Haumnam Perek 9 Class 4. This class continues the talk about שלימות and the two types of שלימות: lacking nothing (יכולת) and having everything (כח). We the talked of the three levels in כח itself: 1) כחות היוליים העצמיים (which are all about the שלימות הנפש) and then 2) כחות נעלמים or כחות היוליים that…

Haumnam Perek 9 Class 4, Perek 10 Class 1. In this class we… A) completed the discussion on כח התנועה and how it is a משל for צמצום שלא כפשוטו. B) There is (not only) Achdus with all the worlds (equally) even Asiya, Moreover, there is an aspect of Achdus, which is more in Asiya…

Haumnam Perek 10 Class 2. To us there is concealment while to Him there is real Achdus, Levels: 1) Tzadik 3 days before his passing 2) Reb Nochum Tchernubiler doesn’t see Treife milk 3) the rest of us We meditate and collect ourselves in Shma to feel in Viahavta (which we’ll discuss next time). This…

Haumnam Perek 10 Class 3. After the התבוננות there is a very strong want ואהבת which can only be satisfied בדרך שוב through action, as we’ve seen in the past when people seek “personal paths” to G-d they end up with a want that they have no way of satisfying and fulfilling. One needs daily…

Class Fifty Seven. This class is not text based and includes the Chanuka part of the Ma’amar (from the beginning of Perek 1 and Perek 4). The basic idea is that the Chashmonim demonstrated such a great Mesiras Nefesh as to make it possible to use their energy to light up the night, the street…

Class Fifty Eight. כי נר מצוה ותורה אור ודרך חיים תוכחת מוסר. The three steps are מצות that make one a כלי for the אור התורה but to have it one must do אתכפיא so there’s adequate room for the אור to reveal itself in. How this manifests in Avoda.

Class Fifty Nine. Beginning of the Biur (we actually read inside the text). The world was created from שם אלוקים so that Hashem would be concealed and only after the creation event does the תורה mention שם הוי’ה. The idea of physical מצוות and how even the מצוות that are חובת הלבבות are physical.

Class Sixty. Beginning of אחדות: ביטול היש לאין שהיש יהי’ בטל אל האין. Different ideas of אחדות and what is unique about אני הוי’ לא שניתי.

Class Sixty One. This class discusses the Possuk אני הוי’ לא שניתי, that the basis for the question is the word הוי’ה. In other words, after you define הוי’ה you can explain לא שניתי. Three definitions for הוי’ה: 1) לשון מהוה as the Creator, this is the lowest הוי’ה. 2) מלשון הי’ הוה ויהי’ה כאחד…

Class Sixty Two. This class begins the question of שניתי. How can there be לא שניתי if each world has a different level of גילוי. [Note: the next Perek will address the question of שניתי from the worlds themselves, this Perek addresses the חיות אלוקי that comes into the עולמות]. The differences are in the…