Class One. To understand the מנורה of חנוכה we first discuss the מנורה that lit in the בית המקדש. The מנורה’s seven branches are the seven מדות, and there is זה לעומת זה and לאום מלאום יאמץ between the seven of נפש האלקוית and the seven מדות of the נפש הבהמית. To guarantee that קדושה…

19. Hayosheves Baganim 5738.The Ma’amar of the (Motzoei) Shabbos after 10 Shvat 5738.The three interpretations of Hayosheves BaGanim; our Ma’amar brings (only) one, about Yidden in Galus and all of heaven comes to see and hear (and respond) to what we learn and do. These efforts bring the Geula and even what happens before and…

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. To explain the gift of the Torah that is dependent on Jews who are in turn dependent on the Torah. [For two reasons this dependency exists: 1) they protect each other, 2) in Essence they are the same]. The Rebbe explains how a Neshama is on high: 1) It exists in אצילות (as…

(1) This class (the first of two on this Ma’amar) deals with the idea of: לא הי’ צריך להתחיל התורה אלא החודש הזה לכם, ומה טעם פתח בבראשית? משום כח מעשיו הגיד לעמו לתת להם נחלת גויים The Torah doesn’t bring בראשית just to defend a non-Jew’s onslaught, but because the world is where the…

Why Malachim are standing still while Neshamos are called Mihalech. 1) because the Malachim have a body and a soul that are close while the body and soul of the Jew are very far apart (which is why they have the power of Ein Sof to procreate). 2) malachim are from Dibbur while Neshamos are…

The idea that Yidden have a fixed number: 600,000 בסוד שרש doesn’t make the additional Yidden mere actualization of the כלל of נשמות because there is another side to this coin: 1) The Bracha of Moshe adds more 2) A Yid like רשב”י who is on the level of עושין רצונו של מקום שמלאכתן נעשית…

Hemshech Part Three. Class One. Introduction: the word טבע in the נשמה includes the personality limitations based on the מטבע שטיבען and the ענין של יחידה that has a טבע of connection to Hashem. On this basis we learn the מאמר which speaks of three levels: 1) טבע the nature of the Neshama, 2) עבודה…

Hemshech Part Two. Three levels of הילולא which means the joy of a wedding. 1) The union of נשמות on high before they come into this world (this is the lowest level even though it is in the spiritual worlds). Example for this from the Mitteler Rebbe’s joy (and his father’s objection). 2) Physical marriages…