Class One: Entire entry. The greatness of the Alter Rebbe’s Chassidim. A Chossid wouldn’t complain but the Alter Rebbe asked him how are his affairs, so he told that he is doing very poorly financially and the Rebbe reprimanded him: You do ( and worry about) your job and allow G-d to do (and worry…

Hayom Yom 25 Tamuz, Class Two.The first idea is revisited, for a Yid, due to the G-dly Neshama there is a natural pull towards G-dliness and an “understanding” of the reality of the super-natural.And the second idea is given context, even in the “lowest” Jew this shows itself in the power not to be cut…

Hayom Yom 25 Tamuz, Class Three.The idea of the nature of the Yid, based on the inner (מהות) sense of Elokus discussed in the מאמר ואתה תצוה התשנ”ב is quite different and much more than “just” not allowing oneself to be cut off from Hashem.This idea of גילוי אלקות נוגע לעצם מציאותו that affects him…

Hayom Yom 6 Menachem Av, Class One.The Alter Rebbe returns from Petersburgh and recites a Ma’amar endorsing the advantage of intellect in effect acceding to his son and successor, the Mitteler Rebbe.

Hayom Yom 5 Menachem Av, Class One.Sur MeRa, Asei Tov, Bakesh Shalom, RadfaihuThe Ba’al Shem Tov’s commentary on this Possuk.This class 1 includes a reading of the text inside with translation.  Theanalysis in this introduction focuses on the necessary relationshipbetween a person and the physical world and the challenge of settingboundaries.First separate “evil” (materialism) from…

Class Two They went down “living”. The downside of being alive: in Sheol you still believe you are alive (right). The upside of being alive: you can still do Teshuva. Korach’s sons did right away in thought (and reemerged at the end of the forty years) According to the Gemara Korach is now saying משה…

Class Three: Farbrengen and the idea of a farbrengen.

Class Two: This is part two of the Hayom Yom about gravity. We discussed the ideas of עיגולים and יושר. We made the point that עיגולים is both קטנות and אין סוף. The earth is an עיגול and (we suggested) that it’s יושר, that there are people who walk upright on earth (Hayom Yom 13…