True self-sacrifice is when what G-d is asking of you it makes no sense at all. And yet, you do it anyway

”Such is what awaits he who serves G-d!”

So too, EVERY Jew, ultimately, internally, wants what they want but for the sake of G-d

However, when denied the revelation of the Internal Faculties are denied to us, that the joy of the Encompassing Power becomes infinitely superior!

What happens when you plow with a kosher and a non-kosher together?

What happens when G-d commands us to do a mitzvah with a mixture of two "kosher" fabrics?

The difference is whether we are breeding a forbidden ultimate union, a forbidden external union, or are drawing G-d's glory and splendor in the world!

Nevertheless, Man's primary expression of 'essence' is within his Emotions. Hence, "Man IS a tree"

Hence, spiritually, speaking even for when one is culpable for his own situation, nevertheless, the situation demands of everyone, even those in the High Court in the Holy Temple, to go out and bring the victim the spiritual sustenance he needs to overcome his situation!

What Bribery does G-d accept?

Learn the power of charity and of repentance and how they work for sinners.

We need but to request the experience of total self-abnegation

Rashi teaches us, that in order to be purified, or to help others be purified, before G-d, one must remove his virtuous spiritual garments of honor and glory.

Rather, one must enter into the Holy of Holies of his soul, which can only be entered into via the simplicity of being “ordinary”.

That is how the essence of Yom Kippur works

Because the Rebbe wants us to taste Moshiach here and now!

More than this, it is permissible to eat "chametz" at the "Meal of Moshiach" which starts on Passover, if the meal extended, and one is now in his Passover meal, after dark! Amazingly, when this person who ate chametz after dark, during his final Passover meal, he will then reciter in his Grace After Meal, the Passover prayer, proclaiming it to still be, "On this day of Passover!"

And this is the taste of Moshiach, using who we are, including our ego, but to serve G-d!

Important Correction: In my article and audio, I mistakenly listed the law of, "A man who sees two discharges" together with that of, "A man who sees one discharge," who needs only to have one clean day, and then go to the mikveh that night. This is incorrect. A man who sees two discharges" needs seven clean days, before he can go to the mikveh and become pure. However, unlike A man who sees three discharges" he does not need to bring the offerings in the Holy Temple in order to become pure.

The soul had descended from the heights of spirituality, in the depths of physicality, where it becomes distant from G-d, so to speak. However, by the Brit Milah, when the Jew performs the, "My covenant shall be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant," and the physical embodiment is no more a separation for the soul, the two, "half of a body," unite complete the Supernal Marriage between G-d (Groom) and Israel (wife).

Mazal Tov! "Kvater..."

*For females at birth

Why?!

Because only the good merit G-d's love, in offering them to cleanse any hidden evil, which hidden evil expresses itself only in one's external faculty of speech, in words, while not evil, yet not carefully measured.

However, those with revealed evil, who do not work diligently to correct and refine their inner-self, are not offered this external reminder from G-d, for how can impure tzara'as be noticeable in impure skin....

Listen to how the Rebbe weaves through the last two Mishnayos of all 360 Mishnayos, finding the depths of the siyum of studying and living 360 Mishnayos

A) Is the 'Kohain Gadol’s Offering' primarily a Communal Offering or an Individual Offering? Which leads to…

[A2) Do we need a special phrase in the verse to teach us that this offer is ‘Tamid - Continuous,’ or not?]

B) In the interim, between a death, and then appointment, of a Kohain Gadol, is the offering brought from the inheritor’s, or from the community’s, monies? Which leads to...

[B2) Do ‘inheritors’ also include a case of “only daughters”, or only when there are “sons”]

C) Is the ‘Tamid - Continuous’ of one ongoing obligation, or is it of a continuous daily renewal of the obligation? Which leads to…

D) Is the 'Tamid - Continuous' daily renewal only of the obligation to bring the offering, or also of the, anointment of the Kohain Gadol? Which leads to…

E) Can the Kohain Gadol (l’chatchilah) do any service, on any day, before he brings his ‘anointment offering?

However, then Mordechai rents his garments, and goes out crying, creating a mourning by all the Jews. Why?!

Because while Mordechai knew that Israel will arise to the occasions, nevertheless, in order to make this happen, he would have to arouse the Jewish Spark within each and ever Jew.

In other words: Worry not if G-d is forgiving us, for G-d is! Rather, work on being able to open our mind, hear, and soul, so that we can internalize G-d's forgiveness.

However, our Holy Temple was not built in a day, is still being built, and will be eternal!

