Giving of the Torah

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2 February 2021

This discourse was taught by the Lubavitcher Rebbe during the week of Sedra Yitro in 1970.  It speaks of the meaning of the first words of the Ten Commandments: I am the L-rd your G-d..'.  Who is...

Why The Pain?

17 January 2023

This discourse was taught by the Rebbe in January 1967, on Shabbat Sedra Va'era.  It discusses why there had to be the pain of the slavery in Egypt - which relates also to the pain of other periods...

Talmud Tour Session 9: Shabbat 88a-89a

25 May 2025

The Talmud Tour on Shabbat 88a-89a, honouring Shavuot, explores the Giving of the Torah at Sinai. It discusses the Torah’s threefold nature, its dissolution of the spiritual-physical divide, coercion...

Bemidbar Shavuot 64

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How the diverse Jewish people achieved unity just before the Giving of the Torah, explaining that true unity is not simple oneness but the combination of opposites. The Chassidic teaching on the...