Vishinantum Livanecha 5738 Part One. This part of the Ma’amar explores the idea of 15 Menachem , the Aliya is proportionate to the yerida. 1) Pesach- Tzadik 2) Tishrei- Teshuva but step by step 3) 15 Menachem- Teshuva in an instant; at the moment of the Churban itself maximum Gilui. Notes: 0:00 – 1:00 Story – The Priest who wore Tefillin 1:00 – 6:07 Maamar of Vaeschanan – This is a maamar within a maamar, the topic is the first and second parsha of kriyas shema. The Rebbe addresses the question -> In the text, why is the order first Torah and then Mitzvos, and in the second case Mitzvos and then Torah? The Rebbe is going to explain that the second parsha of Kriyas Shema is higher than the first. This goes against what we commonly learn and the Rebbe turns this on its head on this maamar. The Rebbe originally said the maamar on a Thursday night fabrengen before Shabbos Vayeschanan in the year Tes Zayin Menachem. This recording will cover perek beis, gimmel, and daled. The second class will be perek alef and the second half. 6:10 – 16:06 Start learning inside. Analysis of the months in which aliyah comes after yerida 16: 07 – 21:45 Tishrei is different – the letters are backwards – the work of Tishrei is also teshuva but it is in orderly gradual steps which means it has some kind of limitation compared to the teshuva of Av which comes “in an instant” after a large yerida of 9Av. 21:47 – 26:12 How can you say “in an instant” when there are 6 days between 9Av and the determination that dying in the Midbar had actually ended (it stopped on 9AV but they waited to see if it would hold). On 9AV there was an event of teshuva and on the same instant there is the lowest low, there is the highest high. The great darkness of that moment is connected to the beginning of the arrival of Moshiach. 26:14 – 36:05 Continuing inside (5 lines into page Shin Tzadik): Baalei Teshuva go through a process but there is a moment when a critical shift takes place which has nothing to do with seder. There are no greater Yomim Tovim than Chamisha Asar b’Av not even Yom Kippur. The reconnection after a deep disconnection is the greatest aliyah. 9Av is the maximum yeridah and therefore Chamisha Asar b’Av is the maximum aliyah. 36:06 – 42:30 Continuing inside (bottom of page Shin Tzadik): The principal is applied – there is no waste, nothing is done for no reason. The depth of the descent is applied to the intensity of the rise. The neshama and the guf are sustained by the neshama in food and the guf lives from the guf in food. These lower spiritual and physical aspects are what sustains the higher human neshama and guf – because these aspects come from a lower fall of sparks which can in turn sustain something higher. 42:33 – 45:56 Continuing inside (page Shin Tzadik Alef 2nd paragraph, 4th line): God forbid that we would say Hashem is punishing of giving revenge. So what is galus if we earned it through our own sin – if it is not a punishment? The Rebbe says, it is correcting a lower wrong so we can raise the sparks much higher. Since there is no garbage can – nothing is wasted – the low fall itself is the source of the rise. 45:56 – Summary and Intro to the 2nd Half (link)
Vishinantum Livabecha 5738 Part One.
Vishinantum Livanecha 5738 Part Two. Summary: A deeper descent leads to a higher ascent afterwards. Discussion of Mitzvos versus Torah what is higher? 0:00 – 5:28 Intro summary and review of the above from class 1. 5:28 – 13:16 Reading inside – start at the beginning of the maamar on page. shin peh vav “V’shinantum l’fonecha b’dibartabam” plus story of Rav Hadakov asking a shaalah to Reb Zalmon Shimon to illustrate the point that knowledge of Torah should be so deep and complete that answers can be given without hesitation. The point is this is like “V’shinantum” where there is a “crispness” in the knowledge that it can be applied and given over effortlessly. 13:16 Reading inside “b’oseh ha rega – 2nd line on page shin peh tes. Perek Hei “V’hinei”. 16:33 Reading inside page shin tzadik beis – middle of the paragraph – see the word “mitzvos” which is circled. Physical action of mitzvos 17:36 Rebbe on the nature of the brain “The more you use it the more it stretches. But the brain is in a physical case so it cannot expand more than the size of the skull. So the brain wrinkles and makes folds. This is the asiyah of yediyas Hashem” See footnote 969 – vort from the Frierdike Rebbe but Rabbi Paltiel heard it from The Rebbe. 18:06 – 19:29 Reading inside 19:30 Summarize and Clarify the key point of the maamar regarding Chamisha Asar v’Av. We are tying it into the idea of Torah before Mitzvos or Mitzvos before Torah. 19:59 Reading inside “V’hinei” – Learning Torah or Mitzvos – which is greater? Machlokes between Rabbi Akiva and Rav Tarfon presented including their reasoning. 22:41 Reading inside last line on the page – page shin tzadik beis – How can they both be right? 22:50 Top of page shin tzadik gimmel “Cannot be frum if you don’t know Torah. Cannot do anything if you don’t know”. 25:48 – 26:40 Student point and response on the wait for Moshaich related to the discussion 26:41 – 29:43 continuing to conclusion “You have to first learn the Torah which brings a person to do Mitzvos” 29:43 Connects to an inyan in Kabbalah in the next 8 lines (which are also mentioned earlier in the maamar)** 34:08 Reading inside “The same is true when it comes to learning Torah and doing Mitzvos…” 35:32 The Rebbe says “This is the pshat”…. 39:08 Story from Reb Meir Itkin (Rabbi Paltiel collected from him when they sat together at a family event) 45:38 The Rebbe is telling us the nikuda of the maamar… 47:40 Reading inside to the end from the top of the page shin tzadik hei
