Classes

01. Hashem Melech… Machon LeYahadus (5782/ 2021) Class One.This class is an introduction. This is not a Possuk (Hashem Melech, Malach, Yimloch); it is a composite. But it has it’s in ancient prayers already.We explained that this is end of the world of Asiya, as Boruch Sheumar begins Yetzira.We reviewed briefly the ideas of the...

02. Hashem Melech… Machon LeYahadus (5782/ 2021) Class Two.This class began where we finished last week: with the proposal, that Hashem Melech… is like the Besi HaMikdash, or place of Kedusha, or brain of Asiya. We explored how the words are different than their Kedusha (Sefiros) that lie at it’s center. We introduced a personality...

03. Hashem Melech… Machon LeYahadus (5782/ 2021) Class Three.We describe His Kingship in present past and future; as do in Adon Olom, but there it’s in order: past present future. Question are the two the same or different. In Kabbalah (Siddur Chemdas Yisroel) the nikkud (נקודות) adds up to 112, (יחוד קדושה וברכה) which is...

04. Hashem Melech… Machon LeYahadus (5782/ 2021) Class Four.The question here is why we say הוי’ מלך twice, rather than once (Achdus) or three time (unity)?The idea of two (Machlokes) is explained at length,Answer One (Kabbalah (?)): It is the two halves of Kingship: 1) The King accepting and becoming the King, 2) The subjects,...

05. Hashem Melech… Machon LeYahadus (5782/ 2021) Class Five.Second answer: The first Hashem Melech is Adam (three) joining opposites and creating perfect order.Adam is explained in some detail. The second one transcends that.It is the idea that כל עיסקא דשבתא כפול (everything aropund Shabbos is doubled); כל לשונות של גאולה כפולים ( all expressions of...

06. Hashem Melech… Machon LeYahadus (5782/ 2021) Class Six.1) Hashem Melech menas how WE exsist and He’s our King, as per Tanya section 2 Chapter 7 (the beginning).2) Why do we say it twice (not once or three times)?Answer: this double is like the idea (כל עיסקא דשתבא כפול; כל לשונו של תשובה וגאולה כפולים)...

07. Hashem Melech… Machon LeYahadus (5782/ 2021) Class Seven.After we say הוי’ מלך twice, which indicates His being OUR King as a perfect ruler of a perfect world and the transcendence of that, we say והי’ השם למלך על כל הארץ ביום ההוא יהי’ השם אחד ושמו אחד when Moshiach comes His Kingship will be...

08. Hashem Melech… Machon LeYahadus (5782/ 2021) Class Eight.In this class we begin exploring הושיעינו… A variety of different ideas are proposed:1) whenever we finish a section in Tehillim we say conclusionary Pesukim. הושיעינו is par for that course; as we see in the Tehillim and in Davening is three or four different places.2) We...

09. Hashem Melech… Machon LeYahadus (5782/ 2021) Class Nine.[continuation from class eight, explaining all five Pesukim in sequence:]3) We begin explaining these five Pesukim as a sequence (see next class).A. השם מלך He IS a King now.B. והי’ השם… in the future He’ll be more of a (revealed) King.C. הושיעינו וגו’ וקבצנו… We PRAY for...

10. Hashem Melech… Machon LeYahadus (5782/ 2022) Class Ten.Quick reveiew of השם מלך and והי’ השם למלךExplaining הושיענו strength we get from Him (ש”ע או שע”ה נהורין לעתיקא קדישא) Hashem who [comes down into הוי’ אלוקינו=] is OUR PERSONAL GOD.וקבצינו מן הגויים with His help from on high whatever good (‘sparks’) there is all over...

11. Hashem Melech… Machon LeYahadus (5782/ 2022) Class Eleven.ברוך השם אלוקי ישראל מן העולם ועד העולם– a prayer to bring something (from the beyond) down; first it needs to be created and then brought down.The idea of ברכת כהנים is discussed here; it is both a Tefilla and a Bracha.ואמר כל העם אמן ההלוי’ה– (...