<span style="color: rgb(47, 76, 90); font-family: Signika; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">This class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Metzora, 16 Nissan, 5784, April 16, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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The 4 Cups and 4 Sons Are Four Steps to Emotional Liberation: My Divine Soul, My Animal Soul, Seeing Through the Facade, Emancipation From My Brainy Self

Women's Pesach Class

How We Develop Our Coping Mechanisms and How We Set Ourselves Free

<p style="color: rgb(47, 76, 90); font-family: Signika; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">This class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Tazria, 1 Nissan, 5784, April 9, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.
<p style="color: rgb(47, 76, 90); font-family: Signika; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: justify;">Who are the four children of the Haggadah? What&rsquo;s this great hullabaloo about them? Why four and not five, six, or ten? Why are they central to our Passover experience? What are their questions, and why are these questions so important?
<p style="color: rgb(47, 76, 90); font-family: Signika; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: justify;">The premise to answering these questions is that the four children are not external to us; they are within each of us: Within each of our hearts, there are &ldquo;four children&rdquo; who ask four distinct questions.&nbsp;
<p style="color: rgb(47, 76, 90); font-family: Signika; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: justify;">What are four big&nbsp;questions on Judaism? 1) The strange laws that we simply cannot wrap our brains ahead. 2) How can small people believe that G-d cares about their lives and actions, especially in a painful and scary universe? 3) I lead my own life and define my destiny; I don&rsquo;t need G-d. 4) I don&rsquo;t care.
<p style="color: rgb(47, 76, 90); font-family: Signika; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: justify;">The Haggadah addresses each of these four powerful questions, with which each of us struggles in one way or another.
<p style="color: rgb(47, 76, 90); font-family: Signika; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: justify;">Erev Pesach in Bergen Belzen. The Bloshever Rebbe sacrificed his life to obtain matzah. But when the Nazis discovered the matzah bakery, all was gone besides a few matzos. He decided the elderly would get them. Until a woman's voice was heard: &ldquo;Binaranu ubezkananu,&rdquo; the youth must come first.

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Our Children Are Asking the Questions We All Struggle With Internally

Can You Be Grateful for Each of Your ‘Four Children’? Can You Listen to the 4 Children Inside of You?

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What They Did With the Ashes on the Altar Teaches Us What to Do with Our Darker Sides

Tzav Women's Class

How You Can Use Your Darkness to Light up the World

This class was&nbsp;presented on Tuesday, Parshas Vayikra, 9&nbsp;Adar II, 5784, March 19, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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The Untold Purim Story: The First Female Abuse Victim Who Dared to Speak Out

Purim Women's Class

How Queen Esther’s Banner of Pride Can Transform Every Victim’s Narrative

This class was&nbsp;presented on Tuesday, Parshas Pekudei,&nbsp;25&nbsp;Adar II, 5784, March 12, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

In one of the most bizarre Talmudic stories (Megilah 7b), two of the greatest Talmudic sages feast on Purim together. They are inebriated and one of them slaughters his friend. The next day he brings him back to life. The following year he invites his colleague for another Purim meal.

This fascinating class, based on an address of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, re-invents the meaning of the story, and applies it to our daily opportunity to link heaven and earth.&nbsp;

Purim represents the gift to experience an ego-death, the portal to true inner connection and bliss. 

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rabah

reb zeira

modzhitz

drinking on purim

death of ego

How Do I Find Bliss in My Challenging Life? On Purim, Two Sages Provided the Answer

Women's Purim Class

The Most INSANE Purim Story: When Rabah “Slaughtered” the Ego of Reb Zeira

This class was&nbsp;presented on Tuesday, Parshas Vayakhel, Parshas Shekalim, 25&nbsp;Adar I, 5784, March 5, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

This Sabbath, Jews the world over will read, in addition to the weekly Torah portion, an extra Torah portion, known as Parshas Shekalim, or the &quot;portion of the coins.&quot;

This section of the Torah records the mitzvah incumbent upon the people of Israel, to make a yearly contribution of a half shekel to cover the cost of all communal Temple offerings. A shekel was a specific weight of silver (about 16 grams) that was the standard coinage used by the Jews in the desert. The Jewish people were instructed to contribute a half-shekel coin, which was a silver coin weighing about 8&nbsp;grams, to the Temple. 
 
The Torah is extremely particular about the amount of the contribution: &quot;The wealthy shall not increase and the destitute shall not decrease from half a shekel.&quot; I do not think there was ever again in Jewish history an appeal made setting a limit to the contributions of the rich!

