Class One.   Class Two.   Class Three.

Class One. All Yomim Tovim celebrate material victories and are therefore celebrated through physical means: meat and wine etc. Chanuka was an attack on our Neshama, as they left the Beis HaMikdash intact etc. It is therefore celebrated through Hallel and candles. When a Yid has darkness he digs deeper and reveals higher levels of…

עמדת להם בעת צרתם means that He stood up for Us in our time of need, Because He reacts to us: when we stand up he stands. And… we stand when there are צרות. Standing means מוח שליט על הלב the mind and (what is above the mind) the eyes [that can see G-dliness] are…

This Ma’amar on the Haftorah of Parshas Shemos. The Alter Rebbe says that the word הבאים at the beginning of this Possuk is the same as הבאים in the beginning of פרשת שמות. He brings the Alter Rebbe’s explanation that this is about ירידה צורך עלי’ה and that this is achieved through מצוות which are…

This מאמר explores two levels: 1) וארא אל אברהם… ושמי הוי’ לא נודעתי להם 2) וארא אל אברהם… לכן אמור לבני ישראל אני הוי’ה Two ideas exist here. The first is when things are good but limited, one is not Zoche to אני הוי’ה. The second is in Galus where Hashem helps in extraordinary ways…

Story of Adar 1 5772, and overview of this very important Ma’amar.  

Class One There are two ideas in קרשים למשכן עצי שטים עומדים in as much as the word עמודים is concerned. The first one (the beginning of the Perek) is in the word עמודים connecting heaven and earth with no change whatsoever; that exactly what is above is below. The explanation is from the idea…

Class Eighty Five. This first class of the מאמר ר’ ברכי’ פתח תרמ”ג included the questions in פרק א and the (beginning of the) answers in פרק י”ח. This is the רבי רש”ב’s דירה בתחתונים. הניח מה שלמעלה בשביל מה שלמטה The question is why? The answer is דירה בתחתונים where opposites come together (in…

Class Eighty Six. The idea of דירה בתחתונים continued. Only in this world is there תשובה because there are sparks of תוהו. If and when they are released, they join together סובב with ממלא. This can not happen in the worlds of תיקון, which have “room” only for ממלא. This is the Rebbe RaShaB’s דירה…