Yud Tes Kislev The Alter Rebbe’s Geulah and the Tanya
One Point | December 20, 2024
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YUD TES KISLEV:
The Alter Rebbe’s גאולה on י"ט כסלו ה'תקנ"ט is connected with the ספר that the Alter Rebbe wrote, the holy תניא, which was printed two years earlier, in ה'תקנ"ז.
Firstly, the Alter Rebbe was in prison for ___ days, corresponding to the 53 פרקים in תניא.
Secondly, the two years of Chassidim’s תורה and עבודה that were energized by the learning of the תניא served as a זכות for the Alter Rebbe, to help bring about his release.
The תניא is known as the “_______ ______”, of חסידות.
QUESTION:
In what way is the תניא similar to תורה שבכתב?
ANSWER:
- When learning תורה שבעל פה, the most important thing is the content. However, in תורה שבכתב the very _____ are holy and precise. Similarly, the Alter Rebbe spent ___ years writing and editing the תניא, ensuring that every word and letter was precise, just as we do with תורה שבכתב.
- Just as תורה שבכתב includes everything that we find in תורה שבעל פה (even things that were learned before מתן תורה), so, too, in the תניא we can find all the other teachings of _________ (even חסידות that was taught earlier by the בעל שם טוב and the מגיד).
Further discussion:
How does this connect to the fact that the Alter Rebbe was released on a Tuesday (the 3rd day of the week) in כסלו (the 3rd month)?
(See אותיות ב-ד in the Sicha)
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