חסידות וסדר Class Five. Examples of Seder. ישר יחזו פנימו חטוף ואכול וחטוף ואשתי הוא גם כן “סוג” של סדר.

חסידות וסדר Class Four. סדר Though what Chassidus is, is infinite; but we are finite. For us order is very necessary. Without order our ability to benefit from Chassidus which is עיגולים בלי ראש וסוף is curtailed.

חסידות וסדר Class Three חסידות is נעוץ תחילתן בסופן וסופן בתחילתן and עיגולים מבלי אשר ימצא ראש וסוף. Three explanations: 1) שמן has three characteristics: A. cannot be eaten alone and is found in everything, B. שמן מפעפע בכולו C. שמן צף על כל משקין. Chassidus is as available and as illusive as שמן and…

Parshas Zachor – Purim Amalek fought the yidden at Refidim (weakness in Torah). he wants to cool off the awe that the nations had for the Yidden.Amalek wants to cool off our enthusiasm for Torah.

Class Two. The need for Hisbonenus, is in all areas of knowledge, even in Nigla, but much more so in Chassidus because it is meta-physics, that you cannot touch, so you need real work and thought (איבערטראכטן) for the idea to be understood correctly (to get past the משל to the נמשל). The three stages…

Hayom Yom 7 Menachem Av, Class One.The story of the last two sections of the Tanya, Igeres HaKodesh and Kuntres Acharon, in brief.This class contains a treasure trove of stories about the Alter Rebbe’s early years and the development of the Tanya including information about the role of his children in publishing the Tanya.  Why…

Hayom Yom 7 Menachem Av, Class Two.This class has a long introduction dealing with the time (14 Kislev).The second Iggeres HaKodseh Katonti in the Sunday of Vayishlach cannot be ignored.The idea of שמינית שבשמינית and the fact that this Possuk is the eighth Possuk in the eighth Parsha.

Class One: Is it possible for someone to join Gashmiyus and Ruchniyus to such an extent that their spiritual lives should affect their physical bodies? Reb Nochum Tchernubiler was fat from saying אמן יהא שמי’ רבה. We compared it to one who is תורתו אומנתו שמלאכתו נעשית (בגשמיות כפשוטו) ע”י אחרים. )