Vayedaber Elokim 5728

The Alef Kabbala Group (11 May 2010) explored a discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe said in 1968 on Shavuot. The discourse focuses on the words at the beginning of the Ten Commandments "And G-d spoke all these words saying..". Rashi tells us this was a kind of introduction in which all the Ten Commandments were said at once; then they were repeated one by one. Another explanation is that this 'introduction' included the teachings of the entire Torah throughout the generations. Discussion of these comments leads to a general theme of the 'general summary' followed by the 'particular details', as applied to Torah, to Creation, to the Sefirot, to the process of teaching and to life.