Torah Ohr · Sefer Shemos · Shabbos March 20
פרשת פרשת זכור
Parshas Parshas Zachor
2 maamarim of the Alter Rebbe on the parsha, in the Hebrew of the Kehot edition, with every marei makom opened right where it appears. Each small section with a faithful English translation and a short explanation.
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The maamarim 2
- זכור את אשר עשה לך עמלק בדרך וגו׳ “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way” Every soul goes out of its own Egypt each day, and Amalek attacks on the way out: the brazen force that cuts the mind off from the heart, so that a person defies what he knows. The way through is the “back” of holiness, accepting G‑d’s yoke and forcing the heart through contemplation, which leads to the “front,” a love of G‑d that is one’s very life and delight; there Amalek has no hold, and G‑d’s Name and Throne become whole.
- ביאור אין השם שלם An Explanation of “The Name Is Not Complete” G‑d’s Name and Throne become complete when the intellect is drawn down into the heart: first back to back, as love the mind compels and service beyond habit, and then face to face, in revealed delight. Amalek is the brazen hardness at the back of the neck that cuts the mind off from the heart; it must be fought every day, until love in delight blots it out.
Learn it in seven days Sunday to Shabbos
The Rebbe asked that all the maamarim of the week’s parsha be learned in that week, spread over its seven days. Here is the parsha in seven portions of about equal length.