Class 17: Chochma – identifies which sound should come from a given motza. Tziruf into words, sentences etc. The Root of letters is from Atzmus. Chochma carries the osios into Malchus, where the light is diminished and the individual oisios can emerge, first by being divided into 5 categories: the throat, the tongue, the lips,…

Class 16: Six Middos, twelve Gevulei Alachson in Malchus. Numbers bli gvul. MOSHOL: Steps in building a house. 1) a Ratzon – a wanting to have – not realistic –>2) Chochma a flash – possibility to make it real –> 3) Bina – a house is now many bricks, windows, is it worth it to…

Class 15: Mispar ispar hamer ubeh lemata, lemaala. Detail means less light. World created with dibbur. 1) separate from the speaker, 2) only one word at a time, 3) Limited power behind the speech. “Sefiros” (in hemshech ‘ayin-beis’) has four explanations. 1) Number, 2) Light, 3) a story, 4) Sefer – a book of stories,…

Class 14: The concept of “AYIN” is beyond comprehension to us, but INSIGNIFICANT to HIM. Yesh MeAyin – world comes into being every instant – illustrated by 3 stories about tzaddikim davenning for their needs, but yesh M’ayin is only a haarah. Mattan Torah is Atzmus b’giluy in Torah. Yesh HaAmiti – this is the…

Class 68. Class 13: Introduction to the second maamar in this section – Kol Dodi. MATTAN TORAH is the purpose- ANOCHI Yesh Meayin. The first maamar talked about Creation – this one is about yetzius Mitzrayim and Mattan Torah. 2 Ratzons – Pnimius HaRatzon for Torah and Mitzvas, and CHitzonius HaRatzon to create the world…

Class 12:Summary of Chapters 5-6. Language varies from maamar to maamar depending on its source. Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu – Kadesh is holy and removed = Sovev Kal Almin; Baruch = hamshacha to bring down = Memale. Kesser Malchus = Sovev; 10 Sefiros of Malchus = Memale . Malchus is lowest Sefira but has the…

Class 11: End of perek 4. (6 lines from bottom p 117) Creation is a combination of Memale and Sovev. Memale brings beauty and order, gradualism, yesh miyesh, a finite power. In order to make yesh miayin need an infinite power. Whole seder Hishtalshelus is in one point, a Quantum leap. Sovev kal Almin.

Class 10: Several terms are discussed: Pshitus, Klal. Thiru Ilaa, Thiru Tataa. PSHITUS=ONE with no details, opposite of Tziur, the many do not define the ONE. KLAL: ONE but made up of many separate things that DO define the ONE. In nefesh, the etzem ha nefesh is pshitus, it relates only to itself – hence…

Class 9b: Where in HISHTALSHELUS does SOVEV KOL ALMIN begin? cont. Inside p. 112 8 lines from the bottom. Adam Kadmon is Ratzon d’Ratzon of the world. It contains the will for all the wills. Machshava Hakeduma d’A”K is the beginning of Sovev kal Almin. It is a memutza between Atzmus Ohr Ein Sof and…

Class 9a: Where in HISHTALSHELUS does SOVEV kol ALMIN begin? RATZON KLALI. Be careful when dealing with Kabbalah not to diminish Hashem. But Kabbalah allows us to have a relativity with Hashem. Hashem doesn’t have to do anything in a particular way. He chose to make the world orderly so we can connect to Him….