Chassidus on Marriage
Four videos for a chosson and kallah, their parents, and anyone preparing for a chasunah: what our Rebbe and the Rebbeim teach about marriage, from the days before the wedding to the home built after it. About eighteen minutes in all.
The Days Leading Up
Why the weeks before the chasunah are “yakar mikol yakar,” more precious than anything, and how to prepare for them.
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The Day of the Chasunah
Two halves of one neshamah, a personal Yom Kippur, and the chuppah under the open sky.
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Shalom Bayis
Making room for Hashem in the home: seven pointers from Chazal and from our Rebbe’s letters.
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The Brachos, and the Home
What the sheva brachos ask for, and the home our Rebbe asked every couple to build.
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Lecha Dodi (5714)
Our Rebbe’s maamar Lecha Dodi, said on Shabbos Parshas Ki Seitzei, 13 Elul 5714, and edited by our Rebbe for print in 5739, explained in its full flow.
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Chassidus on the Weekly Parsha
Torah Ohr and Likkutei Torah are the Alter Rebbe’s maamarim on the weekly parsha and the Yomim Tovim, compiled and published by the Tzemach Tzedek. Our Rebbe often urged learning them each week as “the Chassidishe parsha,” and asked that we learn all of their maamarim, since they hold the fundamental teachings of all of Chassidus.
Each week, one maamar on that week’s parsha, followed through in its own order: the question, the answers, and the explanation, with a short Chassidishe story.
Sources: Our Rebbe’s sichos on learning Torah Ohr and Likkutei Torah, including Shabbos Parshas Chayei Sarah 5752; the Alter Rebbe’s teaching to “live with the times,” Hayom Yom 2 Cheshvan.
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Our Rebbe’s Maamarim
Our Rebbe said maamarim at farbrengens on the special days of the year, and edited many of them for print. These edited maamarim are gathered in Sefer HaMaamarim Melukat.
Before each Chabad day and Yom Tov, a maamar our Rebbe edited for that day, presented in its full flow, one longer video or a few parts as the maamar needs.
Sources: Sefer HaMaamarim Melukat (Kehot).
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Special Days, in Depth
Each special day in four parts: the stories of the day, what our Rebbe says about it, its halachos and minhagim in detail, and the deeper Chassidus behind it.
First, Yud Tes Kislev, Rosh Hashanah of Chassidus, the day the Alter Rebbe was freed from prison in 5559 (1798). Then Bar Mitzvah, Bris, Upsherin, Chof Beis Shevat and the rest of the year.
Sources: Each video names its sources.
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Hemshech Samach Vov (5666)
A continuous series of maamarim that the Rebbe Rashab began on Rosh Hashanah 5666 (1905), each building on the one before. It is learned as one of the foundation texts of Chabad Chassidus.
We will go through the whole hemshech in short videos, a few for each maamar, with an introduction to the hemshech and summaries along the way.
Sources: Sefer HaMaamarim 5666 (Kehot).
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Hemshech Ayin Beis (5672)
The longest series of maamarim in Chabad: 144 maamarim the Rebbe Rashab said from 5672 (1911) to 5676 (1916), together with a long continuation that was never divided into separate maamarim. It explains the central ideas of Chassidus with rare depth and order.
All of it, in short videos, a few for each maamar, with introductions and periodic summaries so the whole picture stays in view.
Sources: Hemshech Ayin Beis 5672 (Kehot).
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The Rebbe Rashab’s Kuntreisim
Short works by the Rebbe Rashab on the inner work of a Chassid: Kuntres UMaayan (5663, 1903) on the animal soul and how it is refined; Kuntres HaTefillah (5660, 1899–1900) on davening; Kuntres HaAvodah (5669–5670) on the service of the heart; and Kuntres Etz HaChaim, written for the talmidim of Tomchei Temimim and first printed in 5664 (1904).
We begin with Kuntres UMaayan, and continue through the others in this order.
Sources: Kuntres UMaayan, Kuntres HaTefillah, Kuntres HaAvodah, Kuntres Etz HaChaim (Kehot).
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Klalei HaChinuch v’HaHadracha
The Frierdiker Rebbe’s short, exacting work on how a mechanech and a parent guide a child, beginning with the educator’s own self-examination. It was printed in Kuntres Chai Elul 5703 (1943).
Chapter by chapter, with examples from the classroom and the home.
Sources: Klalei HaChinuch v’HaHadracha, Kuntres Chai Elul 5703.
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