21a. Ani Lidodi 5715, Class One. Introduction, what is davening? the ‘ladder’ of Davening, Modeh Ani, Pesukei DiZimra, Birchos Krias Shma, Shma and the Amida. 21b. Ani Lidodi 5715, Class Two. Chapter 4. (This is a difficult Shiur). This class explores an assertion made by the Rebbe that davening will never be Hasaga, it will...

Class One. The entire Ma’amar can be seen to discuss five ideas (levels) of Avodah. 1) Birurim through avodah without Torah and Mitzvos. 2) The Kavana of Mitzvos gets us Schhar (Mimalei) in Gan Eden. The Mitzvah itself acts as a garment to conduct the light. 3) The Bracha that goes along with the Mitzvah...

This Maamar is Muga. First Version (one class). Second Version (in Two Classes) 5780/ 2019 Class One: This class has a long introduction about this Ma’amar and the one from 5732. The question is: Is ודודי לי part of the Avoda of Elul or not? Each Ma’amar gives another answer. How is the King in...

אני לדודי ה’תשל”ב 1 מוגה Class One (beginning and the end): The advantage of Bittul and Kabbalas Ol above all else, which is represented in this Ma’amar in the idea that the people CHOSE TO GO OUT AND GREET THE KING IN THE FIELD. Class Two: The advantage of the.. 1) lower Yirah over the...

40. Ani Ledodi 5733.This Ma’amar Ani Ledodi addresses the issue of why the King is in the field ant not in the desert.The field is where the purpose is achieved; and the desert has it’s sparks elevated out of the desert. But the work and place is the “Field” not the desert. 40. Ani Ledodi...

43. Ani Lidodi 5734Elul includes working from the bottom up (A. taking stock, B. preparing (resolutions) for the new year) and from the top down (our preparation has a Divine reciprocation).These two break down into the four ideas of 1) סור מרע and 2) עשה טוב and 3) בקש שלום and 4) ורדפהו.The first two...

41. Ani Ledodi 5735 (1st Ma’amar)This Ma’amar (which was said Shabbos Mivorchim Elul 5735) focuses on the הרועה בשושנים.The Rebbe explains the reference to the roses by developing a discussion on the mystical meaning of Jewelry, that is secondary yet enhances and adds to the person (even his soul) in some ways more than what...

42. Ani Ledodi 5735 (2nd Ma’amar).This Ma’amar offers a very unusual version of the “King in the Field” analogy. The King is in the field always due to the fact that this is where His purpose is. נתאוה הקב”ה להיות יתברך דירה בתחתונים [and therefore עיקר שכינה בתחתונים היתה].The people come from the city; this...

46. Ani Lidodi 5736 (1st Ma’amar on this Possuk [and 1st part of Hemshech]).This little Ma’amar joins what is written in the classic Ma’amar Ani Lidodi with the Ma’amar Visamti Kadkod where additional detail is added to the analogy of the king in the field. The two ideas of אני לדודי ודודי לי and דודי...

Ani Lidodi 5737.This is a typical Aniu Lidodi with an atypical direction: the reason for the King going to the field is to give the strength to elevate the desert.To transform the desert which is less than Adam and reveal there the idea of Ein Sof which is higher than Adam. Melech (King) is the...

36 אני לדודי ה’תשל”ט This Ma’amar is quite typical for מאמרי אני לדודי. He says that only special people are in the field to greet the king, but after Teshuva everyone gets to greet the king in field. The grounding on the “King in the Field’ is Torah and Mitzvos behaviorally.

Class One. The basic idea of Elul, the king in the field: the super-rational bond between the King and the people of the field. Class Two. The people of the field and their work there. Different kinds of fields, some require more work and others require less work, and accordingly their way of life and...

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...

A) Elul is time of Teshuva. B) we get the strength for Teshuva from the 13 attributes of mercy: the King in the field. C) The King visits the field because each Jew is חלק אלוק ממעל ממש. D) In the City, Field, desert E) In the desert you find if you search there; the...

We feed Him and He feeds us. On the lower level He must feed us, but on the higher level we feed Him.

Elul is the heart, seeing the face of the king which gives so much and nothing at all. Why Ani Ledodi is connected to parshas Re’ei (seeing) and there is no Shoftim (judgement) in Likutei Torah of Elul.

This Maamar explains the idea of “Melech BaSade'” for those who haven’t sinned. Those who have are in the Midbar from where they find Hashem (uvikashtem Misham) and it is “tzorech aliya”.

This maamar explains that the two Maamarim ”Ani Ledodi” in Likutei Torah explain the revelation of the thirteen midos Harachamim in the order of “Klal Prat uKlal”.