Classes

Toras Menachem – M’vorchim Sivan 5718 (02)

Class Two. Page 312-313. Numbers One, Two, and Three again and more completely explained. ניסן everything was from above; from their vantage point they “ran away” in their lack of preparedness. איי”ר the entire month is ספירה= בירור נפש הבהמית; it is also ר”ת אברהם יצחק יעקב רחל but even that is only the מרכבה…

Toras Menachem – Purim 5716 (02) – Sicha Three (02)

Class Two. Page 135-7. Torah development, in later times much more details, more incumbent on the individual, Thus the Printing Press and later Offset were introduced to facilitate this greater learning of Torah that became more quantitative, rather than more qualitative as in earlier times.  

Toras Menachem – Shabbos Tisa – Shushan Purim Katan 5717 (02) – Sicha One (02)

Class Two. Page 98-99. If materialism is unimportant because one never loses sight of the purpose and goal, then he is always rich. דעת רחב- שמח בחלקו

Toras Menachem – Purim 5716 (01) – Sicha Three (01)

Class One. Page 133-5. Why we don’t commemorate the holocaust as we do earlier (and smaller) tragedies. The idea of greater and smaller souls.  

Toras Menachem – 20 Kislev 5717 (01) – Sicha Six (01)

Class One. Page 278-9. Proof from Niglah for learning Chassidus. Our Rabbeiim would show their Niglah so it would lead others to Chassidus. It is one Torah.

Toras Menachem – Shabbos Tisa – Shushan Purim Katan 5717 (01) – Sicha One (01)

Class One. Page 97-8. טוב לב משתה תמיד. Two connected ideas: A)דעה רחבה B)שמח בחלקו. The Rebbe explains the connection between them by introducing the discussion on מרובים צרכי עמך (בשביל) שדעתם קצרה.

Toras Menachem – Simchas Torah 5716 (09) – Sicha Three (03)

Class Nine. Page 139-141. The Rebbe argues that this level of Bittul is at least achievable on the level of action through Kabalas Ol Malchus Shamayim.

Toras Menachem – Simchas Torah 5716 (08) – Sicha Three (02)

Class Eight. Page 137-9. This idea is compared to the concept of תענוג הבד הוא תענוג האדון ממש, the total subservience of the slave to the master, that his master’s pleasure becomes the slave’s pleasure. The Rebbe goes on to say, that since this Ma’amar reached us, this means that we have some possibility to…

Toras Menachem – Simchas Torah 5716 (07) – Sicha Three (01)

Class Seven. Page 137. Yehoshua during Moshe’s lifetime was like Moshe, this incredible anomaly is what made Yehoshua a נער in the favorable sense.  

Toras Menachem – Simchas Torah 5716 (06) – Sicha Two (03)

Class Six. Page 135-6. These changes have to do with Simchas Torah that these things add to the great Joy etc. of the time. The greatest revelations happen then.