This Ma’amar explores that Machatzis HaShekel has a message ‘klali’, we are a half and the other half is our schar- connection to Hashem. Three steps: 1) Bittul until Mesiras Nefesh as is indicated in the idea of 1) Ze Yitnu, giving with no constraint, 2) a half 2) Above the bittul is the ‘ten’…

Class One. Two types of war (that are Mitzvah) 1) to conquer, 2) to destroy. These are the wars of 1) the seven nations, 2) Amalaik. Class Two. The war with Amalaik is destroy, as they are the essence of evil. The idea that everything must be for Hashem’s honor. How is destroying Amalaik in…

The idea of Avoda before the original sin of eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and what was added afterward. All of Yiddishkeit is about ‘Dira BiTachtonim’. This is the idea behind ‘Zos Chukas HaTorah’ as well as ‘Zos Chukas HaPesach’.

The Creation, Hashem’s choice in creation, Hashem’s choice in His people. Nature, Miracles in nature, Miracles that are higher than nature. The interplay between nature and the supernatural, What this means in Avodah.

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. The Ma’amar also discusses…

(This Ma’amar is a continuation to the previous Ma’amar). Yidden’s Koach to receive the Giluy of Atzmus they get from Mitzvos after Mattan Torah from being Hashem’s children, especially after sinning and doing Teshuva.

Class One. This class exposes the fact that the Rebbe is basing this Ma’amar on the Ma’amar of the Previous Rebbe, yet he takes it in an entirely different direction, making this Ma’amar quite original. The conflicting Midrashim: Does the sea need the Jew or the Jew need the sea, is explained by the Previous…

This Ma’amar explores the Torah Chadasha of Moshiach, two ideas: 1) The reason for Torah Chadasha is that if the world is new and the Yidden are new, then there must be a new Torah as well. 2) It can only happen through Moshiach, who is a Yid, a Neshama, who is higher than the…

Rabi, who wrote the Mishna as a reaction to Golus teaches, that when one can choose he should choose Derech Havaya, order and not disorder, even if the disorder is infinite and the order is finite. The two examples of infinite are 1) Teshuva, but this involves sin, no one is allowed to sin (even)…

The world was perfect at creation and becomes more perfect through work: Dira BiTachtonim.