Classes

Class Thirty Four in Section Four of The Source

בלילה ההוא ה’תשכ”ה cont. The Purim story is explained based on this new idea. בלילה ההוא is lower than בלילה הזה but it has a higher a source. From the level of בלילה ההוא in its source the miracle of Purim came to be.

Class Thirty Five in Section Four of The Source

The Avodah of המאור הוא בהתגלות part 1. The Rebbe introduces us to the notion that the Ba’al SHem Tov’s ואתה קדוש יושב תהילות ישראל isn’t the same as לאתקנא רזא דשמיא or לשם יחוד קוב”ה ושכנתי’ה because ti is to עצמות שהוא בהתגלות!

Class Thirty Seven in Section Four of The Source

The Avodah of המאור הוא בהתגלות part 3. The two levels of המאור הוא בהתגלות: as he is not affecting the מקום and how He touches the reality of “worlds” מקום (?) in a revealed way.

Class Thirty Eight in Section Four of The Source

The Avodah of המאור הוא בהתגלות part 4. Today we read the entire paragraph inside. The text leaves room for some question on how we understand it. But for the most part it appears that שם שמים שגור בפי כל regarding המאור הוא בהתגלות is different than המשת אור בכלי.

Class Thirty Nine in Section Four of The Source

The Avodah of המאור הוא בהתגלות part 5. Explaining the idea of Maor BiHisgalus being affected by praising Hashem about matters of Gashmiyus. Preface: מאמר ושבתי בשלום ה’תשל”ח introduces the idea that כל מעשיך יהיו לשם שמים and בכל דרכיך דעיהו are higher than Torah and Mitzvos because they are a lower תחתון. דרך אגב…

Class Forty in Section Four of The Source

The Avodah of המאור הוא בהתגלות part 6. The external world is also G-d’s. Revealing this (G-dliness in eating drinking etc.) isn’t achieved by changing it (as we do when we do Mitzvos) but by thanking Him for it, then the “space” of the world is affected by the fact that he is fully revealed,…

Class Fifteen in Section Two of the mind

The RaMbaM and the RaAvaD on the question of Hashem having a body or a form, what did the RaAvaD mean?

Class Sixteen in Section Two of the mind

If you think of Hashem anthropomorphically as a child does: with simplicity, it is not a crime at all.

Class Seventeen in Section Two of the mind

Hashem’s hands and feet. The RaMbaM in his introduction to the More’ explains why the Torah seems simplistic, because it speaks first to the masses and only hints for the greater scholar, because the point of Torah is people should do good actions. It expects the smart people to figure it out on their own

Class Eighteen in Section Two of the mind

History (again) of Chakira vs. Kabbalah and the question of “the mind of the child”- לדעת זה התינוק.

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