32. The Takana of learning RaMbaM. The Takana of learning RaMaBaM. The story and anecdote.

His Demand: The Order of the day in the Mitteler Rebbe’s generation was to be steeped in the study of Elokus to the point of mesiras Nefesh: there was nothing else.

Class Eighteen. The GR”A passes away, setting the stage for the arrest. Hirsh Ben Baruch, wrote Shavuos time 5558. The ‘Vulfer’.

Class Seventeen. Introduction to the Alter Rebbe’s arrest. The Vilner Gaon’s passing, Sukkos 5658. Hirsh Ben Baruch; the first arrest looked worse but the second one was in fact worse.

Class Sixteen. The Tanya. This class (begins) explores the history of the Tanya, and its four stages: 1) Yechidus, 2) Ma’amarim, 3) Manuscript, ‘kuntreisim, 4) The printed Tanya. This class has some detail on Yechidus.

12A. 12a. The story of Ufaratzta from the Sichos. [Click Here] From 1 Tamuz 5718 onward the Rebbe pushed Chabad Chassidim forward using this slogan and theme, these are the Sichos that reveal the happenings back then. Sixty years later we learned these Sichos you can listen by clicking above.

14. Years 5722-5726. Years 5722-6: 1) 150 years of the Alter Rebbe’s histalkus, 2) His mothers passing and the introduction of the RaShi Sichos, 3) Tzemach tzedek’s 100th Yahrtzeit and the printing of his Chassidus etc.

12. Yad HaChamisha. The Story of Kfar Chabad, the massacre in the Bais Sefer Limlacha, Yad HaChamisha and the sending of the Shluchim (Bochurim) that summer, 5716.

Class Eight. 28) The story of the Cantonists, The Mitteler Rebbe left this test to his son in law. The story of the Cantonists. The lotteries, the “Choppers”, the “Chevra Techiyas HaMeisim”. They will die Ba’alei Teshuva. Their Mesiras Nefesh. What the Tzemach Tzedek gave them.