Chapter 1:
Know Who You Are – Or Living Without Doubt

Chapter 2:
Be Not Afraid - It’s All Part of the Plan

Chapter 3:
Dare to be Different

Chapter 4:
The Few, the Proud, - the Jew

Chapter 5:
You Are Closer Than You Think

Chapter 6:
What Would We Do Without You

Chapter 7:
The World Is Yours To Fix

Chapter 8:
Ignorance is Bliss, but Knowledge is Power

Out of the entire written and oral Torah, the Lubavitcher Rebbe chose twelve passages for children to learn. These passages contain 12 concepts essential to building a healthy balanced life in general and as Jews in particular.

Effort, finding, believability: Three concepts which seem worlds apart are integrally intertwined in the Talmudic dictum “yogati”. Through exploring the internal, personal and long lasting transformations which come about through effort, Rabbi Friedman shows how the punishment of eating from the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden is actually not a curse, but a different path through which the world is to be made holy.

Topics covered in this lecture include:

• Try & you will succeed
• Believability
• Exaggeration
• World to Come
• Repair damage
• G-d’s timetable
• Sefirat HaOmer
• Curse or Benefit
• 40 years in desert
• Easy & hard for G-d
• Personal vs. external
• Water from rock in desert
• Effort guarantees success
• Pesach: an effortless event
• What is the Garden of Eden
• Transforming vs. inspiring
• The wolf will lie with the lamb
• Punishment vs. consequences
• Man’s effort is an act of faith
• Moses not going into the land
• Exaggeration & trustworthiness
• Cause & effect vs. G-d’s blessing
• Physical devolution from spiritual
• Eating bread by the sweat of your brow
• Taking out of Egypt vs. coming to Mt. Sinai