באתי לגני ה’תשמ”ב

Class One. Introduction, the basis of this Ma’amar is a teaching from the Ba’al shem tov and the Alter Rebbe. We learned the beginning. Iskafia makes Dira Bitachtonim through Hisbonenus. The Dira begins in the Jewish heart which gives בנדיבות לב to purchase and create a physical Mikdash.

Class Two. This class studies the Perek 12 and focuses on two aspects of the Perek: 1) The Previous Rebbe avoids discussing the first Tzimtzum (סילוק) and focuses instead on the many steps of reducing the light (מיעוט) that reaches the world. In other words, he focuses on a (series of) Tzimtzum(im) that both limits and reveals (and doesn’t remove altogether). 2) The Previous Rebbe calls it Tzimtzum (in singular) though there are so many such Tzitzumim. He explains that the reason for this, is because he wishes to bring out the point that there may be many Tzimtzums but there is only one Tzimtzumer (Doer of these Tzimtzumim) and this is Hashem, who is revealed Himself because of these Tzimtzumim events. Thus in the Hishtalshelus and Tzimtzumim one meets Atzmus!!!