This Ma’amar said by the Rebbe on his fiftieth birthday deals with the idea of this Possuk which is added at the beginning of the Amida and appears to interrupt the סמיכות גאולה לתפילה. The Gemara explains it using the logic of תפילה אריכתה. The Ma’amar explains that תפילה אריכתא means much more than an...

עם זו יצרתי The word זה can only really refer to Hashem Himself, because in everything He is the true substance of it. However, the word זה is also used for G-Dliness because of its דביקות, attachedness to Him. To be sure קליפה is also called (occasionally) זה לעומת זה, because it only exists to...

Bayom Ashtei Asar Yom 5731 PDF Bayom Ashtei Asar Yom 5731, Class One.This class includes Perek 1, 10, 11, 12, 13 of the Ma’amar.The questions are raised (in the beginning) and resolved (in the end). Which comes first, Yidden’s choosing Hashem? or Hashem’s choosing Yidden? and the answer… His choosing Yidden allows Yidden to choose...

23. Vihigadeta LiVincha 5735 (Ma’amar 1 of Hemshech of 2 Ma’amarim).The Rebbe said 2 Ma’amarim (one on Shabbos 10 Nissan, and one on Sunday 11 Nissan) with the same title (דיבור המתחיל), and the same basic design. This is the first of these two.The key idea in (both) these Ma’amarim is that בנך means the...

24. Vihigadeta LiVincha 5735 (Ma’amar 2nd of Hemshech of 2 Ma’amarim).The Rebbe said 2 Ma’amarim (one on Shabbos 10 Nissan, and one on Sunday 11 Nissan) with the same title (דיבור המתחיל), and the same basic design. This is the second of these two.The key idea in (both) these Ma’amarim is that בנך means the...

26. Kol Dodi 5736 (1) Shabbos HaGadolThis Ma’amar explains the ‘need’ for Hashem to ‘jump’ and get us out of Mitzrayim after 210 years, because we made our situation much worse (ירידה גדולה ביותר למטה ממה שהי’ צריך להיות) that we wouldn’t have survived [and would have been many MORE years than the original 400],...

28. Vinacha 5736, Acharon Shel Pesach (Third of a Hemshech)This Ma’amar addresses the issue of the ‘leap’ (מדלג על ההרים מקפץ על הגבעות) discussed in thge previous two (pre-Pesach) Ma’amarim (on the Possuk (קול דודי הנה זה בא מדלג… ומקפץ) as it relates to Moshiach’s coming. But here, when He leaps when Moshoach comes, we...

Vikacha Tochlu Oso 5737 (this is a 11 Nissan/ Pesach Ma’amar), Class One.This is the first of two Ma’amarim in a Hemshech.The idea of Chipozon (haste) will spiritually hold through until Moshiach.The idea of Chipazon is in Schechina, Yisroel, Mitzrayim.But it begins with Yidden and from there to Schechina and Mitzrayim.Chipazon is seen in each...

Kimei Tzaisecha 5737 (Acharon Shel Pesach, cont. Hemshech from 11 Nissan) Class One.This Ma’amar (the second of two parts of a Hemshech based on the וככה תרל”ז) discusses how Liasid will be different than what was by Yetzias Mitzrayim,The Ma’amar begins (however) by pointing out that even after Moshiach comes (and there’s Bekias HaNahar) we...

Ki Yishalcha 5738 (Class One)This first class (on this most complex of Ma’amarim) is the heart (center or Biur) of the Ma’amar as a whole. [Chapters 4-7].The three levels of עדות חוקים משפטים are explored here.In Pshat the oreder should be משפטים חוקים עדותBut here the Possuk orders them differently: עדות חוקים משפטים and the...

A י”א ניסן Ma’amar. Class One .The בן חכם knows what עדות חוקים ומשפטים are. He is questioning the אשר ציוה ה’ אלוקינו אתכם the constant in all three categories is that Hashem must command us to do the עדות חוקים ומשפטים because we would do none of them on our own. In other words...

A י”א ניסן מאמר Class One. Introduction: to explain the timelessness of Yetzias Mitzrayim. Why we keep referring to Yetzias Mitzrayim throughout all of Galuyos, This is understood by focusing on the Ruchniyus of Yiddishkeit as a priority over the Gashmiyus. The spiritual process of mind to heart provides for a daily need for going...

Tefilla LiDovid 5747. This Kapital was the Rebbe’s from 11 NISSAN 5747-5748. The Rebbe’s maamar explores the very heart of the Kapital: it is 86 which corresponds to the divine name Elokim. The Maamar adresses 3 levels of Elokim and how each is sweetened by Havaya. It concludes with the notion of the sweetening of...

(A 11 Nissan Ma’amar). Class One. The first half of this Ma’amar explains the idea that we continue to leave Mitzrayim in space and in time (as we journey through our history and move from place to place) until Moshiach comes. He explores the highest source of Mitzrayim in the highest levels of Lifnai HaTzimtzum,...

Ki Yishalcha Bincha 5744. The Ben Chochom already knows Aidus Chukim and Mishpatim, what is bothering him is, why our Yiddishkeit is different than the Avos and is connected to action. The answer is that ‘Avadim haYinu’-, the challenges in Mitzrayim raised us up to the level of being able to elevate physical things also....