Chof Hey Tishrei – 236th Sicha 💎

Today's learning is dedicated as a zchus for refuah sheleima for Levi HaLevi ben Lea, Yenta bas Aliza, and for all who need healing.

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Shabbos Bereishis — setting the tone and brachos for the entire year!

✨Chelek Chof Hey pg 10. Infinite giving.( Parshas Bereishis)

The Rebbe explains the deeper meaning of the “Thursday soul” - a person born on Thursday, whose nature is to perform acts of kindness (gomel chassadim).

Rashi notes that on the fifth day, Hashem created fish and birds, creatures sustained directly by His kindness - they don’t need to toil for food. On that day, Hashem’s infinite chessed shines openly. Fish, in particular, reflect this endless kindness through their immense ability to multiply and receive boundless blessing.

This teaches us about two levels of kindness:

Measured kindness, which every Jew possesses - helping others within limit.

Infinite kindness, where giving flows without boundaries, mirroring Hashem’s own giving.

How can a person reach this higher, infinite level of giving?

Through bittul -self-nullification before Hashem.

As long as we hold on to ego or self-concern, we struggle to give freely. But when we dissolve our sense of separateness and feel that our entire being is an expression of Hashem, we can give endlessly, like Hashem Himself.

This is symbolized by fish, who live completely submerged in water. They’re batel b’metzius - their whole existence is within the “water,” representing Divine awareness. They’re not affected by ayin hara (the evil eye), a symbol of limitation, and instead draw down infinite blessing.

This quality is connected to Yosef HaTzaddik, whose descendants are also protected from ayin hara. Yosef’s name and mission mirror the fish: to increase and spread holiness throughout the world without fear or limit.

The Frierdiker Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, whose very name echoes Yosef’s essence, embodied this strength: fearlessly spreading the wellsprings of Chassidus to every corner of the earth, unhindered by limitation. The Rebbe continued this mission, sending shluchim to every place in the world to do the same - to share Hashem’s infinite kindness through Torah, mitzvos, and Chassidus.

On a personal level, this means learning to let go - to hand over our struggles and negativity to the Rebbe, release resentment, and open ourselves to our own infinite potential. Through cultivating bittul - setting aside self-focus and connecting deeply to Hashem and the Rebbe - we draw strength from that boundless source.

From this connection flows the power to give without fear or limitation, and to spread light and Chassidus infinitely - like the fish who live completely within their source.