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Mountains of Infinite Love: I Can Be Religious My Entire Life But Never Experience TeshuvahThis text-based class is the fifth and last in a series on Likkutei Torah Maamar "Atem Nitzavim," a discourse said by the Alter Rebbe on Shabbos Parshas Nitzavim, 28 Elul, 5662/1802, and was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, 18 Elul, 5785, September 11, 2025, Parshas Ki Savo, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. This class was presented on Friday, 26 Elul, 5785, September 19, 2025, Parshas Nitzavim, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9770

The Final Chapter of Tehilim: When I Ask What's the Benefit of Connection, It's Because I’m Not Experiencing ConnectionThis text-based class is the fourth in a series on Likkutei Torah Maamar "Atem Nitzavim," a discourse said by the Alter Rebbe on Shabbos Parshas Nitzavim, 28 Elul, 5662/1802, and was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, 18 Elul, 5785, September 11, 2025, Parshas Ki Savo, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. This class was presented on Thursday, 25 Elul, 5785, September 18, 2025, Parshas Nitzavim, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9768

Panama Yarchei Kallah 2025

Coronating the King: Bringing Hashem into the Most Shameful, Lonely Parts of Your BeingThis class was presented on Tuesday, 23 Elul, 5785, September 16, 2025, Parshas Nitzavim, at The Barn @ 84 Viola Rd. in Montebello, NY. We explore the first question asked by G-d to Adam on the first Rosh Hashanah of history: Ayeka, where are you? He did not ask him why he sinned and ate from the tree of knowledge; he asked him: Why do you need to hide from me? Can you come out of your hiding place so we can enjoy the garden together? We analyze the inner fear and shame that paralyze so many of us, and deprive us of the ability to experience internal love and bliss. The coronation of Hashem on Rosh Hashanah is the invitation to bring infinite Divine acceptance into those very shameful and scary places. The life-changing experience of embracing all our parts and allowing the love to flow freely and uninhibitedly.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9767

In My Outer Heart, I Want to Stay in Flow; In My Inner Heart, It Can’t Get More Perfect This text-based class is the third in a series on Likkutei Torah Maamar "Atem Nitzavim," a discourse said by the Alter Rebbe on Shabbos Parshas Nitzavim, 28 Elul, 5662/1802, and was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, 18 Elul, 5785, September 11, 2025, Parshas Ki Savo, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. This class was presented on Monday, 22 Elul, 5785, September 15, 2025, Parshas Nitzavim, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.   View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9766

Turning My Soul and Body Into a ShofarLive Selichos Event, Motzei Shabbos, 20 Elul, 5785, September 13, 2025, In Person at 20 Forshay Rd, Upstairs & Live Stream.

How Love Evolves: Your Deepest Love Flows Exquisitely from Your Connection with Self This text-based class is the second in a series on Likkutei Torah Maamar "Atem Nitzavim," a discourse said by the Alter Rebbe on Shabbos Parshas Nitzavim, 28 Elul, 5662/1802, and was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, 18 Elul, 5785, September 11, 2025, Parshas Ki Savo, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. This class on the second chapter of the discourse discusses covenantal love vs. transactional love, and why people make a "covenant of love," inviting the connection to graduate to a space that is supra-rational. He discusses the love of David and Yonoson, and the love that Moshe engendered after the sin of the golden calf. We discuss the meaning of love that flows from your truest essence and becomes the most exquisite extension of your self-love. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9765

The Pyramids vs. the Menorah: How Do I Know When to Trust a Leader?This is the first of a series of text-based classes on Likkutei Torah, Maamar "Atem Nitzavim," a discourse said by the Alter Rebbe on Shabbos Parshas Nitzavim, 28 Elul, 5662/1802, and was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Wednesday, 17 Elul, 5785, September 10, 2025, Parshas Ki Savo, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. This class explores the true meaning of unity, how on Rosh Hashanah all the sparks of all the souls return to their singular source. We explore how in holiness there is never an absolute hierarchy, only a functional one, because holiness recognizes the singular source of all and the interconnectedness of everyone and everything. The class also discusses the true meaning of leadership, how the true leader sees himself or herself merely as a channel, never hijacking the energy for themselves and their ego.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9762

Elul & Rosh Hashanah Without Anxiety: Is Chassidus Really About Healing Trauma?This class was presented on Tuesday, 16 Elul, 5785, September 9, 2025, Parshas Ki Savo, at The Barn @ 84 Viola Rd. in Montebello, NY.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9761

Hashem Wants Me to Coronate Him as My King; But What If I’m Not Interested?This text-based class is the second of a two-part series on a historic Sicha (address) by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, given at the Farbrengen of Shabbos Parshas Shoftim, 7 Elul, 5748, August 20, 1988, published in Sefer Hasichos 5748 vol. 2. This class, exploring the essence of our relationship with Hashem, what it means to know Him in all your ways, what is the core of education, and why Elul is not desginated as a month of joy, was presented on Friday, 12 Elul, 5785, September 5, 2025, Parshas Ki Seitzei, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. For much of our lives, especially our struggles, there are no clear directives in Torah on how to deal with them. So we search for people to guide us all the time, to tell us what to do. But the real essence of Judaism is to learn how to trust yourself, your true innate oneness with Hashem, and truth. This address by the Rebbe is life-changing in how we see ourselves, our children, and our relationship with Hashem, and how we step away from a trauma-based Judaism to a redemptive consciousness. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9759

