Likkutei Sichot, Volume 9 - ואתחנן - ג

Introduction According to our Sages, See Sifsei Chachamim, Chasam Sofer, Bereishis 37:35, et al. the fact that a person becomes less pained by the loss of a loved one over the course of time is ordained from Above. Otherwise, there would be no way that on...

The Haftorah of the weekly reading of Vaes’chanan begins with the words, “Comfort, comfort My people, says your G‑d.”Yeshayahu 40:1. The MidrashYalkut Shimoni, Yeshayahu, Remez 445. explains that the word “comfort” appears twice because of the twofold nat...

Likkutei Sichos, Vol. IX, p. 61ff. I. The TurOrach Chayim, ch. 428. See also Shulchan Aruch and Ramah 428:8, Tosafos Megillah 31b, and Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Hilchos Tefillah 13:19. states that from Parshas Bereishis until the Seventeenth of Tammuz, “the ...

To Dwell Among Mortals With His commandment to the Jews to erect a Sanctu­ary, G‑d also gave the promise,Shmos 25:8. “I will dwell within.” That promise was fulfilled with the manifestation of G‑d’s Presence in the Sanctuary — as it is written,Ibid. 40:35...

The 9th of Av is the date on which both Temples were destroyed. Each year, on the subsequent Shabbat, we read as our Haftorah the famous passage of consolation from Isaiah “Comfort ye, comfort ye My people.” The Midrash tells us that this is, literally, a...