Textual Study of Chassidic Works

Classes on Tanya; divided according to the daily study schedule.

Speaks to one who feels comfortable with materiality while struggling to access spirituality. No matter how much one may be flooded with physicality, the flame of the soul forever burns. Thus, there is no reason to despair or lose hope, G-d forbid, for nothing can extinguish the soul`s fiery love of G-d.

A textual study of a discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe describing the essence of Chassidic teaching and culture (from a talk delivered on the 19th of Kilev, 5726).

Although "Love your fellow as yourself" is, as Rabbi Akiva taught, the great underlying principle of the Torah, actually achieving this love is a profound challenge for most people. Human personality is instead, often given to baseless hatred. This discourse deals with the spiritual roots of such hatred, its practical consequences, and its remedy.

Textual study of the maamar basi l’gani, the last Chassidic discourse of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, R. Yosef Yitzchak, which is customarily studied each year on his yarhtziet—the tenth of Shevat.

Textual study of the maamar basi l’gani, the last Chassidic discourse of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, R. Yosef Yitzchak, which is customarily studied each year on his yarhtziet—the tenth of Shevat.

This discourse of the Alter Rebbe from Likkutei Torah explains how the animal offerings brought in the Temple symbolize the refinement of our own animal character.

An in-depth text-based study of a mystical discourse on the metaphysics of repentance. From the book, Derech Mitzvosecha, by the third Rebbe of Chabad, R' Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch (1789-1866).

A series of classes based on a chassidic discourse of the Rebbe which explains the mystical significance of the verse (Deut. 6:2) "When tomorrow your child will ask you, "What are the testimonies, the statutes and the laws... [of Pesach]?"

Line-by-line study of a mystical discourse delivered by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe in Lithuania in 1931. The title is taken from the verse (Kings II 4:10): "Now let us make a small walled upper chamber, and place there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp; and it will be that when he comes to us, he will turn into there."