Parshas בראשית – Rabbi Dovid Dubov – From the Rebbe’s Father, Reb Levi Yitzchok זצ״ל

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As we stand in the days before Rosh Hashanah, I would like to share with you a beautiful explanation from the Rebbe's father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson. To give a short introduction to the style and the derech halimud, the way the Rebbe's father would learn, some have a grave mistake when they look into the Rebbe's father's seforim, they right away see gematrios, they see names, all different types of names of Hashem, and they uh they they think it's just a book of full of numerical values of gematrios. And this is a terrible mistake. It's not so. The Rebbe's father always has a theme, a concept, but because of shleimus haTorah, the completeness OF TORAH, HE ALSO SHOWS HOW IT FITS in the realm of gematria, and how every letter in Torah is so exact, and the words that ARE PICKED BY HASHEM, BY TORAH, fits from every corner and angle and detail. And this is going to be an example. We all know Rosh Hashanah is the day that Adam and Chava Adam and Eve Adam and Chava were created. There's a famous question that if you look HOW HASHEM CREATED ADAM and Chava, there are three steps. First, they were one entity. They were one being. I'm not going to go into now into the famous argument if uh Adam and Chava were Siamese twins like the Gemara says, or Hava was taken from a rib. But even as a tsala, that's irrelevant. The main point is that Adam and Hava originally was ONE ENTITY, ONE BODY. AFTERWARDS, IT SAYS IN THE POSSUK, it says in the possuk in Bereishit, Vayapel Hashem Elokim tardema beima alav Adam. Hashem casted a deep SLEEP ON ADAM HARISHON, VAYISHAN vayifol asleep. And then it says

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1. 0:07As we stand in the days before Rosh Hashanah, I would like to share with you…
2. 0:39they see names, all different types of names of Hashem, and they uh they they think…
3. 1:40if you look HOW HASHEM CREATED ADAM and Chava, there are three steps. First, they were…
4. 2:41that Hashem SEPARATED VAYIKACH ACHAS MITZALOSAV, vayisgor basar tachtena. He took a part of Adam Harishon…
5. 3:41tardema has the same numerical value. Uh tardema adds up to 649. It has the same…
6. 4:44was created like that in the six days of creation. Hashem created males and females of…
7. 5:45which in in in in the in the open we don't see godliness in the revealed…
8. 6:45Everything was united and bonded with Hashem. Afterwards, there was a separation. There was a tzimtzum,…
9. 7:45bonded with holiness. And that's what the Rebbe's father said this beautiful thing, that we have…
10. 8:46numerical value as Targum. And just like you have it in Torah, the way this Unkelos…

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