(A Parshas HaChodesh Maamar). This Maamar explains the need to go through a lower step in order to reach a higher one. Creation is based on Tzimtzum, which can be (and is) in Avoda the idea of Chisaron (deficiency). First the Chisaron must be corrected and (only) then can the higher ideas come forward. This...

Class One. 1) Creation, 2) Choosing creation, 3) Fixing Rosh Chodesh and Rosh Hashana, 4) Choosing Yaakov and his son, 5) Fixing Rosh Chodesh of Geula, Why is Rosh Chodesh of geula at a different time and not joined with Rosh Hashana etc. Answer: it is higher than the entire phenomenon of Rosh Hashana. Why...

Class One. The Midrash discusses the idea of טובים השניים מן האחד by the communication of the first Mitzvah. Moshe and Aharon שושבינא דמלכא שושבינא דמטרוניתא. Physical vs. Spiritual Chometz. Torah is Bitul, Aharon is love, love cannot achieve the Bitul Torah can. [Therefore two anticipated in this first communication]. Class Two. Moshe and Aharon...

23. Vihigadeta LiVincha 5735 (Ma’amar 1 of Hemshech of 2 Ma’amarim).The Rebbe said 2 Ma’amarim (one on Shabbos 10 Nissan, and one on Sunday 11 Nissan) with the same title (דיבור המתחיל), and the same basic design. This is the first of these two.The key idea in (both) these Ma’amarim is that בנך means the...

24. Vihigadeta LiVincha 5735 (Ma’amar 2nd of Hemshech of 2 Ma’amarim).The Rebbe said 2 Ma’amarim (one on Shabbos 10 Nissan, and one on Sunday 11 Nissan) with the same title (דיבור המתחיל), and the same basic design. This is the second of these two.The key idea in (both) these Ma’amarim is that בנך means the...

25. Hachodesh 5736 (this is a Parshas Hachodesh Ma’amar) 2nd Ma’amar in Hemshech.This Ma’amar is a direct Hemshech (serial) to the one before.In the last Ma’amar we celebrated nature and how it holds Atzmus (לא שניתי manifesting in לא ישבותו and חדשים כיום הבראם); in this one we celebrate miracles and change (חידוש). Miracles move...

Hachodesh (1) 5737, Class One.This class has two parts.In the first part we attempted to explain four levels: 1) Yichuda Tata’a, 2) Yichud Yichuda Ila’a and Yichuda Tata’a, 3) Yichuda Ila’a, 4) Havaya DilAila.In the second part we explained the idea of Rosh Chodesh in general: Yichud Yichuda I(la’a and Yichuda Tata’a; and Rosh Chodesh...

Hachodesh (2) 5737, This is a Parshas HaChodesh Ma’amar, Class One.The possuk is explored and explained. Bittul sets up the reneweal.Every Rosh Chodesh versus Rosh Chodesh Nissan, the idea of Rishon.Explanation of Rishon, the same everywhere and always. In this class an observation is made: in the last Ma’amar (HaChodesh (1)) the Rebbe quoted the...

Vikacha Tochlu Oso 5737 (this is a 11 Nissan/ Pesach Ma’amar), Class One.This is the first of two Ma’amarim in a Hemshech.The idea of Chipozon (haste) will spiritually hold through until Moshiach.The idea of Chipazon is in Schechina, Yisroel, Mitzrayim.But it begins with Yidden and from there to Schechina and Mitzrayim.Chipazon is seen in each...

(This is a Parshas HaChodesh Ma’amar). The story of creation must be a part of the Torah but why in the beginning? Why Rav Yitzchok asks this question? Three steps: A. The דינים וגבורות that allow to world to exist; B. The reversal of the צמצום so that what was in the מקום החלל before...

Why one would think the Torah should begin with החודש- which is the directly holy involvement of the צדיק, ישכר, תורה ותפילה but in the end the תורה begins with בראשית because in the connection of the תורה to the נותן התורה action, בעל תשובה, זבולן is actually primary.

This Ma’amar discusses the idea of one being a seminal point which matures when it develops all ten aspects. It interprets the word בעשור (as opposed to בעשירי) as meaning all ten, meaning, that each later day includes all the preceding ones until ten. Ten is the completion of one’s personal wholeness; of קשוט עצמך....

