12 Tamuz 5719 Toras Menachem vol. 26 page 69 ff. Class One: 1) The day and Yomtov of 12 Tamuz. 2) Beginning of the Farbrengen of Shabbos 12 Tamuz 5719. 3) Rebbe RaShaB’s “ווארט” said to his son the Rebbe RaYatz in Rostov on front of what would later be the building of the KGB…

Yishmael’s Bris was rational and that is a liability compared with Yitzchok’s super-rational bond. It is the basis of the Jewish people and that they are a miraculous people attached to Hashem higher than reason, from infancy.

The Rebbe RaYaTz Bris; the end of the week long celebration of his Bar Mitzvah, the story with Rabbi Moshe Feller and the Farbrengen of 19 Tamuz 5728. The RaZa’s birthday.

Bris Mila is two things: 1) a Mitzva, 2) A covenant. In as much as it is a Mitzva, what we do today is separate from what the Avos did, but in as much as it is a Covenant, we continue to bring our children into the Covenant of Avrohom Avinu.

Avrorhom’s life divided into two: before and after the Bris. Before he was doing Judaism (like a brick) afterwards he was Jew, a representative of God on this earth (like a stone which is natural and not like a brick which is artificial).