The Alter Rebbe on the parsha — and the nekudos he never printed
My Likkutei Torah opens the Alter Rebbe's maamarim on Vayikra, Bamidbar and Devarim: 38 sections and 291 maamarim, including Shir HaShirim, the yom-tov drushim and the Supplements. It opens on THIS WEEK'S parsha without being asked, and for half the year, when the weekly parsha has no section in this sefer, it says so and opens Vayikra rather than sending you to a ref that does not exist. The sefer is printed without nekudos and Sefaria carries it that way — 12,874 paragraphs with six points between them — so the app supplies them, section by section, and hands the printed text back untouched the moment they do not line up word for word.
הִנֵּהbeholdכָּלallהֶחֳדָשִׁיםthe monthsנִקְרְאוּare calledחָדְשֵׁיthe months ofהַשָּׁנָהthe year
Likkutei Torah · Rosh Hashanah
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הִנֵּהbeholdכָּלallהֶחֳדָשִׁיםthe months
What it does
This week's maamar, already open
The app resolves the weekly parsha and maps it onto Sefaria's own spelling of the section, which is not always the one the rest of the app uses — Sh'lach, Beha'alotcha, Ki Teitzei, Ki Tavo. Where this week's parsha has no section in Likkutei Torah, it opens Vayikra and says that is what it did.
Every section the sefer actually has
38 sections and 291 maamarim, read out of Sefaria's own merged Hebrew export rather than typed from a contents page — which is why the list includes Shir HaShirim, Rosh Hashanah, Shabbos Shuvah, Yom Kippur, Sukkos, Shemini Atzeres and the Supplements, and why no section name here 404s at the reader.
Nekudos the printed sefer does not have
Rosh Hashanah and Ki Tavo are pointed today, 57 paragraphs between them, and the list grows a section at a time. The points are ADDED — a reading somebody supplied, never a change to what Sefaria sends — and the reader pairs them word for word and falls back to the printed text the instant they do not match. A section with no entry reads exactly as it always has.
The same reader as every other sefer
Interlinear, Shoresh, Dikduk, vowels, English, one column or side by side, and the font ladder — the identical toolbar the Siddur, Chumash, Tanya and Rambam carry, with the choices remembered.
Read a maamar aloud
The Practice tab builds its word list from the maamar on screen, so the voice analyzer listens to the text you are actually holding rather than a fixed passage.
Who it's for — For a bochur or a baal habos who learns the parsha's maamar and has been stopped by a page of unpointed Hebrew — and for anyone who wants the English under the words while they read it. Part of Plus and up, on the all-texts feature — the same tier as My Tanya and My Sichas.
