Classes

15 Tammuz Hayom Yom

Class One: Is it possible for someone to join Gashmiyus and Ruchniyus to such an extent that their spiritual lives should affect their physical bodies? Reb Nochum Tchernubiler was fat from saying אמן יהא שמי’ רבה. We compared it to one who is תורתו אומנתו שמלאכתו נעשית (בגשמיות כפשוטו) ע”י אחרים. ) Class Two: Stories…

Perek 7, class 3 (77) Tanya (text based)

Mutar things are redeemable, Assur things aren’t. There are two ways Issur is redeemed A. after Moshiach comes and Hashem removes the evil totally, like the idea of הכל חוזרין לעפרן רגע קודם התחי’ה. The Rebbe’s idea that this can be realized through ונפשי כעפר לכל תהי’ה

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.

Perek 7, class 2 (76) Tanya (text based)

Klipas Noga goes down when one indulges with lust. The explanation of נבל ברשות התורה. Correction by using לשם שמים is like the קרבן עולה is returning to Hashem. The idea of מותר is untied and of אסור is tied down.

17. Ki Tisa/ Shekalim 5739

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…

17. Vayedaber Elokim 5738

Vayedaber Elokim 5738 Class One.This Ma’amar goes through three points in the process of Galus to geula.Point One: In Galus.We should see and celebrate all the good we see (especially now at the end of Galus) but we aren’t.There is darkness but it is His will, the truth of it is for Geula.As Hashem says…

Perek 7, class 1 (75) Tanya (text based)

Klipas Noga, is Klipa, but is closer to Kedusha and is affected by כונה (intent), in contrast to קליפות טמאות ורעות that are evil no matter how lofty the כונה. There are three possibilities with קליפת נוגה A. It can remain גוגה if there is neither a good nor a bad כונה B. It can…

Perek 6, Class 8 Perek 7, Class 1 (74). Tanya (text based)

End of Perek 6, Beginning of Perek 7. The beginning of all קליפה is ראשית גויים עמלק, but that is complicated by garments of complexity and “good”. In Asiya there are these two lowest levels: 1) The severe (altogether) evil Klipos that are three: רוח סערה wind, ענן גדול great cloud, אש מתלקחת fire. Two…

Perek 6, Class 7 (73). Tanya (text based)

Klipa (continued). From fine to gross. The story of the Mitteler Rebbe, the name of קליפה may change but he is the same thing. 1) נחש הקדמוני and 2) מלאך המות and 3) יצר הרע and 4) שטן and 5) יש and 6) הרגש היש are really all the same thing. The idea of נסיונות…

16 Tammuz Hayom Yom

The Baal Shem Tov was a נסתר. He was forced to reveal himself. He was a באהעלפער for a מלמד and loved the children His brother in law ר’ גרשון קיטיווער.