Sunday Kolel Lecture - 7
"The Alter Rebbe's New Torah Script"
With Rabbi Tzviki Krasnjansky
Recorded live at The Torah Center ATL on January 8, 2023

The Alter Rebbe's New Torah Script - Rabbi Tzviki Krasnjansky

What does it mean when I see something certified DE on a product?
Stump the Rabbi - Rabbi Yoni Rappaport

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What Does It Mean When I See Something Certified DE On A Product?

When should a Bar Mitzvah boy get his first Aliyah?
Stump the Rabbi - Rabbi Shlomo Goldfarb

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When Should AÂ BarÂ MitzvahÂ boy Get His First Aliyah?

R' Nasan Maimon shares stories and chizuk in honor of the Baal HaTanya's yahtrzeit today.
24 of Teves 5783 / January 16, 2023

Yahrzeit of the Baal HaTanya: Stories and Chizuk

PART 2 - R' Nasan Maimon shares stories and chizuk in honor of the Baal HaTanya's yahtrzeit today.
24 of Teves 5783 / January 17, 2023 at Breslov Sharei Chesed

Yahrzeit of the Baal HaTanya: Stories and Chizuk - PART 2

Rabbi Kaufmann Tanya Chapter 18 Part 2

Two stories this week the first about a two Chassidim of the Alter Rebbe sharing a story about their rebbe and the second about the Rabbi of Lublin trying to get the Seer of Lubin to get his Chassidim to stop coming to him.

Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/the-rebbe-who-was-not-a-tzadik.

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The Rebbe Who Was Not A Tzadik

Chasidic Renaissance
Power and Controversy in the Teachings of the Chasidic Masters

In the aftermath of the devastation wrought by the Khmelnytsky pogroms of 1648-1649, Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov initiated a movement that breathed new life into the hearts of the Jewish masses. But the teachings of Chasidism were soon regarded with suspicion by other Jews, and this led to some bitter controversies. Our lesson will examine the writings of one of the central figures who lived through this unfortunate saga, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi. We will explore how he understood the causes and nature of this controversy, and how he guided his followers through it, until he finally saw the day when peace and reconciliation prevailed.

Great Debates in Jewish History - Lesson 5

The Public Menorah
Is All Publicity Good Publicity?

In the 1970s, when Chabad began erecting large Chanukah menorahs in public places, a number of Jewish organizations objected to this practice and filed lawsuits against it. This debate brought into sharp relief differing approaches within the Jewish community regarding how to preserve and express Jewish identity in the modern world. This lesson also confronts the question: In light of the Jewish historical experience as a "minority religion," should Jews advocate for a more secular society? Or, does an irreligious society actually pose the greater threat to our Jewishness, and to a civil society in general?

Great Debates in Jewish History - Lesson 6

𝐕𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍
𝐌𝐚’𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐢 𝐋’𝐆𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝟓𝟕𝟒𝟑
𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞

Part Three of this special series on Ma’amer Basi L’Gani 5743 (1983), entitled "BENEATH THE DARKNESS" is called “VIRTUAL REVOLUTION.” Seeking resolution to the faith conundrum of Evil's existence, a revolutionary idea on the virtual, yet real-time effect of Torah study is presented . 

The third class of the series (covering chapters five and six) on the Ma’amer continues to broadly address the primary theme in chapter 13 of the original Ma’amer Basi L’Gani (5710). For more details on this, see below.*

In this Episode we are introduced to a sacred Engagement Theory that provides a fresh perspective on Torah study’s impact. 

Here we will clarify how the conceptual engagement with evil-in-theory actuates a virtual revolution of our world’s natural order and literally neutralizes the forces of darkness to release a higher form of light!

The final terms of this remarkable mystical equation provide a deeply insightful solution to the baffling theological challenge made in the previous Episode.

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* The Ma’amarim of Basi L’Gani, are a collection of more than 40 uniquely themed Chassidic Discourses that were delivered by The Rebbe on, or in proximity to Yud Shvat, the Yartzeit-Hilulah of his predecessor Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneerson, between the years of 5711 and 5748 (1951 – 1988). 

All these ruminations were directly based on Ma’amer Basi L’Gani, 5710, which was released by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok on the eve of his terrestrial passing. This [original] Ma’amer is widely regarded as the Previous Rebbe’s Last Will and Testament, and our Rebbe used its themes as guiding lights for the unique mission of our Seventh Generation [of Chabad-Lubavitch] Chassidim.  

