V’Ata Tetzaveh Text Based 5778-2018 [Class 1] This class discusses the first question of the Ma’amar why it says Viatta Titzaveh, which is an unusual form. The answer is also given. It is about Moshe connecting Yidden to Hashem. This class includes chapter 11 where the Rebbe explains that the “Viyikchu Ailecha” enhances the Viatta Titzaveh.
Class 1
V’Ata Tetzaveh Text Based 5778-2018 [Class 2] This class discusses the second question of the מאמר which is ויקחו אליך. We read the answer from Chapter and Chapter 11. In the beginning ויקחו אליך is משה’s reward that is separate from what he does for us.
Class 2
V’Ata Tetzaveh Text Based 5778-2018 [Class 3] In this class two points were introduced: 1) that in each generation there is אתפשטותא דמשה בכל דרא ודרא a Moshe whose role it is to strengthen Jewish faith. 2) In certain times (as it was with Moshe himself as well as Mordechai) this Moshe (or Rebbe) has a revealed influence on the entire generation. The Rebbe makes the point that this was the case with the Previous Rebbe.
Class 3
V’Ata Tetzaveh Text Based 5778-2018 [Class 4] The Ma’amar explores three prototypes of “Rebbe” or “Moshe Rabbeinu”, this class deals with the first. We used text from Chapters 6, 10 and from footnote 56. Moshe was a Rebbe in the best of times, the Jewish people were living literally and figuratively in a cloud. Moshe’s influence challenged them to personalize their Jewishness and not be Jewish by “Clouds alone. This type of Rebbe has a deeper influence but it is not that high (revealing the מזל not the עצם, but in a transformative way
Class 4
V’Ata Tetzaveh Text Based 5778-2018 [Class 5] This class deals with the second prototype of “Rebbe” or “Moshe Rabbeinu”: Mordechai who led the Jewish people in their darkest hour, as they faced complete annihilation. For this class we used Chapters 3, 4, 10. The class explores the notion that Haman was after יהודים specifically, this means the righteous Jews who took a new identity that meant loyalty to G-d and not assimilation (as the word עברי had come to mean). For an entire year he aroused in them a readiness for Mesairas Nefesh and no one wavered! This “type” of Rebbe has a higher influence on his generation: revealing the עצם הנשמה or יחידה itself but it isn’t deep and doesn’t transform them as is evident to what happens to Jewish people who went from the Soviet Union to the West during the dark years.
Class 5
V’Ata Tetzaveh Text Based 5778-2018 [Class 6] In this class we begin the discussion of the third prototype of “Rebbe” or Moshe Rabbeinu, this is (the same) Mordechai after Haman was hanged and the 13th of Adar had come and gone. This class was from Chapter 9. Jews were now in a wonderful place both materially and spiritually, but it was גלות exile and he inspired in them an understanding that the best Galus is terrible and a desire to depart from this Galus that was to a degree of כתית a deep pain from the lack of divine revelation. The concept of יחידה has a new idea in this מאמר. The traditional idea was א איד נישט ער וויל נישט ער קאן ווערען אפגעריסען פון ג-טליכקייט a Jew neither wants to nor is able to be separated from Hashem. Here another idea is introduced: …גילוי אלקות נוגע לעצם מציאותו ועד… מזה עצמו [שאין גילוי אלקות] ער איז אינגאנצן צוטרייסלט the Jew need divine revelation all over the world equally to the extent that it’s absence crushes him!
Class 6
V’Ata Tetzaveh Text Based 5778-2018 [Class 7] This class continues the discussion of the third prototype of “Moshe” or Rebbe: This class we read from Chapter 10 and footnote 56. We explore the third “Moshe” as being both “high” (revealing the יחידה) and “deep” (being transforming, as it becomes one with person who is in this state of כתית למאור.
Class 7
V’Ata Tetzaveh Text Based 5778-2018 [Class 8] This class continues the discussion of the third prototype of “Moshe” or Rebbe: This class we read from Chapters 10-11. The person in the גלות של עשירות gives his כחות הגילויים to Moshe and the עצם הנשמה נעשה חד עם כחות הגילויים rather than a דבר נסוף על כחות הגילויים. Two levels in עצם הנשמה are introduced: 1) עצם הנפש כפי שהיא מוגדרת בגדר הפשיטות. 2) עצם הנפש כפי שהיא חד עם העצמות. The difference is whether the person becomes one with his עצם or is overwhelmed by it. This is connected to the idea of ויקחו אליך only when חסידים give themselves to the Rebbe’s work is this higher level realized.
