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The Innocent Eisav: How We Destroy Many a Child - Women's Toldos 5777 Class Nov 29, 2016

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The Torah Text Compels Us to Empathize with Eisav

This class was presented to women on Tuesday Parshas Toldos, Nov. 29, 2016, at Ohr Chaim, Monsey, NY. In this class, Rabbi YY Jacobson answers the big question: how can we call Eisav a Rasha if his fate was predetermined in the womb of his mother?

As it turns, out Judaism creates special space for struggle, and so should we. What G-d wants from you is not what He wants from me. Children should never be compared to each other.

This class is based on Likkutei Sichos vol. 20 Parshas Toldos.

Akudim, Nekudim, Berudim -- Oneness, Diversity, Integration - Torah Ohr Noach Vayomer Hashem #1 Nov 26, 2016

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This class, in Torah Or by the Alter Rebbe, Baal HaTanya, was presented in the winter of 5777 (Nov. 2016), in Ohr Chaim Shul, Monsey, NY

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Marx, Trotsky, the Netziv - and The Tower of Babel - Torah Or Noach Vayomer Hashem #3 Nov 08, 2016

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When Unity Is Dangerous

This class, in Torah Or by the Alter Rebbe, Baal HaTanya, was presented in the winter of 5777 (Nov. 2016), in Ohr Chaim Shul, Monsey, NY

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When the Undefined Infiltrates the Defined, Beauty Is Created - Torah Ohr Noach Vayomer Hashem #2 Nov 07, 2016

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This class, in Torah Or by the Alter Rebbe, Baal HaTanya, was presented in the winter of 5777 (Nov. 2016), in Ohr Chaim Shul, Monsey, NY

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"Tell Them You Are My Sister" - Class Lech Lecha Nov 06, 2016

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Analyzing Avraham’s Request from a Halachik & Spiritual Perspective

It is a uniquely enigmatic Midrash. Avraham says to his wife Sarah upon arriving to Egypt, “Please Say That You Are My Sister!” And the Midrash says: “From here we deduce that one may slaughter an animal on the Shabbos for an ill person.” What is the connection between the two?

The class explores three perspectives, the simple explanation; the insight by the Kesav Sofer; and a novel interpretation by the Lubavitcher Rebbe. It boils down to how Avraham analyzed the patterns of behavior that would be employed by the Egyptians, who would be willing to kill him but not to take a married woman.

The class concludes with the analysis of the story on a psychological and spiritual level, in our own marriages, and in our relationship with G-d.

This class was presented on Sunday morning Lech Lecha, 5 Cheshvan, 5777, November 10, 2016, at the Ohr Chaim shul in Monsey, NY.

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Forgivenss Is Returning to the Dance of Life - Likkutei Torah Bayom Hashmini Shilach #1 Nov 03, 2016

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The Spiritual Dance of Life

This class, in Likkutei Torah by the Alter Rebbe, Baal HaTanya, explores the meaning of the series of Tishrei holidays. It was presented on Sukkos 5777 (Oct. 2016), in Ohr Chaim Shul, Monsey, NY

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The Purpose Was to Come Down to a Challenging Earth - Likkutei Torah Bayom Hashmini Shilach #2 Nov 01, 2016

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Time to Go Home

This class, in Likkutei Torah by the Alter Rebbe, Baal HaTanya, was presented on Sukkos 5777 (October 2016), in Ohr Chaim Shul, Monsey, NY

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The Secret of Hoshana Raba: When All the Jews Ate On Yom Kippur - Class Hoshana Rabah/Vayikra Oct 19, 2016

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The Rogatchover's Dazzling Spin on Hoshana Raba -- The One Time in History the Collective Guilt Offering was Brought

The Mishna and Gemarah define the seventh day of Sukkos as the day designated to the mitzvah of Aravah; the Zohar sees it as the final day of judgement and atonement. But why this day? How did Hoshana Raba become a day of atonement?

It was the Rogatchover Gaon who in a letter suggested a dazzlingly novel idea. It was the day that the entire Jewish nation brought an offering of atonement for a major sin they all committed by mistake: eating and drinking on Yom Kippur.

At the peak of the celebration for the dedication of the First Beis Hamikdash, the Supreme Court of the Jewish people made a terrible miscalculation. They needed atonement. And that gave us the holiday of Hoshna Rabah. Not only did this major collective failure not destroy the joy; ultimately it transformed the people of Israel into Baalei Teshuvah, and allowed them to reach even greater spiritual and emotional heights.

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The Cry of the Shofar: Returning the World to Its Source - Likkutei Torah Maamar Tikeu Bachoidesh Shofar #3 Sep 30, 2016

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The Voice that Reaches Deeper than all the Blockages

Likkutei Torah Tikeu Bachoidesh Shofar #3

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From the Whole, to the Part, Back to the Whole - Likkutei Torah Maamar Tikeu Bachodesh Shofar #2 Sep 27, 2016

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The Spiritual Source of Attachment Theory

Facing the Trauma of Creation

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