Yeshiva Tiferes Menachem · Sea Gate
Rabbi Avraham Lipskier — Shiurim
Chassidus & Likkutei Sichos · 18 recorded shiurim
Recovered from the yeshiva archive and digitized. Topics identified from the shiurim themselves.
Maamar 5709 — The Avodah of Elul & Teshuvah
A complete Chassidic discourse (maamar) taught over seven sessions — teshuvah, the neshama as a debtor, and the avodah of Elul.
Maamar 5709 — The Avodah of Elul & Teshuvah — Part 1
Opens on "Ki imcha haselicha lema'an tivarei" (Tehillim 130) — forgiveness leads to yirah; David's request for forgiveness; malchus & atzmus.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Maamar 5709 (Elul/Teshuvah) · 5,353 words
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Maamar 5709 — The Avodah of Elul & Teshuvah — Part 2
The Rebbe's mashal of the debtor who can only half-pay — a forgiving creditor energizes him; the neshama descending into the guf becomes a baal chov (debtor).
R' Avraham Lipskier · Maamar 5709 (Elul/Teshuvah) · 5,789 words
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Maamar 5709 — The Avodah of Elul & Teshuvah — Part 3
The Zohar's three knots (kishrin) — Yisrael bound to Torah, Torah to HKB"H; the soul binds back to Godliness through Torah.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Maamar 5709 (Elul/Teshuvah) · 6,443 words
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Maamar 5709 — The Avodah of Elul & Teshuvah — Part 4
Breaking the animal soul's ta'avah through prishus (separation) — not fasting; abstaining from what the heart desires.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Maamar 5709 (Elul/Teshuvah) · 5,720 words
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Maamar 5709 — The Avodah of Elul & Teshuvah — Part 5
The two levels within the nefesh habehamis — its mochin (intelligence) vs. its middos; why it is called an "animal" soul.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Maamar 5709 (Elul/Teshuvah) · 4,976 words
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Maamar 5709 — The Avodah of Elul & Teshuvah — Part 6
"Ani L'dodi V'dodi Li" = the acronym of ELUL: is'aruta d'ltata (arousal from below, Elul) then hamshacha (drawing down, Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur).
R' Avraham Lipskier · Maamar 5709 (Elul/Teshuvah) · 6,568 words
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Maamar 5709 — The Avodah of Elul & Teshuvah — Part 7
Why the order — first lessen the animal soul, then add power to the godly soul; the sequence of avodah.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Maamar 5709 (Elul/Teshuvah) · 7,073 words
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Likkutei Sichos — Volume 24
Shiurim on the Rebbe's sichos: Elul, the Ten Days of Teshuvah, and the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov.
Ki Seitzei — Marriage & Divorce (Gittin/Kiddushin) in Avodas Hashem
Parshas Ki Seitzei: gittin & kiddushin, the three opinions on divorce, and gerushin/nisu'in as a metaphor in one's spiritual service.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Likkutei Sichos vol. 24 · 8,477 words
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"Dirshu Hashem b'Himatzo" — The Ten Days of Teshuvah
The pasuk in Yeshayahu ("Seek Hashem when He is found") — Chazal: the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Likkutei Sichos vol. 24 · 6,697 words
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Confounding the Satan — The Avodah of Elul & Rosh Hashanah
How the teshuva of Elul "confuses" the prosecuting angel so he has nothing to argue on Rosh Hashanah.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Likkutei Sichos vol. 24 · 7,236 words
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The Baal Shem Tov's Lost Son — The Simple Cry of the Shofar
The BeSHT's parable: a child lost, not knowing the language, cries out "oy!" in a simple voice — and the Father hears; the meaning of the shofar's cry.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Likkutei Sichos vol. 24 · 6,505 words
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Chai Elul — The Baal Shem Tov & the Revelation of Emunah
What the Baal Shem Tov revealed: the secrets of Chassidus in a way that reaches the emunah of every Jew — faith that gives life to everything.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Likkutei Sichos vol. 24 · 7,442 words
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The Tree of Knowledge — Sin, Death & the Snake's Counsel
The Eitz HaDaas: the actual sin vs. the concept of the tree; Hashem's design that sin (and death via the snake's counsel) be possible.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Likkutei Sichos vol. 24 · 6,910 words
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Likkutei Sichos — Volume 20, Sicha 4
A Jew's vitality that transcends his nature.
A Jew's Vitality Beyond Nature — Part 1 (short intro)
Brief opening (167 words): making constant Torah study one's nature — and the paradox that serving Hashem must go beyond mere habit.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Likkutei Sichos vol. 20, sicha 4 · 167 words
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A Jew's Vitality Beyond Nature — Part 2
A Jew's vitality transcends his nature — he can act against it; even one meticulous in all 613 mitzvos with excitement must go beyond.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Likkutei Sichos vol. 20, sicha 4 · 4,951 words
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Parshas Shoftim 5751
"Judges & officers" in one's spiritual service, and the vision of the future redemption.
Parshas Shoftim 5751 — "Judges & Officers" — Part A
"Shoftim v'shotrim": judges, officers & advisors — when they are needed, and "Hashiva shofteinu"; self-governance and the future redemption.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Parshas Shoftim 5751 (1991) · 7,629 words
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Parshas Shoftim 5751 — "Judges & Officers" — Part B
Continuation: in the future only judges (no officers) will be needed — everyone will listen; the prophetic vision of that era.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Parshas Shoftim 5751 (1991) · 6,819 words
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The Haftorah of Vayigash
"My servant David" — king versus leader, and the two aspects of Moshiach.
The Haftorah of Vayigash — "My Servant David"
Yechezkel 37: Melech (king) vs. Nasi (leader), the reversed word-order and "forever"; the Gemara's "kisa u'palgei kisa" — two aspects of Moshiach.
R' Avraham Lipskier · Sichos — 23 Dec 2009 · 7,053 words
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