Class One. Introduction to Basi Ligani as a whole. Three examples for אתכפיא ואתהפכא: 1) קרבנות 2) שטות דלעו”ז לשטות דקדושה, this involves the word for not good being transformed to good. 3) שקר לקרש this involves the individual letters of the word for not good (שקר, שין, קוף, ריש) being transformed to good. The meaning of words in Lashon HaKodesh based on the Ba’al Shem Tov, the Maggid and the Alter Rebbe’s teaching.
Class Two. A) Translation of ריש and דלת, they both mean poor but they’re extremely different. The first is a poverty that destroys, the second comes along with ביטול. B) The דלת is Malchus and it must start out poor and then be enriched because it is (in essence) for another. C) The poor become rich, very rich. D) The wealth comes as a result of ביטול which is represented by the יוד behind the דלת.
Class Three. Two Bittuls: 1) תורה, עשירות, משה רבינו. 2) תפילה, עני, דוד המלך. The Bittul of Malchus exceeds even the Bittul of Moshe, the rich one. [We proposed that the Rebbe is setting up what he will say 20 years later].
