קדש ישראל להוי’ה is Yidden in the good times, when they are on the level of קדש, the fourth level חכמה, השתלשלות. כל אוכליו יאשמו is Yidden in Galus with all kinds of challenge that reveals the fifth level: אשם שהוא וחומשו חמשה the financial aspect of the אשם (the fine) is a quarter on…

The difference between Yosef and his brothers (and -even- the Avos) highlights the reason why the בני גד ובני ראובן wanted land east of the Yarden to be pastoralists. This was due to their worldliness עובדי הוי’ בגופם which required them to choose a life far from the material world, as opposed to their brethren…

This Ma’amar explains that the Torah is an eternal practical lesson and in that spirit the 42 journeys are explained. The life of the person and the day of the person have 42 journeys from leaving the exile and constraint of the womb and the bed until one reaches the highest levels. Each higher level…

Class One. Sleep is an analogy for Galus. Everything is functioning but there is confusion, no limit, order, division. In this Ma’amar the Rebbe explains (the Frierdike Rebbe’s Ma’amar from 5700), in this way: When there is Shina (sleep) the kochos go back into the Etzem where they are on a higher level. It is…

נחמו is said twice for the two בתי מקדש though the first one was greater and should include whatever they lost in the second one; but the second one’s ירידה is greater and the נחמה is for the ירידה and the ultimate עלי’ה that will follow based on the principle that what falls lower rises…

This מאמר explains the ברכות of Bentching: 1) Why even in the מדבר they thought of the future לחם מן הארץ. 2) Why even after the מן stopped we continue saying הזן את הכל. 3) The meaning of the last ברכה that even the ירידה into גלות is part of what we are thankful for…

Class One. All the people from the city join the people in the field because by going out into the field, when the King returns to the city they go not only into the city but into the palace itself. Class Two. The desert and the people there are certainly also allowed to come into…

The basis for this מאמר is the ש”ך על התורה’s idea that it refers to the gates on the body of the person. There are two ideas what the gates are. 1) All seven are in the face and head. 2) The gates are in the entire body. The Rebbe wonders what is the reason…

Class One. The first half of this Mugadiker Ma’amar addresses the idea of ‘Shvachim’ (praise or flattery) we give to Hashem to arouse Him to give us (K’vayachol) and how this was reflected in the Tanaim who flattered RaShBI. What is unique to the Rebbe’s version of the Ma’amar is that he explains that the…

This מאמר discuses the Bracha and thanksgiving associated with divine blessing especially in Eretz Yisroel. However, the darker the period prior to the entry into Eretz Yisroel the more uplifted is the blessing of Eretz Yisroel.