The Tzohar (Window or precious stone) in Noach’s Taiva (ark) was far more than for light. IT opened a spiritual light 1) into the darkness and judgement that was the flood; 2) In our Avoda this is expanding the Tzara (narrowness) of Torah and Tefilla that is constrained in this world to Tzohar- becoming an…

There was no rainbow before the מבול as the air was too dense for clouds that would allow light through. The מבול refined the world so the clouds would allow light through in the form of a rainbow. The מאמר explains clouds first and then the rainbow: Clouds come from the earth and reflect the…

Various interpretations for the double allusion to Noach. 1) A soul in two worlds, 2) Two levels of reward, 3) The dual Avoda of Noach: two תיבות and two בא אל התיבה. He’s called Noach twice before he does anything.

Class One. 19 Kislev 5560, and the Alter Rebbe. The comparison between Chanuka and Yud Tes Kislev.

Class Nine. Page 290. Lechayim for Morocco new Mosdos. Binyamin Gorodetzky.

Class Four. Page 100. The famous מאמר וקבל היהודים רפ”ז was based on ד”ה כי תשא עטר”ת. There are parts of that מאמר that are not repeated in רפ”ז which the Rebbe said this Shabbos on the פסוק כי תישא תשי”ז.

Class Seven. Page 66-67. The Baal Shem Tov’s dvaikus and remaining in the body etc.

Class six. Page 59-60. Introduction about Reb Laib, the Rebbe’s brother on the occasion of 13 Iyar, his Yahrtzeit. Gan Yisroel- the “upside” of camp- what the gains are.

Class One. Page 38-9. Explaining the phrase קבלת התורה בשמחה ובפנימיות. Joy to overcome hardships. Pnimiyus to reach the essence of the Neshama. We meet אנכי הוי’ אלוקיך, the essence of G-dliness is our personal G-d.

The story of the six day war through the prism of the Rebbe. Mivtza Tefillin was introduced two days before the war. The Rebbe explained (by citing two Gemaros) that Tefillin 1) preserve the soldier, 2) Cause the enemy to be so afraid that he doesn’t fight in the first place. The מאמרים והי’ ביום…