Classes

Toras Menachem vol. 20 page 95, 172 ff.

Class One. A letter for the opening of camp. To emerge as fruit of a (Hashem’s) garden.

Sicha One.

Class One. Page 108-110. 1) A year has all kinds of changes. 2) A thirty year cycle has all types of changes within changes. So we take stock of the last thirty years since these new strengths were gives to us and feel inadequate, but C”V not depressed. We are motivated like the Ba’al Teshuva…

Sicha Two.

Class Three. Page 111-113. At seventeen his father saw the Frierdiker Rebbe as fit to be a Rebbe. His qualifications to be Rebbe: 1) He inherited it. 2) His own personal greatness. 3) He and his father were one. The lesson for us: when one has so great a head, much more is expected from…

Sicha Three.

Class Five. Page 114. Beginning of the Sicha on Limudai Chol, understanding the Rabeiim’s incredible tolerance and acceptance. Even those whom the Torah advocates hating, we find a way to love based on the principle of יתמו חטאים ולא חוטאים. Class Six. Page 114-115. The love, though unconditional, brings them closer to the Torah rather…

Sicha Six.

Class Eleven. Page 131. Hiskashrus a Neshama matter (introduction to the Sicha). Class Twelve. Page 131-3. Hiskashrus should (therefore) be in all aspects of oneself.

Toras Menachem vol. 20 page 202-4.

Class. Not wearing the clothes one tears during Availus after the week of Shiva. We are Maikil in all dinim of Availus. Availus is also Teshuva and this we should be מחמיר about.

Toras Menachem vol. 21 p. 155-160.

Class One. Page 155. This class has a long introduction about the holy Ruzhiner whose Yahrtzeit is today. Yitzchok must be born, Yishmael is not enough. Why? Class Two. Page 156. Explaining the idea that Yiddishkeit is higher than reason at its core. It must be this way. Class Three. Page 156- 8. Continued. It’s…

Toras Menachem vol. 21 page 189-194.

Class One. Page 189-190. Yaakov and Eisav meet, is Eisav ready for the Geula? No! But Ya’akov readies himself from his end totally and doesn’t wait for anyone to catch up. Class Two. Page 192-3. Beginning of Sicha- comparing the Alter Rebbe and his friends to Yosef and his brothers. The point and purpose was…

Another version of this Sicha Beis Rabbeinu ShebiBavel (Beis Midrash Linashim 5775/ 2015)

Sefer HaSichos 5752 vol. 2 page 465 ff. a two part overview (semi-text based) on this remarkable Sicha. Class One. A) Two levels: every shul is a מקדש מעט, but there is one that represents the Beis Hamikdash ממש which is called בית רבינו שבבל. B) This shul is special as it is the place…

Beis Rabbeinu ShebiBavel (Beis Midrash Linashim 5773/ 2013)

Sefer HaSichos 5752 vol. 2 page 465 ff. a two part overview (semi-text based) on this remarkable Sicha. Class One. Beis Rabbeinu ShebiBavel entails two ideas, 1) every single Yeshiva and 2) the specific Yeshiva of Rabbeinu. It has many advantages over all the others, before, during and after the Geula. In fact on the…