Class One. יפה תואר ויפה מראה Outer Beauty- Mitzvos Asei. Inner beauty- Mitzvos Lo Taase. It is about balance. Class Two. כשחסר ביפה תואר ויפה מראה משלימים החסר בתשובה וקבלת עול. When things are off balance, we compensate with higher than balance. Two anomalies about Purim that reveal this: 1) We are called יהודים- a…

Shabbos HaGadol.

After all Birurim (separating the entanglement of Kedusha and klipa), and the Aliya (elevating into holiness) there remains an additional aliya (“Eating the already eaten [elevated]), that will happen le’asid. Aharon (Kohanim) have this idea right now in their korbonos.

Why אורה is feminine: it is receiving inspiration from higher than אור/ תורה and therefore reaches lower. Like the ה’ה added to אברהם אבינו’s name raising him higher and bringing him lower. שמחה reveals this higher Torah. These two are חכמה ובינה and are secured through Davening with Ahava and followed by יפוצו מעינותיך חוצה….

Class One. We have five separate Souls, not one Soul with five parts. The significance of this is that each Soul has an aspect beyond the ‘Hishtalshelus’ of the Neshama from Moach to Lev to Asiya. He explains the essence element in Neshama, Ruach and Nefesh as well as the Hiskalelus between the levels. Class…

Sleep and awakeness as it is in the person is mirrored on high. In Golus as Yidden sleep the Shchina sleeps but when Yidden awake so does the Shchina.

Class One. Sleep is an analogy for Galus. Everything is functioning but there is confusion, no limit, order, division. In this Ma’amar the Rebbe explains (the Frierdike Rebbe’s Ma’amar from 5700), in this way: When there is Shina (sleep) the kochos go back into the Etzem where they are on a higher level. It is…

Lo Yichra Vlo Yishtachave The lesson of Purim: Jews are different and they must be proud to be different. (1) Example from the failure of the reform (2) Example from the failing Nationalistic (Zionist) idea.

The basic theme of Purim is 1) לא יכרע ולא ישתחווה 2) ישנו עם אחד. Jewish people are different in essence and trying to be like everybody else never really works.