Editing Weekly Torah Portion (section)

== Living with the Times ==
In his early years of leadership, the Alter Rebbe would publicly say that "one must live with the times." Through his brother, the Maharil, the elder Chassidim discovered that the Rebbe meant: one should 'live' with Weekly Torah Portion and the daily portion of the weekly parsha. Not just to learn the weekly Torah portion each day, but to 'live' with it. Later, in connection with this saying, the Rebbe Rayatz established as part of the Chitas regimen, the daily study of a portion of the parsha with Rashi's commentary.

On many occasions, the Rebbe connected the weekly Torah portion to the date in the year and/or to events that occurred at that time. This is based on the words of the Shelah (in his book, at the beginning of Parshat Vayeshev) that the holidays of the year have a special connection also to the parsha in which they fall.