Parshas Teruma: Mishkan and Mikdash (Yeshiva 5780)Why the two words, two levels, Schechina (manifest) and Kedusha (hovering), משכן דאקרי מקדש ומקדש דאקרי משכןWhy is Moshe’s house called (primarily) Schechina and the subsequent houses are called (primarily) Mikdash.Several explanations. משכן is lowerמשכן is more permanent (He goes into Galus גלות השכינה) while קדושה departs (קוב”ה סליק…

Vikibel Hayehudim 5738 Class One. This class encompasses almost all of the Ma’amar.The idea is that Purim, (one of our lowest points in history,) could be higher and be the conclusion (קיום) of what started at Har Sinai, (the highest point in our history.) The ideas of 1) Personal work (rather than from above) and…

Short Version Introduction:Farbrengen Short Version Part One: Six words: 1) Derech 2) Torah 3) Aidus, 4) Pikudim, 5) Chukim, 6) Mitzvos Short Version Part Two: Last six words: 7) Mishpatim, 8) Tzedaka, 9) Devarim, 10) Amiros, 11) Orach, 12) Niflaos Kapital 119 (5780/ 2020) Class One.176 Pesukim, longest Parsha (Nasso) longest Kapital Tehillim (119) and…

18-01. Parshas Yisro, (Yeshiva 5780) without Yisro there is no Torah!The Zohar says Yisro’s coming and conceding, needed to happen before Sinai. What makes this outstanding is the fact that Mattan Torah at Sinai is considered a unilateral event, yet Yisro’s concession is a pre-requisite to the giving of Torah.Pharoah, Bila’am and Yisro.So smart, from…

Bishalach, tests of faith and the three gifts, (Yeshiva 5780/ 2020).Yidden leave Mitzrayim and keep complaining in light of great miracles. The point (of course) is that in spite of the miracles there are real tests here, as they are moving very rapidly towards being His servants and they find the pace reason enough to…

Seventy Years (5780/ 2020):1) a lifetime.2) נכנס יין יצא סוד. Both יין and סוד are both בגימטריא 70.The idea of a secret and revealing it; the joy of wine that comes with a meal that makes you Joyous and not drunk.3) This means that after 70 years the secret comes out (ןע”ד דברי הרבי בארבעים…

PDF For Hayom Yom 26-28 Tamuz Hayom Yom 26 Tamuz.The difference between learning and Davening.Learning: getting (G-dliness) as one can get.Davening: surrendering to Him as He is beyond us.The example of Geula Shlaima vs Yetzias Mitzrayim.

Beshalach Exile and Redemption (130) Text: The Maamar Machar Chodesh 5711 Sweetening bitter with bitter The two opinions how the waters at Mara were sweetened whether through light or bitterness itself.The deeper idea is transforming bitterness to sweetness using bitterness itself.

Va’aira, is about “Knowing Hashem” (Yeshiva 5780).1) The Makkos aren’t (by any means) just to get us out of Egypt, there are much easier ways to accomplish that.They are to educate Yidden, the Mitzriim and the entire world about Havaya (G-d above nature).The miracles in the Parsha are there for all of history, as far…

Parshas Shmos 03-01. Making a leader, Hashem’s patience (Yeshiva Achei Temimim 5780/ 2020).Moshe is meant to be leader, but he doesn’t want to be. Hashem shows unbelievable patience with him, as he tries to get out of the job time and again.Five times he resists, but his role is predetermined, only Moshe can take the…