Parshas Behar

The maamarim 3

1. 1 כי תבואו אל הארץ אשר אני נותן לכם… When You Come into the Land That I Am Giving You Before a person can “sow” the Torah, the “land must rest”: self-nullifying love in prayer must come before learning, so that the Torah, like baked bread, is absorbed into the soul and unites it with G‑d. Maamar 1.26 paragraphs~1 h 5 min131 sourcesEnglish
2. 2 את שבתתי תשמרו ומקדשי תיראו וגו׳ “My Shabbosos you shall keep, and My Sanctuary you shall revere” Every Shabbos holds two Shabbosos: a lower Shabbos, in which the worlds rise and their yesh is nullified into ayin within Chochmah, and a higher Shabbos, in which Chochmah itself is included in the Infinite Light that encompasses all worlds. This is the same ascent the souls gain by descending into bodies and keeping the mitzvos, whose reward, the revelation of sovev at the Resurrection, is the mitzvah’s own bittul made complete. Maamar 2.30 paragraphs~2 h 5 min263 sourcesEnglish
3. 3 ביאור הדברים ע״פ את שבתותי כו׳ An explanation of the words on “My Shabbosos you shall keep” Shabbos is “kept” and the Sanctuary “revered” because Shabbos is an encompassing light and the Torah an inner light, both from the one Infinite Light. In the tzimtzum that light was hidden in the letters, the reshimu, from which every level up to Adam Kadmon came; Shabbos raises each world back into the light it came from, the lower Shabbos lifting the lower worlds into Atzilus and the higher Shabbos lifting Adam Kadmon into the Infinite Light, the ascent for which the souls came down. Maamar 3.Biur24 paragraphs~1 h 40 min135 sourcesEnglish

The Rebbe’s maamarim on this parsha 1

The Rebbe built one of his maamarim (5713) on the Alter Rebbe’s maamarim of this parsha. Each maamar’s page summarizes them, with what the Rebbe adds; or see them all together.

• Maamar 1כי תבואו אל הארץ אשר אני נותן לכם…1 maamar · 5713

Learn it in seven days Sunday to Shabbos

The Rebbe asked that all the maamarim of the week’s parsha be learned in that week, spread over its seven days. Here is the parsha in seven portions of about equal length.

1. SUNMaamar 1, ¶1–17~42 min
2. MONMaamar 1 ¶18 – maamar 2 ¶4~42 min
3. TUEMaamar 2, ¶5–15~37 min
4. WEDMaamar 2, ¶16–22~48 min
5. THUMaamar 2 ¶23 – maamar 3 ¶3~46 min
6. FRIMaamar 3, ¶4–12~41 min
7. SHABMaamar 3, ¶13–24~40 min