Kindred in containing many common concepts or ideas, each discourse incorporates a remarkably wide range of mystical Torah teachings and always radiates with multiple novel, fresh creative insights.     

The original rumination contains Twenty Chapters, and for nearly four decades, annually (in orderly successive fashion) the Rebbe would elaborate on themes found in a specific chapter, by delivering one or more Ma’amarim (formal dissertations of original Chassidic Teachings) almost always opening with the Midrashic words “Basi L’Gani.”

This year, 5783, we are – once again – focused on chapter thirteen. As such, the discourses of 5723 (1963) and 5743 (1983) are studied by the global Chasidic community during the Yud Shvat season.

VIRTUAL REVOLUTION

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Rabbi Mendel Kaplan is the Spiritual Leader and Executive Director of Chabad Flamingo in Thornhill, Ontario, serving one of Canada’s most dynamic Jewish communities. He also serves as Chaplain of the York Regional Police Service. He is an active member of Toronto’s Vaad HaRabbanim (Council of Orthodox Rabbis), and a voting member of the COR Kashruth Council of Canada’s executive rabbinical board. Rabbi Kaplan is featured regularly on many local television and radio shows. He is a sought after speaker, with hundreds of lectures on Chabad.org. He and his wife, Faygie, are blessed with eight children. Artistically endowed, the rabbi enjoys drawing, sketching and creating charcoal portraits.

As Chabad Chassidim, many of us were brought up by religious parents and lived in religious homes all our lives.
There are so many things we were taught and got accustomed to doing without knowing why. Maybe it’s because we didn’t ask. Or maybe we asked, but our parents and teachers didn’t know how to respond.
Sure we kept the mitzvos and still do because we have Kabalas Ol Malchus Shamayim. We know that taking upon ourselves the yoke of Heaven is rule #1. This is how we were raised, and we know that this is the way we will always live our lives.
The fact is that although it is essential to do things out of Kabalat Ol, how much more meaningful would it be if we understood why we live the way we do! How much easier would it be to teach others to live a Torah-true life! And how much more enthusiasm and genuine chayus would we be able to bring to our learning and performance of mitzovs!
Throughout every day questions arise about what, why and how we live as Jews, as Chassidim. Wouldn’t it be great to finally get some answers?
For example, we wake up every morning, put our hands together and say Modeh Ani. What is the deeper meaning behind the practice of saying Modeh Ani? And why do I say it with my hands together?
When we put on our Tefilin we wrap the straps outward while others wrap in an inward direction. Why?
We don’t eat Shalos Se’udos at the end of Shabbos, something all religions Jews do, well, religiously. Why?
We wave our hands over the Shabbos candles three times before covering our eyes and saying the brocha. Why?
For those who are anxious to quench their thirst for knowledge and meaningfulness, we have created this website. With the Aibersther’s help, we hope to provide a platform for asking and receiving answers to the questions that you have had in the past, and the ones you will be inspired to ask in the future.

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The Frierdiker Rebbe tells the following anecdote of a conversation between himself and his father, the Rebbe Rashab:
“When I was a small child, just beginning to speak, my father said to me: ‘Every question you have, you should ask me.’
When I grew a bit older, I asked my father: “Why, when we say Modeh Ani, must we place one hand against the other and bow our head?”
Father replied: “In truth, you should not be asking ‘why.’ But I did tell you to ask me all your questions.”
He then sent for the servant Reb Yosef Mordechai, a Jew of eighty years, and asked him: “How do you recite Modeh Ani in the morning?”
“I place one hand against the other and bow my head,” answered Reb Yosef Mordechai.
“Why do you do so?” asked my father.
“I don’t know. When I was a small child, that’s what I was taught.”
“You see,” said Father to me. “He does it so because his father taught him so. And so on back until Moshe Rabbeinu, and until Avraham Avinu. One should do without asking ‘why.’”
“I’m just a little boy,” I said in my defense.
“We’re all ‘little,’” Father replied. “And when we get older, we first begin to understand that we’re little.”

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Rabbi Nasan Maimon holds rabbinic ordination from the Central Breslov Yeshiva of Meah Shaarim, Jerusalem. He is the son-in-law of Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld z"l, a prominent Breslov scholar and teacher. Rabbi Maimon was born in New York City and immigrated to Israel in 1987. There he was appointed executive director of the Breslov World Center and the English-speaker's kollel of the Central Breslov Yeshiva. In 2008 he founded www.BreslovTorah.com to reach students worldwide via digital media. He and his family live in Jerusalem.

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