The Rebbe held 35 farbrengens on Shabbos Parshas Behar-Bechukosai. The sichos from these farbrengens span close to 1,000 pages in the Yiddish Hanochos (transcripts) in Sichos Kodesh, and 125 pages in the English Hanochos published by Sichos in English.

Each farbrengen is a priceless treasure. It was the highlight of the week for those fortunate to be present when the Rebbe farbrenged. Nowadays, we can live those Shabbos Farbrengens by learning them, continuing to make the Rebbe’s Farbrengens a part of our Shabbos.

To get a taste of these farbrengens (Some selected highlights appear below), visit berel.me/taste/behar-bechukosai to explore this week’s “Taste”. You can download and print it for Shabbos, with curated suggestions for which farbrengen to learn, along with a qr code to access each one.

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May we merit to once again experience a farbrengen with the Rebbe—now!

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Selected excerpts from this edition of the “Taste”

Shabbos Parshas Behar-Bechukosai 5710
An incident by way of illustration: A certain Californian timber dealer once entered the study of my revered father-in-law, the Rebbe [Rayatz], for yechidus. After receiving replies to his business questions he proceeded to ask about the education of his children, but the directive which the Rebbe gave him in reply was not to his liking.

The Rebbe said: “Consider. When it came to the timber business, in which I have never engaged, you traveled a great distance to ask for my advice, but when it comes to the education of your children, which is my occupation (and which was also the occupation of my forebears), you don’t accept my advice?!”

Shabbos Parshas Bechukosai 5710
One of the advantages to learning Chassidus via telephone (and radio) is that the idea of “your wellsprings shall spread forth to the outside” is achieved in a very lofty manner. The purpose of disseminating Chassidus is that the “wellsprings” should reach the “outside,” to the furthest reaches of this corporeal world. Through the telephone, the wellsprings of Chassidus reaches every part of the world instantaneously i.e., transcending the spatial-temporal limits of the world.

Shabbos Parshas Behar 5746
At the same time, there are others who, by Divine Providence, are business people or professionals who must devote the main part of the week to mundane matters of earning a living in whatever field they may be.

These laymen may feel deprived of the opportunity to study Torah and they might argue: “Why should we lose out…?” Why did Divine Providence put the others in the Torah world (similar to the world to come) and us in the business world?”

The answer to these troubled souls:

Take a lesson from Shabbos. The goal is not to rise above the world and remain aloof. The true goal is to raise the mundane weekdays to a level where G-dliness is revealed. Shabbos says that you must see G-dliness even in the weekdays! “The River Sambation will prove it” not only are the business to be able to people equal to scholars, but they also possess a loftier quality reveal the spiritual side of the material (weekday) world!