Why Is Education Not One of the 613 Mitzvos? Because You Can't Command Someone to TrustThis text-based class is the first of a two-part series on a historic Sicha (address) by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, given at the Farbrengen of Shabbos Parshas Shoftim, 7 Elul, 5748, August 20, 1988, published in Sefer Hasichos 5748 vol. 2. This class, exploring the reason that the month of Elul is not festive in nature and dissecting what is the essence of education and raising children, was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, 11 Elul, 5785, September 4, 2025, Parshas Ki Seitzei, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9758

The Prerequisite for Judaism: Learning How to Trust Ourselves for RealThis class was presented on Tuesday, 9 Elul, 5785, September 2, 2025, Parshas Ki Seitzei, at The Barn @ 84 Viola Rd. in Montebello, NY.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9748

My Love Will Be Stronger Than Your Defiance: What I Learnt From Rabbi Shimon Russell About Raising Children

How Do You Transform Your Relationships From Transactional to Open-Hearted?This class was presented on Monday, 17 Av, 5785, August 11, 2025, Parshas Vaeschanan, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. This is the fourth class of a four-part series on a text-based discourse by the Alter Rebbe, "Einyan Krias Shema," said by the Alter Rebbe in the summer of 1805 (24 Tamuz, 5565), published in Likkutei Torah Vaeschanan. It is a unique and life-changing Maamar, addressing some of the fundamental ideas of Kabbalah and Chabad ChassidusView Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9753

If My Wounded Parts Will Not Find Trust, I Will Never Surrender to OnenessThis class was presented on Friday, 14 Av, 5785, August 8, 2025, Parshas Vaeschanan, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. This is the third class of a four-part series on a text-based discourse by the Alter Rebbe, "Einyan Krias Shema," said by the Alter Rebbe in the summer of 1805 (24 Tamuz, 5565), published in Likkutei Torah Vaeschanan. It is a unique and life-changing Maamar, addressing some of the fundamental ideas of Kabbalah and Chabad ChassidusView Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9747

The Layers of Self: War Novels, Business Anxiety, Personal Safety. But Once You Find the Core of Your Being, You Never Step AwayThis class was presented on Thursday, 13 Av, 5785, August 7, 2025, Parshas Vaeschanan, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. This is the second class of a four-part series on a text-based discourse by the Alter Rebbe, "Einyan Krias Shema," said by the Alter Rebbe in the summer of 1805 (24 Tamuz, 5565), published in Likkutei Torah Vaeschanan. It is a unique and life-changing Maamar, addressing some of the fundamental ideas of Kabbalah and Chabad ChassidusView Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9746

The Divine Interface: Understanding the “Cosmic Chain” from Atzilus to the Physical RealityThis class was presented on Wednesday, 12 Av, 5785, August 6, 2025, Parshas Vaeschanan, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. This is the first class of a four-part series on a text-based discourse by the Alter Rebbe, "Einyan Krias Shema," said by the Alter Rebbe in the summer of 1805 (24 Tamuz, 5565), published in Likkutei Torah Vaeschanan. It is a unique and life-changing Maamar, addressing some of the fundamental ideas of Kabbalah and Chabad Chassidus.   View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9745

Can You Communicate Without Defensiveness? The Incredible Lesson of Shimon Hamsoni and Rabbe AkivaThis class was presented on Tuesday, 11 Av, 5785, August 5, 2025, Parshas Vaeschanan, at The Barn in Montebello, NY. There is a story in the Talmud, in which Shimon the Imsonite retracts his entire theory that the term "Es" indicates the inclusion of another person or item, due to a single verse in this week’s portion, “You shall fear -- Es -- the Lord your G-d.” How can we be in awe of anybody but G-d? Yet his student, Rabbi Akiva, rescues his teacher’s refuted theory. The obvious question is what did Rabbi Akiva discover which Shimon did not? Shimon could not entertain the notion of including anything in the commandment to fear G-d. For him, such a proposition would be blasphemy. Why did Rabbi Akiva, then, not have a problem of adding Torah scholars to the mitzvah of fearing G-d?  How is it that for what Shimon was blasphemy was for Rabbi Akiva perfectly acceptable, and even a mitzvah?! You were selected to win the Nobel Prize for your contribution to physics. You received your tickets to Norway to attend the lavish ceremony. You were featured on the cover of Time magazine, and have been interviewed by hundreds of journals and networks. Minutes after you received the call that the Nobel Committee had chosen you from 40 possible candidates, you went from being an anonymous physicist spending the last 45 years in a laboratory to becoming a world-class scientist whose name will be immortalized in the annals of scientific innovation and discovery. You become a household name. The world is buzzing with your praise. And then… the unthinkable happens. Hours before you go to the airport to fly to Norway, you discover a subtle mistake in one of your 20,000 equations.  It is a mistake that no eye has perceived and perhaps will not be perceived for many years. But it is a mistake. Your calculation is erroneous. You have refuted your discovery. You now have a choice to make. Will you allow the “small truth” to destroy your eternal glory? What would you do? It is such a story that the Talmud is addressing. If only we can internalize this type of integrity our lives can be transformed.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9744

If You Want to Love with an Open Heart, Hold Space for the Discomfort and ShameThis class was presented on Thursday, 6 Av, 5785, July 31, 2025, Parshas Devarim, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. This is the seventh and final class in a series of text-based classes on the Maamar (discourse) of the Alter Rebbe, Al Ken Yomru Hamoshlim, in Likkutei Torah Parshas Chukas, presented by Rabbi Schnuer Zalman of Liadi on Shabbos, Parshas Chukas-Balak, 12 Tamuz, 5567 (1807).View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9742