The Sicha, Rabbi Chaim Wolosow

How Could Eating Non-Kosher Food Warrant Total Annihilation? – The Rebbe's Explanation of a Puzzling Gemara

Why Moses Was Beloved by God for Breaking the Tablets - The Rebbe Explains a Talmudic Teaching

An Extensive Dissertation on the Talmudic Statement that the Erasure of Amalek Appears in the Torah, the Prophets, and the Megillah

“How Exactly Were the Words ‘Holy to Hashem' Engraved on the Tzitz — And Why Seeing It Does Not Contradict Our Tradition”

The Rebbe Explains Rashi: What the Oros Techashim Were and Their Significance

Explaining the Source for the Rambam's View That All Parts of the Menorah—Its Knobs, Flowers, and Cups—Were Made "meshukodim".

The Rebbe on the Paradox of the Machatzit HaShekel: A Half Given Whole

The Rebbe's Analysis of the Status of a Convert in Contemporary Times Without the Ability to Bring a Korban

Explaining the Mechilta and Midrash Rabbah on the Verse “Thus Shall You Say to the House of Jacob and Tell the Children of Israel” — and the Power of Women

The Rebbe on the Obligation to Influence All Humanity to Observe the Seven Noachide Laws

“The Rebbe's Explanation of the Three Opinions Regarding the Recitation of Az Yashir by Bnei Yisrael”

The Rebbe Explains the Two Measures Mentioned Regarding the Manna: First an Omer, and Ultimately Described as One-Tenth of an Ephah

Explaining the Rambam's Ruling: A Minor Who Offered the First Pesach and Reached Adulthood Before Pesach Sheni Is Exempt from Bringing the Offering on Pesach Sheni

The Special Significance of Kiddush HaChodesh as the First Mitzvah of the Torah

“Va'eira and the Two Lights: The Rebbe on the Alter Rebbe's Yahrzeit and the Revealed and Esoteric Torah.”

The Meaning of Three Matzos and Four Cups at the Seder

“Explaining the Divine Name Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh and Mediating Between the Rambam's View and the Talmudic Perspective”

Explaining the Advantage of the Day of Moshe's Birth:The Revelation of Hashem's Eternity, Which Wipes Away the Day of Passing—For His Life Is Eternal Life

Why Did Jacob Require Joseph to Swear Not to Bury Him in Egypt, and Why Was His Promise Alone Not Sufficient?

"The Fast of the Tenth of Tevet: Jerusalem's Siege as the Beginning of the Fasts for All That Followed, and How Hashem Sent the Cure Before the Strike"

How True Unity Is Achieved: Yehudah and Yosef, and the Zohar's Vision of the Unity of the Upper and Lower Worlds

Why Are the Jewish People Referred to as Joseph?

What Is Meant by “They Lit the Candles in the Courtyard,” and Why Is the Miracle of the War Not Mentioned in the Talmud?

How to Preserve Grain and How to Preserve the Torah You Have Studied

The Rebbe Explains the Midrash Stating That Yaakov Recorded the Time, Hour, and Place of Yosef's Dream

Yosef and the Alter Rebbe: Impacting Their Environment in Egypt and in Prison

Rebbe Explains Rashi on “Yaakov Bought the Portion of the Land on Which He Pitched His Tent for 100 Kesitah”

The Rebbe Explains the Three Aspects in Which Yaakov Was Whole When He Came to Shechem: His Body, His Wealth, and His Torah

The Angels Who Escorted Yaakov to Charan Protected Him, While the Angels Who Escorted Him Back to Eretz Yisrael Served as an Honor Guard

The Obligation of a Worker to Labor with All His Strength: Lessons from Jacob's Service in Laban's House

“The Different Ways Avraham and Yaakov Reached Out by Going Outside Eretz Yisroel, and How Yitzchak Reached Out While Remaining Within Eretz Yisroel”

"Did Avrohom Give Maaser? How Did Eisav Deceive His Father by Asking How to Tithe Salt and Straw?"

Why Eliezer Changed Avraham's Words When Speaking to Besuel

The Rebbe Explains the Special Connection Between Chevron and Its People

The Kindness of Avrohom That Brought About the Merit for the Two Mitzvos of Parah Adumah and Sotah

The Rebbe on the Rambam: The Special Kindness and Reward of Escorting Guests

The Two Aspects of Bris Milah: A General Covenant and a Special Mitzvah

Why does the Torah begin with Hashem's command ‘Leave your home and go,' without first introducing Avrohom—and why does Hashem promise such great reward merely for leaving?”

Did it rain or was it already a flood during the first forty days of the Mabul?

Explains Why Noach Did Not Pray for the People of His Generation

The Special Quality of a Person Born on Thursday: Acting with a Greater Level of Kindness than Ordinary

Explaining Rashi on the Verse: “Hashem Saw the Light That It Was Good, and He Separated It”