on it.

A brief overview of him and his life.