Class One: This class (the first of two on this Ma’amar) deals with the idea of: לא הי’ צריך להתחיל התורה אלא החודש הזה לכם, ומה טעם פתח בבראשית? משום כח מעשיו הגיד לעמו לתת להם נחלת גויים The Torah doesn’t bring בראשית just to defend a non-Jew’s onslaught, but because the world is where...

This מאמר is a המשך to the one before. It develops the same three ideas based on 1) creation per se 2) The newness associated with Mattan Torah after Galus Mitzrayim, This idea (dominates the מאמר) and is explained based on a מדרש and a זהר that both equate the giving of the Torah to...

(פרשת החודש) Class One. This class begins with a lengthy introduction about the Rebbe’s unique contribution to מאמרי חסידות. One of the Rebbe’s big new ideas is the idea of the אלקות of חושך וצמצום עצמו. This class explains the aforementioned idea by explaining why the Torah begins with (darkness) בראשית ברא אלוקים which must...

There are four levels: 1) World, where divisions of time are not real 2) When Hashem “Chose” His world. Adding this choice makes the world of value to Him, but He puts His essence into it so the value is real. 3) the (theoretical) idea that will (one day be) Ya’akov and his children. 4)...

בעשור לחודש ה’תשמ”ב. Based on a Ma’amar of the Tzemach Tzedek. The first three days separated קליפת נוגה from ג’ קליפות הטמאות לגמרי. The fourth day elevates קליפת נוגה in אתכפיא. Eating is אתהפכא.

The name Tzvaos in BY”A- an idea that originates with the Alter Rebbe and not from before. It refers to the idea that there is Godliness also in the lowest worlds. The meaning of the Tzivos Hashem in Chumash are the sparks the Jewish people took with them from Egypt, the Jews themselves are ‘Al...

Hachodesh 5743 (2). Is HaChodesh on Rosh Chodesh or the entire month? This Ma’amar explores the Possuk (from the haftorah of Tzav) Al Yishalel Chochom BiChochmaso… only BiZos Yishalel’. The idea is that one’s greatness is measured in how he affects what is lower than him. This refers to Chochma of Malchus, as it is...

Yetzias Mitzrayim is linked to midday and midnight. This is difficult to explain. Is it about light or darkness? and The answer is that it is about transformation.

This is a Ma’amar of Parshas Hachodesh. The Creation, Hashem’s choice in creation, Hashem’s choice in His people. Nature, Miracles in nature, Miracles that are higher than nature. The interplay between nature and the supernatural, What this means in Avodah.

This Maamar is based on the Maamar of Parshas Bo 5683, when our Rebbe came to his Rebbe (the RaYatz) for the first time. The Maamar said that Shabbos, would be repeated 27 years later as the Maamar Basi Ligani 5710 of the Previous Rebbe’s histalkus. On the occasion of the printing of this early...

This is a Parshas Hachodesh maamar. The two levels of the Chidush of Nissan 1) Rosh Chadashim 2) Rishon….. LiChodshei HaShana,correspond to 1) The miracles that are higher than nature, and 2) How these miracles merge with nature. This Maamar also explores the miracle of creation that comes before the New year of Nissan that...

This is a Shabbos HaGadol Maamar. BeAsor….. the zohar explains that this goes on Keser that must be brought down so that the Geula will come. This Maamar explains how this comes down in the Pesukim. This is also relevant for the Geula Shleima now.

The name Tzvakos in the lower worlds.

(A Parshas Hachodesh Maamar.) The world’s revelation vs. the revelation of the Torah. Class One Class Two

(A Parshas Hachodesh Maamar).

Hachodesh 5743. Class One. Three levels: 1) Nature, Elokim, everything changes and goes towards deterioration, 2) Havaya Lo Shanisi that affects that nature should remain unchanging. 3) Ness, the Miracle, the Havaya which is always new. The two levels of miracles are discussed in this Ma’amar in the contexts of: 1) Torah, 2) Tefila (Krias...

23. Hachodesh 5734 Parshas HaChodesh Ma’amar (Hemshech to previous Ma’amar).1) Regular Rosh Chodesh has two levels: יעקב- creation, and יוסף- for more.2) Before each Rosh Chodesh there’s the כי יפקד מושביך- the Bittul before that produces the Molad.3) Nissan is above all the months, both in it’s Rosh Chodesh (ונפקדת) and in it’s pre-Moled Bittul...