Classes

Toras Menachem – 10 Shevat 5714 (05)

Class Five. Page 34-5. This class includes about eight minutes (in the beginning) about 20 Teves, the RaMbaM’s Yahrtzeit. In Z’man HaGalus the level of Beis HaMikdash present by the Tzion of the Tzadik is higher than it was in Eretz Yisroel in Z’man HaBayis. Example, Prophecy nowadays is far rarer than in Z’man HaBayis…

Sicha – RaMbaM / Alter Rebbe / VaAira (18)

Likutei Sichos – Vol 26 p 26 ff The Tanya makes us the friends and acquiaintences of the Alter Rebbe. This brings to having ultimate knowledge of Hashem when Moshiach comes. Page 38-9.

Sicha – RaMbaM / Alter Rebbe / VaAira (17)

Likutei Sichos – Vol 26 p 26 ff The Tanya: how it also was written for everyone who the Alter Rebbe knew; and us also. Page 37-8.

Sicha – RaMbaM / Alter Rebbe / VaAira (16)

Likutei Sichos – Vol 26 p 26 ff The Vow of Reb Chayim Vital and the RaMbaM limit who can learn their sefer, but it also allows, Jews for whom this is life and death (spiritually) to learn despite their deficiencies and use the Sefer to achieve a state of deservedness. Page 36-7.

Sicha – RaMbaM / Alter Rebbe / VaAira (15)

Likutei Sichos – Vol 26 p 26 ff The same question can be applied to Torah as a whole: Torah has a correct way to be learned and the ChaZaL warn against learning it incorrectly. Yet in the Gemara itself it says that if one is not holding there he must learn Torah anyway, and…

Sicha – RaMbaM / Alter Rebbe / VaAira (14)

Likutei Sichos – Vol 26 p 26 ff The Rambam and the Rachav give warnings in the language of a Shvua (oath); what Reb Moshe Chagiz says about it [that it is a ban not an oath]; and (the beginning of) what the Rebbe says about it [that if they wished to make a ban…

Sicha – RaMbaM / Alter Rebbe / VaAira (13)

Likutei Sichos – Vol 26 p 26 ff The More’ Nivuchim was given with all kinds of constraints, and it is in fact available and learned by all. Why? Page 33-4.

Sicha – RaMbaM / Alter Rebbe / VaAira (12)

Likutei Sichos – Vol 26 p 26 ff The Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch and the More’ Nivuchim and the Tanya also reveal. The secrets are more revealed and they are also better understood. Page 32-3.

Sicha – RaMbaM / Alter Rebbe / VaAira (11)

Likutei Sichos – Vol 26 p 26 ff RaMbaM opened up the Torah to so many making what had been the vague realm of Torah SheBaal Peh like Torah SheBiksav, in terms of its clarity. Page 31-2.

Sicha – RaMbaM / Alter Rebbe / VaAira (10)

Likutei Sichos – Vol 26 p 26 ff Moshe comes to redeem the Jews from the spiritual exile, by showing them Godliness. Page 31.