Classes

Class 29.

Page 49-51. Even the rich have reason to pray, but why? Don’t they have everything they need. Moshe is considered rich, and not Ya’akov, though he and Ya’akov both are from the central pole, because he is Da’as. He is specifically ‘Da’as Elyon’, which is really rich.

Class 30

Page 51. Da’as Elyon is about depth, not height. Da’as Elyon brings The infinity of the soul into the body but in a manageable way. This means that although Da’as is infinite, it is nevertheless in a vessel that a man can manage and direct as he chooses deliberately. This is the meaning of what...

Class 31

Page 51. In this class, we explore what Da’as is. It is a depth and a connection to things outside itself that has an incredible amount of power. Da’as exists on the lowest levels regarding the most menial physical things, but exists also on much higher levels, on levels of the intellect and even the...

Class 32

Page 52. This class asks the question why do we say that there are two levels of Da’as? It answers the question by quoting the possuk. Our reality, our facts, are the Biblical letters and words and we study them with incredible precision and detail. The Possuk says ‘Ki Kail Daios Hashem’, we know therefore...

Class 33

Page 52. How is Da’as Elyon intellectual? What is the definition of the human brain? The modern vs. the ancient. Philosophy is real wisdom, but one needs to be a Parush. All intellect, direct indirect, applied and abstract is all Da’as Tachton. Da’as Elyon is knowing the unknowable.

Class 34

Page 52-3. The two levels of Da’as tie into two levels of emotions: A) Emotions that come from reason, B) Emotions that are higher than reason and come from Da’as Elyon. The two kinds of Hishtalshelus. KaChaB and ChaBaD the difference.

Class 35

Page 53-4. Being rich means having in a special way [that one cannot lose what they have perhaps]. Two ideas in Godliness: Atzmus, without relation to anything other than self. In relation to ‘Kol almin’, the worlds. There are two levels of this 1) ‘Sovev Kol Almin’ in relation to all the worlds the same....

Class 36

Page 54-6. Life in two levels: 1) Hispashtus, 2) Etzem What is life? Eternity and unity with the body (Hislabshus). It comes from Etzem and comes down into many individual forms.

Class 37

Page 56-7. Etzem of Ohr Ein Sof is higher than life altogether. What it means to love Hashem What it means to love Him for the life He gives (Mimalei), for what is the Source of that life (Sovev) and for His absolute Truth.

Class 38

Page 57-8. Two levels of need (Weekdays and Shabbos) and what is above need (higher than Shabbos). Two levels of lack and wealth.

Class 39

Page 58-9. The Midrash brings three kinds of prayer: 1) Dovid, poor, 2) Daniel, For making a mistake, 3) Moshe, the rich man who prays. [To be sure the Zohar also has a fourth prayer: תפלה לעני which is an allusion to משיח but our מאמר speaks only of three]. Moshe prays though he’s wealthy...

Class 40

Page 59- 60, 62. The Kapital ‘Tefila LiMoshe reveals Moshe’s prayer: first to lift up Malchus by praising it and then it can be enriched. 1) to fill its emptiness, 2) to reveal its source in the essence.

Class 41

Page 59-61. Shabbos. Friday night we return to the pleasure associated with creation. Shabbos day we return to the pleasure of Him as He is Himself.