Shabbat Tevet 4 5703
Torah Lessons (5703)	Chumash: Mikeitz, Shevi'i with Rashi. Tehillim: 23-28. Tanya: Ch. 5. Let us explain (p. 17)...in Peri Etz Chayim.) (p. 21).

The Rebbes of Chabad would review a parsha[1] or two of the weekly Sedra on Thursday night.

On Friday afternoon they began again from the start and completed the Sedra and Haftora. Shabbat morning before davening they reviewed from Shevi'i to the end again. When there were two Haftorot they said the one of the Sedra[2] on Friday and the other (for Rosh Chodesh, Machar Chodesh, etc.), on Shabbat.

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There are good dreams in which Torah subjects are made known to the person dreaming.[3]

These generally occur through concentrated devotion to Torah study during the day. When someone studies Torah with great diligence or engages in "service of the heart" - prayer[4] - with intense effort, then at night - when his soul ascends[5] to draw forth life for itself from the supernal Life, as explained in Zohar[6] -it is informed of novellae in Revealed Torah or Inner Torah,[7] each person according to his diligence in his Avoda during the day.

   

Notes:

1. (Back to text) In accordance with the practice of reciting each Sedra twice and the Onkelos translation into Aramaic once, and studying the Sedra with Rashi's commentary.

2. (Back to text) Haftora: The portion from the Prophets read after the Torah-reading, and relevant to the Sedra of the week or to the special occasion of that Shabbat.

3. (Back to text) The notation for the day is relevant to the Sedra describing Pharaoh's dreams. "Good" dreams are not fortuitous but result from one's activities and efforts during waking hours.

4. (Back to text) The Talmud (Taanit 2a) defines "service of the heart" Tefilla - Davening.

5. (Back to text) See Supplementary Footnotes, (p. 124 in the published version).

6. (Back to text) Viz. Zohar III, p. 25a, et seq.

7. (Back to text) See "On the Teachings of Chassidus," Kehot.