This Ma’amar is based entirely on the beginning and end of the same Ma’amar from 100 years before: 5644. What is added with words VaHashem Barach Es Avrohom Bakol over the first half of the Possuk. ViAvrohom Zakain deals with overcoming tests, and VaHashem Bairach…, means that there will be no more tests.

Class One. Sara had two gifts for Avoda 1) Chyin Ilain, 2) Her life was hers (as she earned it). How can this Zohar be reconciled with Rashi that interprets the words to mean that all her years were equal. Class Two. The Rebbe explains that the two ideas of 1) ‘Her life is her…

Class One. There are four ideas: the Avoda of the slaves of the Avos, the Torah of the slaves of the Avos, the Avoda of the Children and the Torah of the children. The slave comes first so that the children will follow and exceed them. Class Two. Why is this lesson learned in conjunction…

ViAvrohom Zakein and Ba Bayamim. This was said before (40 years earlier about both Avrohom and Sara) and it is repeated here; as there are levels in Ba BaYamim, the first being finite and the second being infinite. The numbers 40 and 90 are explored here.

M”A and BA”N their unity is the point of Avoda for all creation.

The purchase of the field and cave for Sara’s burial is called ‘Kima’ (it rose up) and it is repeated twice. This class explores the significance of this, ending with a Sicha that reveals the depth of the separation of the former owner from this land, even as a former owner.

Rivka’s jug of water. what is the mystical significance of it? The jug that Rivka carried down into the well and the way it is described in the pesukim, RaDaK, Rabbeinu bechayey, Ralbag, Abarbanel, Yonasan, Rogetchiver and Tzemach Tzedek. This jug is the twenty four sefarim of the Torah that Rivka goes down towards to…

Part one. Part two.

The dramatic story of the Rebbe Rashab’s passing on 2 NISSAN 5680.

This class (or Farbrengen) explores the unique contribution of the Rebbe RaShaB to the philosophy of Chassidus ChaBaD. His orderly style and his resolving contradictions and streamlining of the language make his Ma’amarim far more learn-able than the Ma’amarim before him. Two ideas: 1) ‘Tun (working to understand, clarify and correct: which only a Rebbe…