31. Vayedaber Elokim 5735This Ma’amar explains the idea of pre and post Mattan Torah Yiddishkeit; before- ריחות (like a fleeting good smell), after- שמו תורק שמך כמריק מכלי אל כלי (having the actual bottle of perfume and the substance -permanence- of the Torah). This is juxtaposed against (and answers many questions) on two Pesukim: 1)...

Vayishma Yisro 5737, Class One.Introduction, this Ma’amar is based on a Ma’amar in the Hemshech Ayin Bais (בשעה שהקדימו תער”ב) that was just printed (in 1977) וישמע יתרו העת”ר.This Ma’amar deals ONLY with the beginning and the end of that Ma’amar.We learned the middle of this Ma’amar that is based on the very famous ZOhar,...

Vayedaber Elokim 5737 (This is the First of two Shavuos Ma’amarim).This typical Maamar asks typical questions, but provides a unique answer. (Based on ויגדלו הנערים העת”ר).1) There’s advantage in saying words of מקרא, תורה שבכתב without understanding anything over learning and understanding other parts of Torah thoroughly; because you are saying G-d’s words and He...

Vayedaber Elokim 5737 (This is the Second of two Shavuos Ma’amarim, said the Shabbos after Shavuos).את כל הדברים האלה includes all the future Torah including the disputes all coming from G-d who is all about unityלאמור that when we learn HE learns with us just as it was when He gave it: באימא ביראה ברתת...

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...

Bisha’a Shehikdimu 5738(The first of a two part Hemshech connected to Shavuos 5738)The days leading up to Shavuos great things happened.A) Rosh Chodesh, 1) Three is the number of Torah 2) ביום הזה revelation 3) מדבר סיני the challenge and the opportunity, 4) ויחן שם ישראל כאי אחד בלב אחדB) 5 Sivan the Geirus and...

Vayedaber Hashem 5738 (a Shavuos Ma’amar) Class One. This is the second part of the Hemshech.In this Ma’amar the idea of לאמור is continued from the precious Ma’amar, but a different idea is introduced: that it is critical to speak Torah with one’s mouth, because it brings from the highest high to the lowest low.אנכי...

This is a Ma’amar Basi Ligani from 15 Shvat 5739 (it is the third in the “Hemshech” Basi Ligani from 5739.) All three Ma’amarim explain the 9th chapter of Basi Ligani 5710. (Class One) This class explains the two ideas attached to the Possuk ועשית קרשים למשכן עצי שטים עומדים explaining עומדים in two ways:...

There are two מזבחות: 1) מזבח אדמה which is a reference to involvement in direct holiness, תורה ומצוות which is why it is a certainty. 2) מזבח אבנים which is a reference to the involvement in Klipa, and it is therefore written as a condition “If” one (needs) to involve himself in correcting this involvement,...

Why was Mattan Torah with so much fan fair and noise? The idea is that Mattan Torah reveals ‘Atzmus’ that breaks ‘The decree that separates the higher from the lower’. The ‘noise’ affects Bittul which is (in a way) the Keli to receive ‘Atzmus’ The Class discusses the change that is affected by the fact...

Yisro’s presence was necessary for the giving of the Torah. He represents the darkness that needs elevating, transforming and revealing the Godliness in to it and from within it. The event of Maatan Torah was all about a higher level, revealing the Godliness from, and in and through darkness. This maamar also follows the earlier...

This is a post Shavuos Maamar. The sounds, flairs and sounds of the Shofar are Chesed, Gevura Tiferes. As Hashem gives them they are from the top down and we apply them from the bottom up. How the Shofar “that is narrow at one end and wide at the other end” can apply “from the...