This Possuk is hard to understand. RaShI explains that it means the first of the things to be created were… The Zohar has trouble with this and explains that this Possuk is about the ten Sfiros. Chassidus adds that 1) the ten S’firos are created Yesh MeAyin, 2) They serve the lower worlds, as they…

Breishis includes the world as it is in 1) the Torah, 2) in the Sefiros and 3) down here. The point is the Torah down here!

Parshas Bereishis, (Yeshiva 5781/ 2020), Insights into the first marriage – what can we learn from Adam and Chava?1) Created last and thought of first.2) First AND last, we can be close to G-d or lower than the lowest animal3) Our body is the lowest and our Soul the highest, so we can bridge the…

Explaining Adam and Chava living forever (before the sin) and their dying afterwards. (Part of a class given at Machon LiYahadus).

Hashem’s ‘regret and depression’. What is the meaning of ‘His heart’ and more. RaSaG, Rashi, E. Ezra, RaMabaN, R. Becahyey, Likutei Sichos.

Class One. Page 144-6. Preoccupation with material things is shameful. Class Two. Page 146-8. After the fact the extra money results in extra Tzedaka. The idea of Keren Hashana and its advantages.

Class Three. Page 148-150. Abba Chilkia and his wife, the advantage of women’s Tzedaka over men’s Tzedaka. This applies to the Tzedaka people give their own children. Including Ruchniyus, what a mother does for her children is more than what a father does and is more direct. Everything begins in heaven and comes from heaven…

Braishis includes the creation of 1) Heaven and earth, 2) the four letters of Hashem’s name as 3) Divided into the ten utterances of the creation. This is paralleled by the Braishis, the two firsts: Torah and Yisroel who are also divide into 1) Heaven and earth, 2) the four worlds of Torah and a…