קדיש Class Forty Eight. There are two levels of peace: In a Holy environment and outside the Holy Environment. This is the difference between the peace in יהא שלמא רבה and the peace in עושה שלום במרומיו. This is explained with the RaMaK’s explaining the way we bow by עושה שלום, first left, and then…

Terumas Hadeshen, Short (Yeshiva) version (5781/ 2020), Class One.This class is an excellent example of how Chassidus sheds light, meaning, and personal application to Jewish practices from the Temple period that can be difficult to relate to in the modern context.Ash (sadness) the good type (Koved Rosh before Tefilla) and the bad type (Atzvus, is…

Vayehi Achar (the Akeida), Class Two.WEDNESDAY 4 KISLEV 5775/ NOVEMBER 26 2014Vayehi Achar Class Two. There are many reasons to say VaYehi Achar and though the idea has been around since the Zohar, it was not said until the last few hundred years or so. This class explores why it has been recently incorporated into…

Likutei Sichos vol. 6 page 28 ff. This class deals only with the part of the Sicha about Yosef. Though Levi survives Yosef by twenty years, the death of Yosef marks the beginning of the Galus from the spiritual sense. The level of miracles that Ya’akov brought with him to Egypt passed with Yosef’s death.

הודו להוי’ קראו בשמו Class Twenty Six, Class One.This classes deal with Pesukim 49-51.– Harchev Picha – When Moshiach comes we have the ability to ask for great wealth and it will not make us crazy – we can handle it. הודו להוי’ קראו בשמו Class Twenty Six, Class Two.This classes deal with Pesukim 49-51.–…

הודו להוי’ קראו בשמו Class Twenty Five, Class One.This class deals with Pesukim 46-48.This class has a lengthy introduction, about words and their usage and the level they represent, whose source from the Zohar.The three levels are 1) Kesser, 2) Atzilus (Z”A), 3) Malchus.For example: 1) מצותי and 2) מצות הוי’ה and 3) מצות המלךThe…

הודו להוי’ קראו בשמו Class Twenty Four, Class One.This class deals with Pesukim 43-45.The idea of חיכוי was explained (נפשני חכתה) based on the idea in Zohar יעשה למחכה לו למאן דדייק במילין דחוכמתאThe idea of overcoming challenge, reveals the deepest levels of the Neshamah. הודו להוי’ קראו בשמו Class Twenty Four, Class Two.We read…

הודו להוי’ קראו בשמו Class Twenty Three, Class One.These two classes:1) Reviewed everything we learned all year since והוא רחום.2) We read the rest of הודו with the commentary of the ספר הברית who is the only ראשון whose commentary seems to follow the pattern of these Pesukim as we recite them each day although…

הודו להוי’ קראו בשמו Class One. Beginning of the Davening with a Minyan according to our custom. Half of Hodu is from one place (דברי הימים א’ ט”ז ח’ ואילך), the other half is from various Pesukim in Tehillim. The first half also is found almost identically in Tehillim 105. Hard to know when it…

Class One Hundred and Thirty Six, The Chumash: The “Well of Miriam” Class Three.This class is the first of the new school year (5780-5781/ 2020-2021) and the introduction is therefore necessary.Part 1:  What is slavery? Having no control over oneself means not having the freedom to overcome our weaknesses – that is slavery.  If a…