Classes

Toras Menachem – 10 Shvat 5716 (12) – Sicha Eight (01)

Class Twelve. Page 66. Women of this generation are a gilgul of the generation that left Egypt. They have an extra Yom Tov because they refused to participate in the sins, but joyously donated before the men to the Mishkan.  

Toras Menachem – Shavuous 5716 (07) – Ninth Sicha (01)

Class Seven. Page 351-2 Women, Neshei Chabad, new time new ideas. The incredible power (for good and bad) of women.  

Toras Menachem – 10 Shvat 5716 (11) – Sicha Six (03)

Class Eleven. Page 61- 3. Even when the Rabbeiim were materially self sufficient, the idea of taking and being enriched from the Chassidim was important for the sake of the bond.

Toras Menachem – 10 Shvat 5716 (10) – Sicha Six (02)

Class Ten. Page 60-1. Even when the Rabbeiim needed no one for gashmiyus support they were the לית לי’ מגרמי’ כלום who needed to be enriched by their Chassidim. This created the connection between the Rebbe and the Chassidim.  

Toras Menachem – 10 Shvat 5716 (09) – Sicha Six (01)

Class nine. Page 60. Introduction, When we give to the Rebbe we get rich, it is really the Rebbe’s own that we are giving him. Story of the Alter Rebbe about this idea.  

Toras Menachem – 10 Shvat 5716 (08) – Sicha Five (04)

Class Eight. Page 58- 60. Giving to קרן תורה with צניעות to break another American קליפה.

Toras Menachem – 10 Shvat 5716 (07) – Sicha Five (03)

Class Seven. Page 56- 8. 1) Learning Torah, Yidden with beards especially. 2) The idea of Tochacha even when not appreciated until the point of being hit.  

Toras Menachem – Purim 5718 (08)

Class Eight. Page 132-3. Yom Kippur is also above דעת as represented by the גורל which means מסירת נפש there also but it has some “hold” on reason- the fact that we do it by separation from worldly things. Purim we had the same מסירת נפש (not for a day but for eleven months) and…

Toras Menachem – Purim 5718 (07)

Class Seven. Page 131-2. There are things in Yiddishkeit that happen only without דעת and he gives the two examples: 1) שכחה cannot be done with intent. 2) Becoming a נשי”א must happen to a בורח מן הכבוד so it cannot be intentional. עד דלא ידע is above the no דעת of these also, as…

Toras Menachem – Purim 5718 (06)

Class Six. Page 130-131. Why and in what ways is the Joy of Purim higher than the Joy of all of Adar; and why it must be to the point of עד דלא ידע.