What is baffling about this mitzvah&nbsp;is the Torah&#39;s insistence that the contribution consist of a half-coin, rather than a whole, complete coin. Why would G-d instruct the Jewish people to give a contribution that is not complete? Especially considering that the Torah demands all elements connected to the Temple service be as complete and perfect as possible. 

In his final address, two days before he suffered a stroke, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, presented a profound explanation. This was Shabbos Vayakhel, 25 Adar I, 5752 (1992). It explored the question if a human being in his deepest place&nbsp;is a lonely creature, struggling with a mysterious and complex self in a way that nobody else can really understand or appreciate?&nbsp; 
 
Many philosophical and spiritual disciplines eloquently describe the sense of solitariness that comes hand in hand with one&#39;s journey into the inner chambers of the self. The deeper you go, the lonelier you become.&nbsp;But the Rebbe presented a very different view, one which helps teach us how to live with love and joy, despite the pain and disappointment.&nbsp;

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Why Is It So Hard to Serve G-d With Bliss? How to Love Your (True) Self & the Other

Parshas Shekalim Women's Class

The Last Lecture of the Lubavitcher Rebbe: How to Love

This Women&#39;s class was&nbsp;presented on Tuesday, Parshas Ki Sisa, 18 Adar I, 5784, February 27, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

In the conversation between Hashem and Moshe after the sin of the Golden Calf, G-d says something shocking: &ldquo;On the day I make an accounting, I will bring their sin to account against them.&rdquo;

G-d, it seems, is telling Moses He will never forget this sin. And whenever He is going to make an accounting, this sin will be included in the &ldquo;package.&rdquo; 

This is deeply enigmatic. It is one of the foundations of Judaism that Teshuvah, repentance, atones for all sins and wipes them away completely. Every Yom Kippur, we declare that Hashem &ldquo;removes our sins every year again.&rdquo; No matter how many times we commit a sin, if we repent, we are forgiven. Teshuvah removes all guilt. It&rsquo;s over. Yet here we are told that G-d will never let go of this transgression? 

The most marvelous answer was presented by the famed Chassidic master and one of the greatest lovers of Israel, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchov (1740-1809). In a daring interpretation, classic to the Chassidic approach toward Judaism, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak becomes the great &ldquo;advocate&rdquo; for the Jewish people, as he always was.

The class explores two models of education, one based on outer behavior and control, and the other one on connection and trust, and developing an internal relationship which allows a child to feel understood and empowered. We focus on the need to appreciate our successes, not only our failures.

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The Beauty of the Golden Calf: When G-d "Learnt" Not to Take His People for Granted

Women's Ki Sisa Class

Can You Give Yourself A Standing Ovation for Showing Up?  Learning to Appreciate Ourselves

This class was&nbsp;presented on Tuesday, Parshas Tetzaveh, 11&nbsp;Adar I, 5784, February 20, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

The class explores the end of the Code of Jewish Law on the availability of constant bliss, the joy of the month of Adar, and the grief of the month of Av. We explore the enigmatic Talmudic story of Reb Akiva&#39;s visit to Rome and why he laughed, the explanation of the Alter Rebbe on bliss and pain, and the exchange between the Rebbe and Eli Wiesel on the question of the Holocaust, and why Jews have not lost their faith, even in the face of such adversity.

We finally explain how pain and joy merge together in the profoundest experience of the soul&#39;s bliss.

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reb akiva

eli wiesel

pleasure

bliss

Why Didn’t Jews Lose Their Faith? Reb Akiva, Eli Wiesel, and the Rebbe

Adar/Purim Katan Women's Class/Joy

How to Live in Bliss: If I Can’t Feel the Pain, I Can’t Feel the Joy 

This class was&nbsp;presented on Tuesday, Parshas Mishpatim, 27 Shvat, 5784, February 6, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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unpaid constodian

four guardians

shomer chinam

The Unpaid Guardian & the Bliss in Letting Go of My Ego Entirely

Women's Mishpatim Class

Why Do I Crave Compliments? Why Does My Ego Require Constant Resuscitation?

This class was&nbsp;presented on Tuesday, Parshas Yisro, 20 Shvat, 5784, January 30, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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amalek

jewish survival

yisro

anti semitism

jewish history

Three Truths that Inspired Yisro to Join Israel

Yisro Women's Class/ Israel-Hamas War

Why You Should Be a Proud Jew Today: Crash Course on Jewish History

<span style="color: rgb(47, 76, 90); font-family: Signika; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">This class will be presented on Tuesday, Parshas Kedoshim, 29 Nissan, 5784, May 7, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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Womens class

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Tuesday Women's Class

Tuesday, May 7, 9:30 am

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