Eliyahu Touger

On this basis, we can understand the meaning of the verse, “On this day, they came to the Sinai desert.” The maamar in Torah Or explains that the word midbar shares the same root as the word dibbur, meaning “speech.” Midbar adds a mem to the root dalet-be...

The maamar proceeds to offer another explanation why Rosh Chodesh Sivan served as the beginning of the final stage of the Jewish people’s preparation for receiving the Torah: After the exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt, they began counting the Omer, ...

Rather than seek to resolve the question concerning Tosafos’ query mentioned in the previous section according to the traditional pattern of Torah scholarship, the maamar explains that it can be resolved through an understanding of the implications of the...

“In the third month after the exodus of the Children of Israel from the land of Egypt, on this day, they came to the Sinai desert.”Shmos 19:1. From this verse, our Sages derive that our ancestors entered the Sinai desert on Rosh Chodesh Sivan in preparati...

It is natural for a person to ask: What is the purpose of my Torah observance? Where is it supposed to take me? The fundamentals underpinning the answers our Rabbis give to this question point to two basic thrusts: self-transcendence and self-development....

The previous section emphasized that the ultimate purpose of creation is that man perceive the wonders of Torah in a manner consistent with his own makeup. Through the study and spreading of pnimiyus haTorah, the teachings of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, in p...

To add a further point: Based on the well-known axiom that all the concepts in the Torah are extremely precise in nature, explanation is necessary regarding the interrelation of the verses, “Open my eyes and I will gaze at wonders from Your Torah” and “Th...

On the basis of the above concepts, it is possible to understand the connection between the two verses which allude to Lag BaOmer: “Open my eyes and I will gaze at wonders from Your Torah” and “This mound is witness...” which relates how Lavan and Yaakov ...

To add a further point: Regarding the intent motivating the mitzvos, there is more pressing relevance to the above concept [i.e., that even the loftiest truths should be comprehended from the understanding of the ideas in their simple sense,] than regardi...

In this and the following section, the Rebbe correlates the statement of the Rebbe Maharash explained at the end of sec. 4 – that ideally, the Torah’s mystic secrets should be perceived in the course of one’s study of the revealed dimensions of the Torah ...