Sunday 9 Adar I 5703
Chumash: Tetzaveh, First Parsha with Rashi.
Tehillim: 49-54.
Tanya: Ch. 29. There is yet (p. 123)...coarseness and crassness. (p. 125).
When someone walks the street and thinks words of Mishna or Tanya, or sits in his store with a Chumash or Tehillim - that is more valued today than it was when the streets were bright with the light of Torah. We must not go about in the street with a vacant heart. We must have some Torah memorized, to take with us into the street.
Tuesday Adar Sheini 9 * 5703
Chumash: Vayikra, Shlishi with Rashi.
Tehillim: 49-54.
Tanya: For this purpose (p. 165)...of blessed memory. (p. 165).
In the B'racha Borei Nefashot (p. 95), say Al Kol Ma Shebarata, "Kol" with a Cholam, not a Kamatz.
The intense longing to be bound closely [1] (to a Rebbe) can be satisfied only by learning Maamarim of Chassidus which the Rebbe delivers as oral discourses and writes down; simply seeing him [2] is not enough.
Notes:
On this day, in 5700 (1940), the Previous Rebbe o.b.m. arrived in the U.S.A.
day marks the essential beginning of the `dissemination of the wellsprings (of chassidus) to the outside' in this lower hemisphere"; a quotation - according to the memory of a listener - from the Rebbe Sh'lita, from a Sicha of Shabbat Parshat Tetzaveh, 5745 (1985), in which the great significance and import of the day is explained at length.
See Sivan 24.
Lit. "Beholding his face."