קטרת Introduction. Each day we say three things: A) קרבן תמיד B) הרמת והוצאת הדשן C) קטרת. Only קטרת includes Torah SheBiksav and SheBa’al Peh. The controversy about saying it before Davening. We say it three times a day, once before, and again after Shacharis, and again before Mincha. The Zohar says to say it…

רבון העולמים Class Two. Examining relative נוסחאות. A) How Hashem is addressed: רבון העולמים or רבון כל העולמים or רבונו של עולם, a personal G-d or the Creator of all. Also, is this paragraph only a prayer or a praise and a prayer? B) The mention of קטרת first appears in the Chassidic נוסחאות, why…

אתה הוא… prayer introducing קטרת part two. This class has some repetition because of the Pesach break. In this paragraph the key word is לפניך underscoring the essence quality of קטרת. However it must be drawn down from אתה הוא into הוי’ אלוקינו ואלוקי אבותינו.

אנא בכח Version two. אנא בכח Class One. Introduction, this is שם מ”ב which is a name of גבורה or ascent, like קדיש. When one goes from one world to another he says קדיש. And on occasion this is replaced by אנא בכח. Some connect it to creation and place it before ברוך שאמר for…

רבון העולמים Class Three. The class began with reading the most unusual version of ר’ יעקב עמדין. The class as a whole explores the Alter Rebbe’s Nusach. This class explores one and a half lines of the text of the AR’s Nusach. The most important “big idea” is the RaMaK’s explaining להקריב קרבן התמיד as…

פרשת התמיד Class Six. PDF, this is for all the classes that will follow where we read the text inside, most of the ideas are culled from these sources. This class finally begins the reading of the paragraph inside. The word אמר has three meanings: 1) to speak softly’ 2) to favor like האמרת האמירך,…

פרשת התמיד Class Two. This class was a lecture on the idea of קרבנות based on the רמב”ם and the רמב”ן. We talked about how the רמב”ם can be explained in spite of the fact that קרבנות predates idol worship. The point of the class was to divide this paragraph into two parts: A) Something…

פרשת התמיד Class Eight. We learned the fifth Possuk of this paragraph and touched on the sixth Possuk. We started with a long introduction about: 1) Ratzo Vashov, using Korach and Tzitzis as the model 2) We quoted the Maamar Chazal that says that Krias Shma without tefillin is like a Korban without a Mincha…

1) Sacrifice, 2) Bring closer, 3) Already close.

This is a Maamar from 9 kislev. This Korbanos Maamar made its way into the winter because it was a newly printed Sefer of the Mitteler Rebbe. The Maamar (in general) makes two points about a Korban: 1) to sacrifice and transform, 2) Uplift and bring close. The Rebbe proposes that these two also exist…