The last maamar that the Frierdiker Rebbe gave out to learn before his histalkus on Yud Shevat was the maamar Bosi Legani, which has twenty se’ifim.

Every year on Yud Shevat, the Rebbe would say a maamar based on one se’if of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s maamar. Since then, every year we continue this pattern, learning the Rebbe’s explanations on one se’if, in order.

This year, we learn the Rebbe’s maamorim on the thirteenth se’if, which were said in Tof-Shin-Chof-Gimmel and Tof-Shin-Mem-Gimmel.

One of the things we learn about in this year’s se’if is how Hashem’s chayus reaches even the lowest part of the world, “Ohr Ein Sof Lemata Mata Ad Ein Tachlis.”

In the maamar of Tof-Shin-Mem-Gimmel, the Rebbe explains this se’if.

Here is a little taste of what is explained in the Maamar.

A lot of the world Hashem created is very beautiful! There are mountains and flowers and waterfalls and streams. But there are also many things that don’t look very beautiful. There are lots of dirty or disgusting things that we don’t like to look at, think about, or smell! There are aveiros that people do and like to show other people. There are websites and videos and songs that talk about things that are not appropriate and not very nice.

When we think about that, we might have two big questions:

1) Where do these things come from? We learn that Hashem looked inside of the Torah and made the world to look the way the Torah says. But the Torah isn’t full of such yucky stuff! Or is it?

2) We know that our shlichus in the world is to use the world and fix it up. But what do we do with all of these parts of the world? Should we look at the yucky stuff and then decide if we should use it or not? If we do, we might end up doing aveiros chas veshalom! And if we don’t, how can we fix it?

The Rebbe explains in the maamar that there are many parts of Kabbalah that speak about all of the kinds of Kelipah in the world and how they were created. In fact, the seforim talk about all of these Kelipos with so much detail that we might wonder why we even need to know about it!

All of the disgusting parts of the world are connected to these different Kelipos.

And that’s the answer to both of our questions.

Where do these things come from?

Hashem looked at the Torah — and looks at it every moment — to create the world, and that’s why we have even parts of the world that are not very nice.

And how do we fix them?

The way to fix all of these yucky parts of the world is not to go look at them and try them all! Instead, we learn Kabbalah and Chassidus about the Kelipos with all of their details and that fixes up even the lowest parts of the world and makes it a comfortable place for Hashem!