Classes

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.

Class Nineteen in Section Two of the mind

Children’s faith. This class ended with a lively discussion and debate, it is worth listening to.

Class Twenty in Section Two of the mind

The adult negation of all form, vs. the child’s simplicity.

Class Twenty One in Section Two of the mind

An adult is Bottul by not being, a child is Bottul in what he is.

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