הודו להוי’ קראו בשמו Class Nineteen, Class One.Introduction to (the new class, for new school year on) Siddur and Overview of HoduThis class begins with an overview of the daily journey through davening. Previous classes covered from Modeh Ani through the first two thirds of Hodu. The class overviews the “ladder prayer”: why the sections…

Likutei Sichos vol. 11 page 08 ff. Moshe proposes that Moshiach redeem the Jews from Egypt rather than him, but Hashem tells him that now is his time, and Moshiach will use the Torah Moshe received to correct the world altogether.

Introduction to new year. Individual righteous people and a holy nation.

Likutei Sichos vol. 36 page 7 ff. What is the answer to Moshe’s question: What merit entitles the Jews to be redemption? Answer: the waiting and anticipating that was already actual in Egypt.

קדיש Class Forty Seven. Continued from class 46. The Shalom here is culminating the Davening or Learning. Chayim Tovim means life rooted in (absolute) goodness.

קדיש Class Forty Six. Peace, in this sentence יהא שלמא רבה, means culminating the Davening or Learning, so it shouldn’t spill over hysterically. Two versions: A) 12 expressions of peace, against the 12 שבטים. B) 2 expressions (our version.) If you know detail you must use it, but if you don’t, generalization has a great…

קדיש Class Forty Five. Continued from 44. The peace at the end of עבודה and the peace as we go into the world. The two opinions of this sentence (יהא שלמא רבה) has only two ideas (שלמא רבה and חיים טובים) or twelve ideas as found in אבודרהם and many (נוסח ספרד סידורים).

קדיש Class Forty Four. שלמא רבה and עושה שלום both speak of שלום peace. But (notwithstanding the צלותא דאברהם) both are necessary. One is the peace after the struggle in תורה עבודה or גמילות חסדים The other (as explained in the רמ”ק) is the peace needed to go out into the world. The רמ”ק explains…

Class one: Introduction: four events that revealed “Atzmus” (two opposites together) as preparation for Mattan Torah: A) Makas Bechoros “נגף למצרים ורפוא לישראל” B) Midday, Yetzios Mitzrayim “נגלה עליהם” C) Splitting of the sea: joining land and sea (עלמא דאתכסיא ועלמא דאתגליא) D) Mattan Torah itself. Class Two Inside, the children knew Him first because…

קדיש Class Forty Three. The end of Kaddish is really about Hashem. יתגדל ויתקדש שמי’ רבה was originally said by simple people and then became a staple of our Tefilla. These two last lines deal primarily with peace. According to the צלותא דאברהם, the idea of שלמא רבה מן שמייא isn’t about peace but a…