It’s about the heart.

Class 14: The concept of “AYIN” is beyond comprehension to us, but INSIGNIFICANT to HIM. Yesh MeAyin – world comes into being every instant – illustrated by 3 stories about tzaddikim davenning for their needs, but yesh M’ayin is only a haarah. Mattan Torah is Atzmus b’giluy in Torah. Yesh HaAmiti – this is the…

Class 68. Class 13: Introduction to the second maamar in this section – Kol Dodi. MATTAN TORAH is the purpose- ANOCHI Yesh Meayin. The first maamar talked about Creation – this one is about yetzius Mitzrayim and Mattan Torah. 2 Ratzons – Pnimius HaRatzon for Torah and Mitzvas, and CHitzonius HaRatzon to create the world…

Class 11: End of perek 4. (6 lines from bottom p 117) Creation is a combination of Memale and Sovev. Memale brings beauty and order, gradualism, yesh miyesh, a finite power. In order to make yesh miayin need an infinite power. Whole seder Hishtalshelus is in one point, a Quantum leap. Sovev kal Almin.

Class 9b: Where in HISHTALSHELUS does SOVEV KOL ALMIN begin? cont. Inside p. 112 8 lines from the bottom. Adam Kadmon is Ratzon d’Ratzon of the world. It contains the will for all the wills. Machshava Hakeduma d’A”K is the beginning of Sovev kal Almin. It is a memutza between Atzmus Ohr Ein Sof and…

Class 7: YESH MIYESH vs. YESH MIAYIN. yeshus from SOVEV (continued). Example for Eila v’Elul is sechel and middos. Each emotion has a separate source in the nefesh, but it is hidden. Use Chochma and Bina to think about something and the emotion passes through the brain and is revealed. Then the brain is no…

8 Perek 3. More proof – RAMBAN, Shlishi HaMedaber. Proof#4: Ramban says that the purpose of the Beis HaMikdash is for the Shechina to rest there. The secret of the Mikdash is that the kovod that rested on Har Sinai also rests in the Beis Hamikdash is a concealed way. At Har Sinai the Voice…

6 Perek 3. Proofs that Atzmus was in the Beis Hamikdash. HaAras Ein Sof Baruch Hu is Ein Sof as it is revealed to something else. Atzmus Ein Sof Baruch Hu is Ein Sof in relation to itself. There are many levels of Ohr Ein Sof. The keli is the determinative factor in the degree…

Part 1 Hemsheichim (Series) – their structure and purpose. Overview of maamarim in general and a hemshech in particular. A Hemshech is a maamar that is way too long to speak at one time so it is broken up in smaller segments, each with its own divrei Hamaskhil (the address of the maamar) and a…

This is an overview of the ma’amar V’Ata Tetzaveh given by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.¹ A key focus of the ma’amar is the role of a Rebbe and specifically the relationship between a Rebbe and Chassidim in our generation. The original pasuk (line) in the parsha Tetzaveh is “Ve’atah tetsaveh et-beney Yisra’el veyikchu eleycha shemen zayit…