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…

Class One: This Hayom Yom is based on a (rather famous) exchange between the Previous Rebbe and Our Rebbe about the question of מתן תורה in America. In this letter the Previous Rebbe separates two ideas: 1) In מקיף, the Torah was given to the entire globe as one, 2) In פנימי what is closer…

Class One: Review of what the Hayom Yom (as a whole) is (due to long break).

Class Two: Rabbi Simpson, America, seeing the Rebbe. What one Tomim can do in a place void of other efforts. This is his entire purpose.

Class Three: In our generation being Mikarev someone else is the beginning of Chassidus!

Hayom Yom 4 Menachem Av, Class Two.This class provides a second, more direct, interpretation of the comments on parnassa in this entry*.  We have only what Hashem decides we’ll have.Discussion: Parnassa is decided at Rosh HaShanah with two aspects: 1. overall amount and 2. nuanced aspects of how the overall parnassa will come to fruition…

Hayom Yom 4 Menachem Av, Class One.Chinuch.This is not in the entry of the Hayom Yom, but it is in the letter which is the source of this entry.We must appreciate that (especially by Yidden) the material and the spiritual are connected, and therefore to concern oneself with Parnassa at the expense of the chinuch…

Class One Parnassa is from heaven we must “only” make the Keli. 1) It should be enough 2) and for good things.

Class Two Parnassa continued. 1) Some make no Keli in Parnassa at all, like יוסף הצדיק, נחום איש גמזו, ר’ אלעזר בר’ שמעון. 2) The rest of us make a Keli in Teva and we need balance in this: we are making the Keli, but the blessing is from Hashem.