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This discourse was taught by the Rebbe on Shabbat Sedra Yitro in 1965. Near the end of the Sedra, 'The people stand far off and Moshe enters the thick cloud'. The discourse discusses the nature of...
This discourse was taught in the week of Parsha Yitro, which tells of Yitro coming to be with Moses and the Jewish people, and then of the Giving of the Torah. The Zohar links these two events. When...
This discourse was taught by the Rebbe on Shabbat Parshat Yitro in 1984. The Giving of the Torah was a key moment in history, and especially in the history of the Jewish people. They were...
This discourse was taught by the Rebbe on Shavuot in 1969. It discusses the word 'saying' in the verse at the beginning of the Ten Commandments: 'And G-d spoke all these Commandments saying'....
This discourse, taught by the Rebbe in 1965 for Sedra Yitro, discusses Moses' climbing Mount Sinai after the revelation of the Ten Commandments. He was going to be forty days and nights on the...
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...
The goal of existence is to reveal the Divine in the world (to make "a dwelling for the Divine"). This discourse in the week of Sedra Yitro 1978, the Rebbe explains how Non-Jewish Jethro's...
This profound discourse regarding Sedra Yitro was said by the Rebbe in 1965.
The Alef Kabbala Group (14 January 2014) studied a discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe taught in 1984 for Sedra Yitro. Why were there such dramatic phenomena - thunder, lightning, the sound of the...
The Alef Kabbala Group (7 February 2012, eve of 15 Shevat) studied a discourse for Sedra Yitro, said in 1985. The Zohar says that Yitro's acknowledgement of G-d was an important step before the...
The Alef Kabbala Group (18 January 2011)explored an unedited discourse for Sedra Yitro taught by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1984. At the Giving of the Torah the Essence of the Divine was revealed, in...
The Alef Kabbala Group (2 February 2010) explored a discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe said on Shabbat Parshat Yitro in 1977, beginning with the first verse of the Parsha concerning Yitro. Why is the...
The Alef Kabbala Group (10 February 09) explored a discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on the words "I am the L-rd your G-d who took you out of the Land of Egypt", the first of the Ten Commandments,...
The Alef Kabbala Group (6 Feb 07) discussed a discourse on Sedra Yitro, said by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1974 (5734). This 'edited' discourse presents the idea that the Giving of the Torah, the...
Unity in diversity through the contrasting opinions of the Sages and their resolution through the Sanhedrin's authoritative rulings. The ability to accept a unified halachic ruling while maintaining...
The theme of unity in diversity through the Sanhedrin's halachic process, as in the standard Yitro 5773 sheet. The yahrzeit of the Rebbetzin adds a note of commemoration to the Shabbat.
The same theme as the 5770 sheet on transforming the world through the Ten Commandments, exploring the connection between the Ten Statements of creation and the Ten Commandments at Sinai. The...
The continuous revelation of Torah, noting that the blessing before Torah reading uses the present tense: G-d gives the Torah, not gave. The Sinai revelation was unique and unrepeatable, yet Torah...
The significance of numbers, connecting the Ten Statements of creation to the Ten Commandments at Sinai, and asking what the revelation at Sinai achieved. The Giving of the Torah is presented as the...
The significance of the Ten Commandments being engraved on the Tablets of stone rather than written on them, with engraving making the letters and the stone one unified whole. This teaches that the...
The revealed outer Torah and the hidden inner Torah, arguing that both were present at Sinai. The detailed commandments heard at Sinai represent the outer body of Torah, while the spiritual...
The concept of a kingdom of priests, examining the scientific finding that Cohanim share a distinctive gene, and connecting this to the special role of the Jewish people as a whole. G-d's declaration...
Whether Jewish law is democratic, explaining that while Torah comes from above, the extraordinary revelation at Sinai was a collective experience where every Jew heard G-d directly. The laws of...
Unity in diversity through the legal system of the Sanhedrin, where even opposing opinions of Sages come together at the point of the authoritative halachic ruling. Jewish teaching's ability to hold...
The division between our Jewish and non-Jewish sides, using the arrival of Jethro at the Jewish camp as a lens. Jethro's declaration upon hearing of the Exodus that now he knows G-d is greater than...
The Midrash's surprising statement that the first word of the Ten Commandments, Anokhi, is from the Egyptian language. The Lubavitcher Rebbe explains that this teaches the Torah's essential nature:...
The contrast between revolution and evolution to explore two approaches to Jewish transformation, finding both in the Torah. The blessings recited before Torah reading, written in the present tense...
This discourse was delivered by the Rebbe on Shabbat Parshat Yitro, 5745 (1985). The Sedra opens with Jethro hearing what G-d did for Israel and coming to Moses, and Rashi comments that what he heard...
This discourse was delivered by the Rebbe on Shabbat Parshat Yitro, 5744 (1984). The Giving of the Torah at Sinai was marked by dramatic signs: thunder, lightning and an intermingling of the senses....
This discourse was delivered by the Rebbe on Shabbat Parshat Yitro, 5738 (1978). Beginning with the Bati leGani discourse, the Rebbe explains that the true indwelling of the Shechinah in the...
This discourse was delivered by the Rebbe on Shabbat Parshat Yitro, 5725 (1965). The verse 'And Moses entered the thickness of the cloud towards Elokim' is analysed through a discourse by Rabbi...