Class One. 1) Moshe gives instructions the day after Yom Kippur about correcting the sin of the Golden Calf. This requires total Bitul of the Avoda Zara idea on all levels. This is achieved by a totally indifferent attitude toward Parnassa, which makes Parnassa something we do only because we MUST and accordingly one does…

The word זה can only really refer to Hashem Himself, because in everything He is the true substance of it. However, the word זה is also used for G-Dliness because of its דביקות, attachedness to Him. To be sure קליפה is also called (occasionally) זה לעומת זה, because it only exists to challenge Yidden to…

1) Defiance, 2) Principle, 3) Sacrifice, 4) Action.

This one class encompasses the entire unedited version of this מאמר Four points: 1) ואתה תצוה in this case משה is the point: to strengthen אידישע אמונה and internalize it. 2) ויקחו אליך causing an עלי’ה in Moshe, who grows in humility as a result of this new relationship, with another (lower) generation. 3) כתית…

Class One. Class Two.

Class One. Shtus Dikdusha, higher than any reason, can only be expressed at times and events that match the energy of the Shtus, Example: at a wedding. The primary example is Dira BiTachtonim as it is higher than any reason it elicits Shtus DiKdusha. 1) From there can come Midas HaHishtavus, 2) The bringing down…

Short Version. Long Version. Class One. Introduction. Long Version. Class Two. Introduction continued. Three ideas of klipa into Kedusha. Pnimiyus. Long Version. Class Three. Beginning of Kapital. Long Version. Class Four. rest of Kapital.

A talk I gave at Machon LiYahadus relating how I experienced her passing and what happened subsequently.

(This is a Parshas HaChodesh Ma’amar). The story of creation must be a part of the Torah but why in the beginning? Why Rav Yitzchok asks this question? Three steps: A. The דינים וגבורות that allow to world to exist; B. The reversal of the צמצום so that what was in the מקום החלל before…

This מאמר is a המשך to the one before. It develops the same three ideas based on 1) creation per se 2) The newness associated with Mattan Torah after Galus Mitzrayim, This idea (dominates the מאמר) and is explained based on a מדרש and a זהר that both equate the giving of the Torah to…