Classes

Class 10

Page 10. 1) This class overviews the ideas of free will that this Hemshech explores: 1) Sechel overrides Teva, 2) Sechel can be objective in relation to Middos and since man has a full set of emotional possibilities, he can choose intellectually, objectively, between them, 3) Good and Evil requires great depth intellectually, 4) Equal...

Class 11

Page 10-11. The third example of free will (requiring Sechel) begins with this class. Good and Evil both exist within the person intimately (as opposed to in a Malach), and they are very different but equal drives within the person and the Sechel will choose between them. Good and Evil in Malachim is different than...

Class 12

Page 11-12. The Mashal of the King and the Ministers coming to a city. Each person chooses the minister he wants favors from, one ‘Pikeach’, particularity smart man asks to host the king, though he knows that he cannot expect any favors from him, because the king is forever. What makes the choice between good and...

Class 13

Page 12-14. K’lipa is in the number 11 because the Chayos and the form (the K’lipa) itself cannot join, so that the K’lipa can be what K’lipa is: live from God and deny that dependency. K’dusha also has a number 11, and that is the real source of the smarts of the Pikeach who chooses...

Class 14

Page 15-16. The fourth idea of Bchirah (Free will): The mind provides choices and the Yechida chooses (breaks the tie). If Yechida is revealed, one has only one choice. If the Yechida functions subliminally, a person has two intellectual options that are equal (as he has both good and evil in himself) and then the...

Class 15

Page 16. This class explores free will as the Rebbe sees it it is not based on reason, but is from the essence. The question of how free will can exist where there is no balance is explored. A pdf is included which was referred to in the class.