Letter Klali Prati- 5 Rashei Teivos (abbreviations) for Elul: Torah, Tefilla, Tzedaka, Teshuva and Geula. We do Teshuva in these areas [using these tools to help us succeed].

Ufaratzta from the Sichos Class One. Toras Menachem vol. 23 page 117-18, 130, 142-6, 150-1. Ma’amar, Sicha about how there are two opposites in Ufaratzta: finitude and infinity together. Kfar Chabad and more all in the spirit of Ufaratzta. Ufaratzta from the Sichos Class Two. Ufaratzta from the Sichos Class Three.

Page 26-8. How to behave before and during and after the trip.

Page 29-31. Questions and answers, in part on בית שמאי ובית הלל and the idea that both are correct, אלו ואלו דברי אלקים חיים and still והוי’ עמו הלכה כבית הלל.

Class One. Page 45-6. כרע שכב כארי וכלביא מי יקימנו We are -in Golus- laying and no one can raise us but even then we are a lion. מי Hashem Himself will raise us. Class Two. Page 46-8. Miracles always occur but once in a while they are so blatant as to smash the concealment…

Class Three. Page 48-50. The birth of a Rabbinic “דברי קבלה” holiday takes time to determine if the people can handle the new גזירה. Examples of Chanuka and even of Purim. This will (of course) tie into 12 Tamuz. Class Four. Page 50-52. The same happened 12 Tamuz it took a year to establish it…

The Zohar compares אברהם to the first of the עשרת הדברות which corresponds to all רמ”ח מצות עשה. This theme is consistent with the idea of לאתקנא רזא דשמי’ה to bring more light into the vessels of אצילות and to expand the vessels. This is the meaning of ואגדלה שמיך- of Hashem! It is achieved…

The two motions of Avrohom: from far to close and afterwards from close to far to achieve his purpose.

Lech Lecha is double. In Chassidus this alludes to movement up and down. This is Torah vs. Mitzvos and Tefilla.

Lech Lecha includes both movements: up and down. In this version of this classic Maamar, the Rebbe argues that from this first Possuk of the Parsha it is indicative that we can (and therefore must) do both together.