Sunday Sh'vat 18 5703
Torah Lessons (5703)	Chumash: Yitro, First Parsha with Rashi. Tehillim: 88-89. Tanya: Ch. 23. In the light (p. 93)...clothed in the worlds. (p. 93).

The Tzemach Tzedek told his son, my grandfather, that the Maamar Umareihem Uma'asseihem Torah Or, Yitro, is the first discourse the Maggid delivered when he assumed leadership of the chassidim, on Shavuot 5521 (1761).

The Alter Rebbe heard the Maamar from R. Mendel Horodoker, [1] author of Pri Haaretz, who had been present that Shavuot in 5521. However, the Alter Rebbe expounded the Maamar in his own style.

   

Notes:

1. (Back to text) See "Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi," index on "Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk."