Basi Ligani (15 Shvat) 5738.PDF of the Ma’amar. Basi Ligani (15 Shvat) 5738, Class One.This is the inverse to the Ma’amar of the 10 Shvat Basi Ligani, as it is about Torah and Har Sinai rather than about Dira BiTachtonim (building the Beis HaMikdash).The idea of Mattan Torah and Torah gives the Koach for all…

Rosh Hashana is all about Tzimtzum! This Ma’amr that followed the Yud Shvat (5745) chidush of Tzimtzumim explains, that the reason for a head (of a year) is so the light can be brought lower and lower and lower, so that the Yid down here can achieve Achdus with Hashem through Avoda.

Arbaa Rashei Shanim Heim 5731.Rabbi Paltiel presents a ma’amar of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Tu B’Shvat that discusses the concept of the “New Year for Trees” in both Halacha and Chassidus (source: Melukat, Vol.5, p.169). This shiur was presented in Shevat 5768 (January 2008) at the… Women’s and Girls’ Beis Midrash and Seminary for Higher…

15 SHVAT short thoughts, (5771). TU BISHVAT (5776/2016).Some thoughts. 1) Roots, 2) Tree, 3) Fruit, the point is to remain connected, exist, give to others- fruit. 2) what fruit are for [to procreate, the cycle of life; or] to feed man- the linear direction, everything is going upwards towards God. 15 Shvat 5780, Man’s comparison…

Chamisha Asar (15) B’Shevat – A Letter to Mr. Bezbaradka (5764)In this TuB’Shvat talk, Rabbi Paltiel discusses a letter written by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to a personal friend named Bez Baradka (a scientist) on the occasion of Tu B’Shvat. The letter was written in 1944 (before Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson became Rebbe) and is published…