This Ma’amar discusses the idea of one being a seminal point which matures when it develops all ten aspects. It interprets the word בעשור (as opposed to בעשירי) as meaning all ten, meaning, that each later day includes all the preceding ones until ten. Ten is the completion of one’s personal wholeness; of קשוט עצמך….

Class One. This class deals with Perek 11 of the Previous Rebbe’s Ma’amar באתי לגני. The discussion centers around the עבודה of יראה, קבלת עול and מסירת נפש of the צבאות השם. When the King faces a מלחמת נצחון his מדת הנצח is aroused and he pulls out all the stops: Engaging in the war…

There are two מזבחות: 1) מזבח אדמה which is a reference to involvement in direct holiness, תורה ומצוות which is why it is a certainty. 2) מזבח אבנים which is a reference to the involvement in Klipa, and it is therefor written as a condition “If” one (needs) to involve himself in correcting this involvement,…

Class One. Introduction: The classic idea of this Possuk, that we do משפטים like חוקים rather than the other way around, because the משפטים are also from סיני. The Rebbe added in תשנ”ב that the very idea of משפטים where ideas of morality צדק ויושר are logical is a special gift from Hashem to bring…

Class One. The three תרומות in Avoda are: 1) 1) Torah, 2) Mesiras Nefesh (tefilla), 3) Mitzvos. This is connected to the עין יפה בינונית ורעה א’ ממ’ א’ מנו”ן וא’ מסמ”ך. 2) How in Torah itself there is 1) Torah, 2) The source of Mesiras Nefesh (Tefilla), 3) the source of Mitzvos. This second…

This is the מאמר given to us in Adar 5752, with which we live our lives; it is the מאמר of התקשרות Click here for a folder-full of classes and versions of classes on this מאמר. Below is a חזרה of this מאמר and below that a class on the בלתי מוגה (unedited version) of…

Class One. This class is a brief חזרה of the מאמר רבי רש”ב from תרע”ח: There’s good חן and bad חן. Unearned חן is שקר החן and it was בדורו של משה before the Torah was given. Earned חן is very good, it is like אתעדל”ע שלמעלה מן אתעדל”ת אתעדל”ע or it is the level…

Moshe gathers the Jews and speaks first of Shabbos and then of the Mishkan; which is the opposite of how Hashem inspired him, where Shabbos was last. The Rebbe explains that these Pesukim are describing Hakhail; where the first step is Shabbos: Bittul followed by bringing Hashem into each aspect of life: The Bais HaMikdash.

כי תשא means raising Yidden up in Teshuva, lifting in a way that is infinitely higher than before (even above the head). It must be done through Moshe. תרומה להו’ה means lifting from the bottom up, Teshuva, תרומת הוי’ה is bringing the infinity of the בעל תשובה into the finitude of the צדיק because he…

Class One. There are a few different themes among the many מאמרי זכור. This one is about the idea of דרך. Why is the עמלק attack linked to these two clues: 1) on the דרך; and 2) after leaving מצרים. Answers: 1) In מצרים, they were out of עמלק’s reach because: A. there they had…