Continued Perek 5. More on the advantage of Torah over Mitzvos as Torah is both “food” and a garment. But there are two ideas in this itself: A) as it brings the person closer to Hashem ולשמה היינו לקשר נפשו ודעתו בהוי’ה B) It fulfills the divine purpose לשם התורה עצמה as will be explained…

This class deals with end of perek 5.

Review of last week. The idea of מקיף ומוקף in the שכל of תורה and on a higher level, in the אלקות of תורה. In exploring this we visited the idea of תורה being מזון וגם לבוש. Two ideas in מזון: A)You become (one with) it. B) It (the Torah) becomes one with you, it…

The word Tfisa bothers us. Because having Atzmus through Mitzvos is Him draping us and not the other way around. He introduces the answer by discussing ideas, that they are simultaneously holding the ideas and the ideas are holding them. He will argue that Torah (as opposed to Mitzvos) are “Makif AND Mukaf”.

The Tanya was printed in stages. The אגרת התשובה appeared in the very second edition of the Tanya but in the earlier draft (מהדורא קמא). The final draft of this letter wouldn’t appear until almost ten years later.

Supporting Torah’s greatest reward is our own Nachas.

This מאמר explores two levels: 1) וארא אל אברהם… ושמי הוי’ לא נודעתי להם 2) וארא אל אברהם… לכן אמור לבני ישראל אני הוי’ה Two ideas exist here. The first is when things are good but limited, one is not Zoche to אני הוי’ה. The second is in Galus where Hashem helps in extraordinary ways…

This Ma’amar on the Haftorah of Parshas Shemos. The Alter Rebbe says that the word הבאים at the beginning of this Possuk is the same as הבאים in the beginning of פרשת שמות. He brings the Alter Rebbe’s explanation that this is about ירידה צורך עלי’ה and that this is achieved through מצוות which are…

עמדת להם בעת צרתם means that He stood up for Us in our time of need, Because He reacts to us: when we stand up he stands. And… we stand when there are צרות. Standing means מוח שליט על הלב the mind and (what is above the mind) the eyes [that can see G-dliness] are…

Toras Menachem vol 22 pp 316-317 The lesson from counting- nothing and no one is insignificant; each is a whole number. What to do about this lesson.