Volume 17 - Vayikra

49 sichos, 27 with English text.

• Vol 17.01 - Vayikra 1Translated

  The Alter Rebbe in the reason that the letter "Alef" in the word "Vayikra" is a small alef(8)

• Vol 17.02 - Vayikra 2

  The reason that the beginning of the section of Korbanot is with the voluntary offerings(7)

• Vol 17.03 - Vayikra 3Translated

  Rashi: "Its blood shall be squeezed out(6)

• Vol 17.04 - Vayikra 4

  Contradiction in Torat Kohanim: "One may offer wood . .Two people do not bring . . wood"(12)

• Vol 17.05 - Vayikra 5Translated

  Rashi: "If a leader [of Israel] sins"(8)

• Vol 17.06 - Tzav 1

  Rashi The differences in Rashi on the words "This is the law" (Zot Torat) (8)

• Vol 17.07 - Tzav 2Translated

  Rashi"A continuous fire". Kindling of the fire of the outer Altar from the fire of the Menorah (7)

• Vol 17.08 - Shabbat HaGadol

  The connection between the miracle (of Shabbat HaGadol) to the theme of Shabbat (9)

• Vol 17.09 - Erev Pesach

  Debate in the Halacha of the Fast of the Firstborn (taanit bechorim) on Erev Pesach that falls on Shabbat; Siyum (5)

• Vol 17.10 - Chag HaPesach 1Synopsis, Links

  Three names to the holday: "Chag HaMatzot", "The time of our redemption (zman Cheiruseinu)", "Chag HaPesach" (7)

• Vol 17.11 - Chag HaPesach 2

  Resolving the expressions (diyukim) and questions on many of the sections in the Hagadah of Pesach (14)

• Vol 17.12 - Shemini 1Translated

  How to connect the natural world with the world beyond this world (8th day) (8)

• Vol 17.13 - Shemini 2

  Rashi: "Carry your kinsmen" Debate if Aharon was required to eat the Sin Offering. Removal of the 'deceased' (9)

• Vol 17.14 - Shemini 3

  Rashi: "And it pleased him. Difference between the reasoning of Moshe and Aharon - Two Worlds (8)

• Vol 17.15 - Shemini 4Translated

  Rashi: "Any creature that goes on its belly" The difference between "Gachon" and "Me'ayim" (8)

• Vol 17.16 - Tazria 1Translated

  Circumcision at night (6)

• Vol 17.17 - Tazria 2

  Siyum of tractate Kinim. "The elders of the simple folk etc and the elders of the Sages" (10)

• Vol 17.18 - Tazria 3Translated

  Law of a Metzora that entered a house according to Torat Levi Yitzchak. Daughters lighting Shabbat Candles (7)

• Vol 17.19 - Tazria - Parshat HaChodeshTranslated

  "HaChodesh" - Geulah from Above, and "Wnen a woman conceives" - Avodah from below (9)

• Vol 17.20 - Metzora 1

  Rashi (Lev. 14:14) "the cartilage etc.". Rashi's intent in "but the interpreters call it tendron" (9)

• Vol 17.21 - Metzora 2Translated

  Rashi (Lev. 15.12) s.v. "An earthenware vessel which the zov will touch". A Jew's essence remains pure.(6)

• Vol 17.22 - Acharei 1Links

  "his 'house' means his 'wife'". Discussion regarding the Din that a Kohen Gadol on Yom Kippur must be married (10)

• Vol 17.23 - Acharei 2

  Siyum of tractate Yoma. One who experienced a [night-] pollution on the Day of Atonement etc (11)

• Vol 17.24 - Acharei 3Translated

  "For we have all sinned...This is the essence of the confessional prayer." (Rambam) (12)

• Vol 17.25 - Kedoshim 1

  "Whoever steals is as if he worships idols" (10)

• Vol 17.26 - Kedoshim 2Links

  Rashi: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself: This is a fundamental principle of the Torah" (10)

• Vol 17.27 - Kedoshim 3Translated

  The reason that Rambam prefaced the laws of Kelaim to the laws of Peah (7)

• Vol 17.28 - Kedoshim 4

  When a youth nine years old engages in relations with a shifchah charufah (10)

• Vol 17.29 - Emor 1Links

  Rashi: "[For] six days [work may be performed but on the seventh day, it is a complete rest day]"(6)

• Vol 17.30 - Emor 2

  Rashi: "in all your dwelling places"(7)

• Vol 17.31 - Emor 3

  Rashi: "When you reap"(12)

• Vol 17.32 - Emor 4

  Rambam "There was an additional celebration in the Temple on the festival of Sukkot"(9)

• Vol 17.33 - Behar 1

  Rashi: "On Mount Sinai": What has the matter of the Sabbatical year etc. (10)

• Vol 17.34 - Behar 2

  Debate whether the resting of the land is a law pertaining to the land or just an obligation of the person (11)

• Vol 17.35 - Behar 3

  "The closer the relatives, the greater the responsibility" to redeem a person sold to a gentile (6)

• Vol 17.36 - Behar - Lag B'OmerTranslated

  The saying of Rashbi: "There are three crowns etc" (10)

• Vol 17.37 - Bechukotai 1

  Rashi: "If you follow My statutes". The innovation in: "you should labor in [studying] Torah" (8)

• Vol 17.38 - Bechukotai 2Translated

  Rashi: "I will turn to you" - I will turn from all of My dealings to pay your reward (11)

• Vol 17.39 - Bechukotai 3

  The connection between first-born and and tithe of animals (end of the Parsha) to the beginning of the Parsha (11)

• Vol 17.40 - Kol Yisroel

  The connection of this Mishnah to the saying of Pirkei Avot.

• Vol 17.41 - Pirkei Avot Chapter 1

  Mishnah 15: " Shammai would say: Make your Torah study a permanent fixture of your life. Say little and do much etc"

• Vol 17.42 - Pirkei Avot Chapter 2

  Mishnah 13: "Rabbi Shimon would say: Be meticulous with the reading of the Shma and with prayer etc."

• Vol 17.43 - Pirkei Avot Chapter 3

  Mishnah 2: "Pray for the integrity of the government; for were it not for the fear etc man would swallow his neighbor alive"

• Vol 17.44 - Pirkei Avot Chapter 4

  Mishnah 2: "Ben Azzai would say: Run to pursue a minor Mitzvah"

• Vol 17.46 - Pirkei Avot Chapter 5 (Mishneh 6)

  Mishnah 6: "Ten things were created at twilight of Shabbat eve etc. And some say also the spirits of destruction as well as the original tongs"

• Vol 17.45 - Pirkei Avot Chapter 5 (Mishneh 21)

  Mishnah 21: Siyum of tractate Avot: "Ben Hei Hei would say: According to the pain is the gain"

• Vol 17.46 - Pirkei Avot Chapter 6

  Mishnah 1: "Rabbi Meir would say: Whoever studies Torah for Torah's sake alone, merits many things"

• Vol 17.47 - R' Chananiah ben Akashiah

  The connection of the saying of Rabbi Chananiah ben Akashiah to the reciting of Pirkei Avot.

• Vol 17.40 - Hosafot - Supplement

  Vayikra - TOC Complete