Classes

Class 16

Page 17-18. Only Yidden can make Hashem a King, because they are rooted in Atzmus. Malachim and Elokus are too distant from Atzmus to be able to arouse His Ratzon for Melucha.

Class 17

Page 19-20. Na’aseh ViNishma, Kabbalas Ol Malchus Shamayim and Kabbalas Ol Mitzvos. Kabbalas Ol and the Ta’anug Atzmi of Mitzvos. The highest Ta’anug is unknowable and the Godliness of Kabbalas Ol comes from a similar place in the Neshama.

Class 18

Page 20-23. Yiras Shamayim means higher than Atzilus. Havaya is Atzilus, the four letters of His name, the four elements etc. Shamayim is above all that. In this class we explain the Universe in the Jewish model from Shfailim to Yesodos (Tzuros) but as other Rishonim contend this is the world of the Shaidim (spirits)...

Class 19

Page 20 ff. The four elements, Fire is Atzilus and Wind is Briah, Why? Fire and light are removed from all other material, but even Atzilus is still a world.

Class 20

Page 23-4. Machshava, Koach haMachshava and Yedias atzmo BiAztmuso. Three levels of thought are discussed and the difficulty of using thought as an example is pointed out. The three levels are very far apart.

Class 21

Page 24-6. How the three levels in thought mirror the three levels of Malchus before the Tzimtzum. The uniqueness of (the Mashal of thought and the Nimshal of) Malchus.

Class 22

page 26-7. Three levels in Malchus and how they parallel the three ideas of Machshava, Koach HaMachshava, and Yedias Atzmo BiAtzmuso.