Class One. This class includes Perek 2-3 of the Ma’amar that speaks of the ideas of Ohr (light) and Ahava (Love), arguing that the essence of all light and love is distance and not closeness. It discusses Ohr Yashar and Ohr and more. Class Two. This class explores the second part of the Maamar. 1)…

Class One. Two types of seeing through the”garments” of the eye and directly from the Etzem. Two types of Hashgacha: 1) through מלאכים that act like eyes, 2) directly- כאישון עיני. Two types of Avodah: Mind and heart and Essence- Yechida, There’s a bringing of the higher level into and through the lower level. Class…

Vihaya Aikev 5738.Summary: This ma’amar is about the importance of “holistic” performance of all mitzvot on every level (thought, speech and deed).  “Machshava” (thought) is connected to “seichel” (intellect), “dibbur” (speech) is connected to emotion, “maaseh” (deed) is connected to “asiyah” (action). The role and practical function of each level is explained in the class….

Maamar HaShayim-Kisi-5738“Shamayim” (Heaven) is Hashem’s chair and the “Aretz” (Earth) is Hashem’s footstool.  What does this mean? Heaven is like a chair which brings Him down to the worlds.Earth is like a footstool that raises the world up to Him.Spiritually this is Torah (heaven) and Yidden (earth).However each of the two are the (collective) purpose…

Braishis 5739 Class One: This class explains the “Shlichus” we take from Tishrei to bring Him with us into the everyday. The Ba’al Shem Tov taught that the meaning of the Possuk בראשית ברא אלוקים, is to reveal the reason for the Tzimtzum of Elokim. This will teach you how important Kavana is. Because he…

Two levels of wholeness and perfection and the difference between them: 1) אלה תולדות השמים והארץ בהבראם- עולם על מילואו נברא. 2) אלה תולדות פרץ- לעתיד לבא יעלה הפורץ לפניהם. These are two levels of perfection, one in the beginning of time there everything is A. potential and not yet actual, B. limited and in…

Class One. We need walls to protect us in two ways: 1) Protect Klipa from coming in and getting more life than what Hashem allotted for it. [Klipa exists to give us more meaningful free will and the additional life it leaches adds to fulfilling it’s purpose of challenging our free will] 2) Prevent Klipa…

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!

Class One. The heavens and the earth are linked: The lowest levels of heaven (השתלשלות) to the highest levels of earth (אצילות), and the link is revealed and obvious (גילוי ההעלם). The highest levels of heaven (עצמות) and the lowest levels of earth (בי”ע) are linked but the connection is sublime and will be revealed…