Rabbi Shmuel Wagner
Rabbi Shmuel Wagner
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Rabbi Shmuel Wagner is a teacher and maggid shiur in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Here are the recordings of his weekly Chassidus shiur, delivered in Congregation Ohel Nosson on Sunday mornings. With an emphasis on clarity, context, and application, Rabbi Wagner's Chassidus Explained is "Chassidus that Speaks Your Language"!
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Padah Beshalom 5722 part 1/4 (Se'if 1-2)
Padah Beshalom 5722 part 1/4 (Se'if 1-2)
Nov 13, 2023
46:25
As we begin this מאמר, the רבי quotes the paradox of the words "פדה בשלום" - to peace, or not to peace? The explanation of the earlier מאמרים is, although usually Davening is an עבודה of war; of investing oneself into an intimate conversation with the נפש הבהמית, if it is done with the power of יחידה, there is but one guaranteed outcome - victory!
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Vayomer Lo Yehonasan 5745 part 1/2 (Se'if 1-5)
Vayomer Lo Yehonasan 5745 part 1/2 (Se'if 1-5)
Nov 25, 2024
51:09
In this מאמר, the רבי explores the foundation of the relationship between a משפיע and a מקבל, uncovering that in addition to the ביטול of ראש חודש - the מקבל receiving from the משפיע, there is also the "ויאמר לו יהונתן מחר חודש" - the מקבל becoming a מקבל from the משפיע.
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Shir Hama'alos Mima'amakim 5748
Shir Hama'alos Mima'amakim 5748
Oct 7, 2024
35:44
In this 1-week מאמר, we learn how the רבי uncovers the depth(s) of תשובה: Through uncovering one's inner Essence and discovering a new way of living life one reaches the very Essence of all existence.
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Lehavin Inyan Simchas Torah 5738
Lehavin Inyan Simchas Torah 5738
Oct 15, 2024
54:21
In this historic מאמר, said two days after the heart attack of שמיני עצרת in 5738 (1977), the רבי explains the core power of שמחת תורה, specifically as it follows the theme of יום כיפור and all of תשרי: less of celebrating the intellectual elements of תורה learning, and more of celebrating the oneness of אידן as they supersede סדר השתלתשות. In the beginning of the שיעור, we talk about the fascinating lesson we can take from this מאמר and that year's שמיני עצרת to help us rejoice on שמיני עצרת following the horrific attacks of שמיני עצרת תשפ"ד/October 07 2023.
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Vayihyu Chayei Sarah 5741 part 1/3 (Se'if 1-3)
Vayihyu Chayei Sarah 5741 part 1/3 (Se'if 1-3)
Nov 3, 2024
41:28
In this מאמר - the רבי's fundamental מאמר on joy - we begin by introducing שרה אמנו's unique quality of being able to elevate this world without being effected by it. Being our matriarch, her life empowers ours. In what way? We begin exploring joy, and why it is crucial. How could joy come with - and from - humility. Stay tuned...
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Vayihyu Chayei Sarah 5741 part 2/3 (Se'if 4-6)
Vayihyu Chayei Sarah 5741 part 2/3 (Se'if 4-6)
Nov 10, 2024
47:41
How do joy and humility work together? Well, what is humility? Only through getting unstuck from one's own self can one experience - yes, experience! - true joy. That was the uniqueness of שרה's life, and with that she fixed the problem of experienced joy that חוה and נח got stuck in.
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Vayihyu Chayei Sarah 5741 part 3/3 (Se'if 7-11)
Vayihyu Chayei Sarah 5741 part 3/3 (Se'if 7-11)
Nov 20, 2024
45:02
Finishing the מאמר, we use the new understanding of שמחה and ביטול to understand the זהר on the פסוק of שרה's life: The reason why שרה was able to own her life was because she was an embodiment of true שמחה as it comes from ביטול. This is the lesson - and the empowerment! - to us all: Through ביטול, we can express our joy, we can feel our joy, and we can enjoy our joy, always connected to Hashem!
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Vayechi Yaakov 5747
Vayechi Yaakov 5747
Jan 6, 2025
50:21
How could it be that the apex of יעקב's life was specifically the 17 years he lived in מצרים?! Hashem's Desire is to have a home in the spiritually lowest of places. Globally, that is מצרים. Psychologically, within every person, that is one's emotions. When יעקב refined מצרים, he had the ultimate completion of his life. When we refine our emotions, we reveal Hashem's Presence throughout the entirety of סדר השתלשלות. This is hinted in the פסוק's enumeration of יעקב's years, "Seven years, and forty and one hundred years".
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Ve'al Hanissim 5729
Ve'al Hanissim 5729
Dec 25, 2024
1:00:47
The רבי explains the fundamental war between the Greeks and the Jews in the חנוכה story: While the Greeks appreciated rational religion, and even a rational commitment to the superrational, the Jews fought for their staunch commitment to Hashem's תורה and מצות stemming from a place of His רצון. While we indeed fulfill מצות with געשמאק (like משפטים), it comes from a place of irrational commitment (like חוקים). This is connected to the "horn" that the Greeks wanted to turn the Jews into, but specifically with the power of the "horn" (עצם) did the Jews stubbornly fight back. Happy Chanukah!
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Omar Rabbi Oshaya 5739 part 2/2 (Se'if 5-9)
Omar Rabbi Oshaya 5739 part 2/2 (Se'if 5-9)
Dec 20, 2024
48:40
The רבי shows two ways how the abstract נקודה of יראת שמים becomes the fuel for the specific actions throughout our day. Through revealing our יראת שמים in the separate actions, we uncover a deeper essence of our נשמה, and this is the answer to the question we had on the פזר-פרז word play. The connection that every איד has with a fellow איד comes from this deep level as well.