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This is the first of a series of text-based classes on a Chassidic discourse, B’chal Dor V’dor Chayav Adam, presented by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on 11 Nissan, 5734, April 3, 1974.

This class was presented on Monday, Parshas Tazria, 29 Adar lI, 5784, April 8, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

The first class explores four dimensions of the Egyptian Exodus: the first time it happened, the annual anniversary commemoration, the daily experience, and finally how it will be remembered after the coming of Moshiach.

The name for Egypt, Mitzrayim, means confinements and restrictions. It begins with the onset of the first “tzimtzum,” the empty space carved as a prerequisite for existence in which we can experience a self, outside of Divine infinite oneness. The tzimtzum is the moment when G-d conceals His infinite presence, allowing for the existence of the “other,” and it is the genesis of all limits and confinements, the belief that I am finite and alone.

Yet the purpose of it is for us to ultimately discover that the limits themselves were carved by G-d, and constitute your gateway to your ultimate growth.

This class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Tzav, 16 Adar II, 5784, March 26, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

This class was presented on Friday, Parshas Vayikra, 12 Adar II, 5784, March 22, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

This class was presented on Ta'anis Esther, Thursday, Parshas Vayikra, 11 Adar II, 5784, March 21, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

This class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Vayikra, 9 Adar II, 5784, March 19, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

This text-based class, the third in a series, is on a Maamar, a Chassidic discourse, presented by the Lubavitcher Rebbe at a Farbrengen, on Sunday, Purim 5716, February 26, 1956. The class was taught by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Monday, Parshas Vayikra, 8 Adar II, 5784, March 18, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

This lecture, followqed by Q and A, was presented for Avnei Chein, Israel, was presented on Sunday, 7 Adar II, 5784, March 17, 2024

Rabbi YY Jacobson & Sony Perlman on the podcast "Brainstorm with Sony Perlman", Motzei Shabbos, 6 Adar II, 5784, March 16, 2024.

The conversation focused on the mental health crisis of our age, and the question if we have betrayed our youth by placing such overemphasize on emotions. How do we understand the soul and heartbeat of our generation?

The interview explored also the burden of inauthenticity, understanding our coping mechanisms, healing our marriages, child abuse, and the Agunah crisis.

For all the other episodes:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/10sK1alOjYevtBKFNT0y0u?si=2TiYHoEwR_uvYzOa_UW8Lw

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brainstorm-with-sony-perlman/id1596925257?i=1000649439737

This text-based class, the second in a series, is on a Maamar, a Chassidic discourse, presented by the Lubavitcher Rebbe at a Farbrengen, on Sunday, Purim 5716, February 26, 1956. The class was taught by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, Parshas Pekudei, 4 Adar II, 5784, March 14, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

“When you don’t know how beautiful you are:” our decline begins with the absence of self-respect and self-love. The class explores the uniqueness of Purim by explaining two states of life of the Jewish people and of every Jew, represented by the two names Rachel and Esther. The first is when I am rooted and anchored in my soul, the second is when I am unaware of my own inner Divine beauty and dignity.

The maamar explains two forms of spiritual beauty, "toar" and "mareh," physique and face, representing the positive and negative mitzvos, and the beauty that comes from integration, when every mitzvah is interlinked to every other mitzvah. When you touch the Divinity of a mitzvah, you are not stuck in your comfort zone, and in your ego, but connected to the Divine who transcends structure. 

This class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Pekudei, 25 Adar II, 5784, March 12, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

In one of the most bizarre Talmudic stories (Megilah 7b), two of the greatest Talmudic sages feast on Purim together. They are inebriated and one of them slaughters his friend. The next day he brings him back to life. The following year he invites his colleague for another Purim meal.

This fascinating class, based on an address of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, re-invents the meaning of the story, and applies it to our daily opportunity to link heaven and earth. 

Purim represents the gift to experience an ego-death, the portal to true inner connection and bliss.