ÿþ<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <link rel="File-List" href="Lech_Lecha_files/filelist.xml"> <title>B</title> <style> <!-- table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-parent:""; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; } p.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; vertical-align:sub; margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in} --> </style> <!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* { behavior: url(#default#VML) } o\:* { behavior: url(#default#VML) } .shape { behavior: url(#default#VML) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <xml><o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1027"/> </xml><![endif]--> </head> <body> <div style="position: absolute; width: 561px; height: 100px; z-index: 1; left: 27px; top: 44px" id="layer1"> <div align="center"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width: 100.0%" id="table1"> <tr> <td style="padding: 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #004F9D; vertical-align: baseline"> &nbsp;B&quot;H</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <div style="position: absolute; width: 62px; height: 48px; z-index: 1; left: -8px; top: 18px" id="layer2"> <a target="_top" href="../../../main2.htm"> <font color="#172F60" style="font-size: 11pt" face="Arial"> <img border="0" src="../../../back.gif" width="67" height="39"></font></a></div> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #004F9D; vertical-align: baseline"> Lech Lecha</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #004F9D; vertical-align: baseline"> Chassidic CPR</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"> <span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_s1025" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" style='width:.75pt; height:2.25pt'> <v:imagedata src="Lech_Lecha_files/image001.gif" o:href="http://www.chabad.org/images/global/spacer.gif"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=1 height=3 src="Lech_Lecha_files/image002.gif" v:shapes="_x0000_s1025"><![endif]></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width: 100.0%; padding: 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%"><b> <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 125%; font-family: Arial; font-variant: small-caps; color: #003366; vertical-align: baseline"> And He breathed into his nostrils a spirit of life (2:7)</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%"> <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 125%; color: #003366; vertical-align: baseline"> In 1772, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi founded Chabad Chassidism. &#39;Chabad&#39; is an all-embracing world outlook and way of life in which the intellect plays a key role in man&#39;s service of the Creator. The mind is trained to exert its innate sovereignty over the &#39;small world&#39; that is man: by using his intellect to comprehend and relate to the reality of G-d, a person develops feelings of love and awe towards the Creator, refines the his character, and perfects his behavior.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%"> <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 125%; color: #003366; vertical-align: baseline"> The bar mitzvah of Rabbi Schneur Zalman&#39;s eldest son, Rabbi DovBer, was on Thursday, the 9th of Kislev 5547 (November 30 1786). Many guests came to Liozna for the event and the festive chassidic gatherings, (&#39;farbrengens&#39;) lasted throughout the week.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%"> <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 125%; color: #003366; vertical-align: baseline"> A group of farbrenging chassidim were discussing the era of <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.chabad.org/article.htm/AID/332562"> <span style="color: #003366">Moshiach</span></a> and the destined resurrection of the dead when one of them remarked:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%"> <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 125%; color: #003366; vertical-align: baseline"> &quot;Our Rebbe revives the dead. What is a corpse? Something cold and unfeeling. Life is movement, warmth, excitement. Is their anything as frozen in self-absorption, as cold and unfeeling as the mind? And when the cold-blooded mind understands, comprehends, and is excited by a G-dly idea - is this not a revival of the dead?!&quot;</span></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p>&nbsp;</div> </body> </html>