Moses started the construction with the Tabernacle in the desert, King Solomon continued it with constructing the First Temple in Jerusalem, Ezra the Scribe continued it with constructing the Second Temple, You and I are continuing it by learning the teachings of the construction of the Holy Temple, and then, G-d Himself will complete it, with the eternal Third Temple coming to us from Heaven!

All we have to do in order not to sin, and to correct pass sins, is to "remember" that G-d is consistently creating us "creatio ex nihilo"!

Every tie a knot in order to remember something?

Well the knot of Tefillin and the knots of a Tallit are in order to remember G-d. And that was what G-d asked of Moses to teach Israel.

However, while we still struggle without feelings, then we must (and can!) nevertheless wage a successful war in keeping our Thoughts, Speech and Actions pure.

So too, with the Blue-Tunic, with its bells announcing his arrival before G-d, wearing the garment was the job.

B. It is clear from Maimonides' drawing, and from Rashi's wording, that the Menorah's branches were straightly slanted upward, and not in a circular form. Hence, why are some drawings/makings have the Menorah's branches circular?! Even more troublesome is that the Temple's Menorah which was a declaration of honor that G-d's presence rested among Israel, is being depicted from the Arch of Titus, which was a construction dedicated to the defeat and shame of Israel?! So, let's "straighten-out" our images of the Temple's Menorah, and even of our Chanukah Menorah, which is all about our mission of being, "A light unto the nations!"

Why did G-d tell King Solomon to also build an under-ground Holy of Holies?

Can the Temple be "Resurrected" of will there have to be a "New" Temple built?

Join for a fascinating journey of the Rebbe to the Hidden (not Lost!) Ark....

Was this a mini-Torah or a Book of the Covenant?

What virtue is there to the Covenant between Israel and G-d taking place before G-d descended to us, and gave us Himself and His Torah?

This are the question the sicha clarifies for us.

If G-d did an action, why is not clearly stated in the verse?

If G-d's action was only in the celestial realm, nevertheless, should this not have a visible effect on its terrestrial counterpart?

Does the existence of the heavenly Temple depend upon a present existence of the earthly Temple?

Lastly, in cases where "mere designation" is a "significant matter" would this apply even if the designation was through mere speech, or is an action necessary?

These are the questions the Rebbe will clarify in this sicha.

Is there such a thing as humiliation if the 'object' is not capable of feelings? Or is the humiliation on the 'user' of the item?

Is it just about outright humiliation, or even a behavior that could be 'interpreted' as humiliation?

Is the honor of a fellow Jew just an issue of a human being who has feelings, or is it also the honor of G-d, in Who's "likeness and image" we are created?

These are the issues explored in this sicha.

"Two verses that contradict each other until a third verse comes and resolves the contradiction,” in which neither verse is negated, but rather, both are defined in unity.

The power of connecting with the “Truth of Truths,” is beyond just the finite human intellectual capacity, but rather it depends upon Humility. For only through humility can one overcome his own natural inclinations of the mind and heart, and to open himself up to Divine Eternal Truth of Truths.

However, in essence, all of the above is but one argument, concerning how deep the impurity of the exile effects, whether in the material of the form, or in the original mass itself, thus, how deep our service must be, and thus, how high the redemption will reach. The outcome being, that we are capable to liberate ourselves even from the rawest definition of Self.

Was it because he thought that his family, the Jewish people, were in distress, and the law forbids marital relationships in times when, "Israel is in distress"?

No. It is because Joseph, the Righteous, did not want to give offspring to the dominion of the "Left Side" which rule in the time of, "Years of Famine."

Nevertheless, "this time" Esau's compassion heated up and he kissed Esau wholeheartedly, for it is within the capacity of a Jew to have this temporary effect upon the gentile

So too, it is the purity of the olive oil kindled for the Chanukah Lights that brings an end to the rebels against G-d in the darkness of the marketplace.

So too, it is from the "Shabbat Food" of Moshiach's table, that we illuminate the darkness of these final moments of exile

Additionally, Jacob went about his living in exile with joy, for he clearly saw the ascent he was to acquire through working the present descent

And now you and I, the offspring of Abraham and Isaac, can serve G-d's in miraculous ways!

In this talk the Rebbe delves into the Beis Yoseph's two approaches upon the miracle of Chanukah, and brings forth an unprecedented third approach, in which all questions upon the Beis Yoseph's two approaches are answered.

Nimneh HaNimnois!

G-d is not saying that He regrets making mankind, but that that He regrets even thinking of obliterated mankind, since we were made by Him!

When you are doing who YOU are, then not doing what someone is, doesn't speak of a lacking in you.

Especially, when you can acknowledge and appreciate what the other is doing, as well.

Hence, it isn't anymore about the impure, "Advice of the Serpent," but of the G-dly "Tree of Knowledge"

Both these services are hinted to in the very name of the month: Elul, and on the dimensions, that of the Tzemach Tzedek, and that of the Rebbe's father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchom Schneerson

Why?

Because this sign was to show that G-d's choosing Aharon for the kehuna permeated Aharon and his offspring to the point that kehuna becomes their very nature

Because there is something deeper in the first stage of redemption than even the final stage!

It was actually a very spiritual war

And all of these so that we be able to also participate in all the other parts of serving G-d!

Not so with Prayer (expressed openly in Sefirat HaOmer), in which the very object of the mitzvah is the intention (a "Service of the Heart")

Each of the 613 Mitzvot has the goal to bring the Infinite Light into the Finite World. However, this is made possible only through Prayer, which is all about bonding with the Master of the Will, creating a new Supernal Will, from which physically new changes happen (the healing of the sick).

And why would their advice be but to, "Pray for the integrity of the government," in order to stop himself from "swallowing his friend alive"?!

Pious men need to make sure that their piety do not lead them to feel superior than others, with the need to have the other swallowed within their pious protection...

Tazria (Conceive; New Life): Torah's punishments, such as tzora'as (leprosy) are never about about vengeance, but about cleansing, and offering New Life.

Metzorah (Leper): The cleansing process doesn't begin with the sacrifices, but with the leprosy itself, after which the sacrifices firment the atonement.

More than this, the Shabbat Candles protect us from darkness,

And even more than this, the Shabbat Candles transform the darkness into Light!

Hence, there is a lot to understand about how the Evil Inclination, and how to over come it, from the Torah telling us that the Serpent is a, "Goes on Goichen Creature"

Being that the purpose of the Tabernacle was, “And I will dwell in their midst,” and Moses told Aharon, “This is the thing... do it, and the glory of G-d will appear,” hence, Aharon is now blessing Israel, for the mission of, “I will dwell in their midst,” to be fulfilled!

Why?

In order for Aharon’s service to bring the, “I will dwell in their midst,” Aharon must first obtain complete atonement for the sin of the Golden Calf from G-d. Therefore, Aharon blesses/prays for Israel with a specific three verses to accomplish, "the glory of G-d will appear."

There will be a time, when Moshiach comes, that we will have Pure Pleasure, "Rich Bread," of mind and heart, with no need for Watching or Subduing any Leavening, for evil will have been removed from the world.

Presently, we need to have a fine blend of both, in which our mind and heart (Rich Bread) can at least appreciate that we presently need to surrender our will and have Obedience (Poor Bread). However, our mind and heart, being incapable of appreciating Torah and Mitzvot, are still in danger of Leavening. Hence we have a mixture of Rich Bread (mind and heart), which is capable of Leavening and needs to be Watched.

The power of a sacrifice bringing atonement for sin, is specifically because a sacrifice touches our, "Pre (above and beyond) Torah and Mitzvot," Essence Connection of G-d Freely Choosing us as His children: "Even though they sin, they are My children!"

Because, the High Priest teaches to people how to Love, G-d, and love allows for the person to feel the intensity of their ego I. The King teaches his people Fear, which breeds self-abnegation.

Hence, "Fortunate is the generation, whose leader takes heart to bring an atonement for even his unintentional sin."

Hence, the beauty of having an individual letter in a Unity Torah

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a) Be you to your fullest, using your G-d giving gifts and talents to it fullest.

b) Be their to alleviate the pain of others, physically and spiritually, even if means to run against the normal "ways of the world"

Service #1: Outer-altar, outer-heart, sacrifices, rectifying our inner-animal, demands continuous self-cleansing, before every service, less we fall.

Service #2: Inner-altar, Inner-heart, incense, bonding with G-d, demands but one washing, prior to entering, being that we are in our inner-realm of holiness.

Service #3: Inner-altar, Inner-heart, unique sacrifices, atonement for a negative experience, demands its own washing, so that we can transform the descent into an unprecedented ascent

Yes! But, because he was a Jerusalemite, who, "Because they were pious, a blessing was given within their Torah," and, "They were successful in understanding and become wise immediately."

As chassidim of our Rebbe, we too are asked to take from our spiritual time to, "seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all their seed."