Preparing for Yud Shevat, world-renowned teacher Rabbi YY Jacobson, presented to the Monsey community part one of the incredible and revolutionary Maamar Basi Legani 5724 (1964), said by the Rebbe 60 years ago, at the Yud Shevat Farbrengen, and being studied this year, 5784-2024.
The theme of the first class of the maamar describes the nature of a soldier when he goes to battle, sadly so relevant to this time of war in Israel.
The Rebbe explains how we are charged with the work of fusing all parts of our life and our world with the Divine truth, and how we repair the insanity of our dark reality only with holy “insanity,” transcending our intellect. This is why the Jewish people are called “the army of Hashem,” because the soldier going to battle must transcend every last vestige of ego and calculations, committed unwaveringly with every fiber of his being to the mission of victory. The class explored the war between Hamas and Israel and the extraordinary sacrifice of the Jewish soldiers waging battle against Jihad; and how we can only defeat Jihad not through rationality, but through the unbridled passion of the Jewish soul.
The class explains the power of “enlightened ignorance,” which allows one to be a conduit for infinity, and the difference between a cult and transcendence. One if afraid of the mind, the other has graduated and seeks that which rationality can’t define or control.
The series is dedicated by Shimshon and Rivky Vcherashansky in loving memory of a man who was immersed in the Rebbe’s maamarim, Reb Zalman Yuda ben Reb Sholom Yeshaya Deitch z”l.
1: The Making of a Jewish Soldier
Direct link to the shiur: https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/9192/basi-lgani-5724-1-the-making-of-a-jewish-soldier
For the source sheets click here.
2: When Defeat Is Not an Option, the Crown Jewels Are Splurged
Direct link to shiur: https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/9193/basi-lgani-5724-2-faceoff-with-hamas-when-the-core-of-the-jewish-soul-is-revealed
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3: The Designer’s Imprint Is Everywhere
Direct link to webpage of shiur: https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/9194/maamer-basi-lgani-5724-3-basi-lgani-5724-3
For the source sheets click here.
