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==Studying the Books==
==Studying the Books==
The Rebbe referred to ''Torah Ohr'' and ''Likkutei Torah'' as "the [[Oral Torah]] of Chassidus."<ref>Farbrengen, Shabbos Parshas Chayei Sarah, 5752 (unedited) — ''Sichos Kodesh'' 5752, vol. 2, p. 324.</ref> The discourses in these works corresponding to each week's Torah portion he called the ''"Chassidishe Parsha"'' — the Chassidic portion.<ref name="5749">Sefer HaSichos 5749, p. 41, note 29 — [https://beta.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=15991&st=&pgnum=50 online here].</ref>
The Rebbe referred to ''Torah Ohr'' and ''Likkutei Torah'' as "the [[Oral Torah]] of Chassidus."<ref>Farbrengen, Shabbos Parshas Chayei Sarah, 5752 (unedited) — ''Sichos Kodesh'' 5752, vol. 2, p. 324.</ref> The discourses in these works corresponding to each week's Torah portion he called the ''"Chassidishe Parsha"'' — the Chassidic portion.<ref name="5749">Sefer HaSichos 5749, p. 41, note 29 </ref>


The Rebbe repeatedly instructed "that every single person study each week all the discourses in ''Likkutei Torah'' relating to the weekly Torah portion."<ref>[https://chabadlibrary.org/books/admur/tm/13/18/174.htm Farbrengen, Shabbos Parshas Vayeishev, 5715]; and subsequently that same year in ''Toras Menachem'' 5715, vol. 2, pp. 238 ff.; ''Igros Kodesh'', vol. 10, letter 3,250; vol. 11, letter 3,506; ''Hisvaaduyos'' 5744, vol. 2, p. 1302; 5746, vol. 3, p. 388; 5748, vol. 3, p. 81 note 19, p. 344 note 14, p. 517; 5749, vol. 1, p. 315 note 29, p. 321; vol. 2, p. 186; 5752, vol. 1, p. 299; and elsewhere.</ref> He also mentioned a custom among Chassidim of learning a portion of the Chassidic discourses on the parsha together with their sons from the age of bar mitzvah — and even younger — at least superficially.<ref name="5749"/>
The Rebbe repeatedly instructed "that every single person study each week all the discourses in ''Likkutei Torah'' relating to the weekly Torah portion."<ref>[https://chabadlibrary.org/books/admur/tm/13/18/174.htm Farbrengen, Shabbos Parshas Vayeishev, 5715]; and subsequently that same year in ''Toras Menachem'' 5715, vol. 2, pp. 238 ff.; ''Igros Kodesh'', vol. 10, letter 3,250; vol. 11, letter 3,506; ''Hisvaaduyos'' 5744, vol. 2, p. 1302; 5746, vol. 3, p. 388; 5748, vol. 3, p. 81 note 19, p. 344 note 14, p. 517; 5749, vol. 1, p. 315 note 29, p. 321; vol. 2, p. 186; 5752, vol. 1, p. 299; and elsewhere.</ref> He also mentioned a custom among Chassidim of learning a portion of the Chassidic discourses on the parsha together with their sons from the age of bar mitzvah — and even younger — at least superficially.<ref name="5749"/>