Mitzvas Shoresh Mitzvas HaTefilla, Perek 11.

Mitzvas Shoresh Mitzvas HaTefilla, Perek 11, Class 40.
The question of אלקות that comes after the צמצום and that goes into כלים דאצילות vs. אוא”ס as it is by itself.
The basic answer is that all levels of אלקות are אלקות due to the principles of אור מעין המאור and חזר והאיר etc.
We began explaining it more, by introducing the topic of [הוי’ה or אור אין סוף or אלקות or אצילות] the מאמרים on אור ושפע.
The upside and downside of each,
More tomorrow.

Mitzvas Shoresh Mitzvas HaTefilla, Perek 11, Class 41.
Discussion on G-dliness cont.
1) Not G-d but not Creation either
2) G-d in מציאות, which mean it has relationships (with time, space, and form); in RaMbaM’s words, מצוי ראשון and not אינו מצוי
3) It is דביקות is nothing more than reflection of the Source.
4) It is discussed nowadays using the form of אור ושפע
5) Upside and downside of שפע: It has the Giver in it, it is only part of the Giver
6) Upside and downside of אור: It is all of the Giver, but it is only His reflection as He isn’t giving it is emerging from self.
7) Two Meshalim for אור: A) sunlight B) Soul life
8) The need for both: A) מעיו המאור B) רצונית ולא בהיכרח ח”ו.

Mitzvas Shoresh Mitzvas HaTefilla, Perek 11, Class 42.
Discussion on G-dliness cont.
The questions asked previously are repeated here and further explained.
The best Mashal for G-dliness may be חכמת אדם תאר פניו.
The idea of חזר והאיר.

Mitzvas Shoresh Mitzvas HaTefilla, Perek 11, Class 43.
Beginning of the discussion on קריאת שמע and שמונה עשרה.
The חז”ל established שמונה עשרה and (then (?)) ברכות קריאת שמע and (then (?)) פסוקי דזמרא and its ברכות.
Then they joined these things together: סמיכת גאולה לתפילה and פורס על שמע.
This adds to the meaning of the journey of prayer, and we are discussing two parts of this journey: קריאת שמע and שמונה עשרה.
קריאת שמע is reaching up to The Source (Him) and drawing down light in general,
שמונה עשרה then brings this light into the individual ברכות.

Mitzvas Shoresh Mitzvas HaTefilla, Perek 11, Class 44.
The two levels of אליו ולא למדותיו (discussed in Perek 6) are revisited.
קריאת שמע is this idea on the level above the Sfiros and Shmone Esrei is the G-dliness in the Sfiros.

Mitzvas Shoresh Mitzvas HaTefilla, Perek 11, Class 45.
Krias Shma (every day) is like Shofar on Rosh Hashana: it renews His Kingdom for the Year (day)
Discussion of Rosh Hashana: מלוכה and ממשלה, the differences, and the world when Hashem is “only” a מושל.

Mitzvas Shoresh Mitzvas HaTefilla, Perek 11, Class 46.
The Nimshal is Krias Shma that is the “daily” Rosh Hashana and Tekios.
Explanation: הנסתרות והנגלות and י-ה and ו-ה or “in American” “Personal religion” vs “Organized religion”.
קריאת שמע and הנסתרות are part of “Personal religion”, the idea of מסירת נפש etc.
They set the stage for the entire day.
עשרת ימי תשובה the individual is as great as a Minyan because of the revelation of the י”ג מדות הרחמים.
The Mashal for this is חנה’s prayer.

Mitzvas Shoresh Mitzvas HaTefilla, Perek 11, Class 47.
[The beginning of this class is missing]
The Brachos of Shmone Esrei correspond to 1) Yamim Noraim (Gevuros), 2) Sukos and Simchas Torah (Kedusha) and Shmini Atzeres (Sim Shalom).

Mitzvas Shoresh Mitzvas HaTefilla, Perek 11, Class 48.
The idea of Neshama and Yechida (above reason) that is the basis of all of Chassidus.
This explains the idea of the Yamim Noraim, this is a time of Yechida, 13 Middos HaRachamim.

Mitzvas Shoresh Mitzvas HaTefilla, Perek 11, Class 49.
The first Bracha of Shmone Esrei (the Tzemach Tzedek does not explain [but we explained it as the קירוב before the actual involvement, like in the question of שמאל דוחה וימין מקרבת the Rebbe explains there’s the joke מילתא דבדיחותא which precedes the relationship altogether])
The second Bracha is גבורות like the ten days of Teshuva.
The third Bracha is קדושה like the joy of Sukkos (ועצ”ע).

Mitzvas Shoresh Mitzvas HaTefilla, Perek 11, Class 50.
End of the Perek 11.
שים שלום is like the יחוד of שמיני עצרת that the Yiddishkeit comes into life and the world.
Hew life, קליטה.
In much of the world much is made of הושענא רבה because it is the day we get our פתק and hope that it be a פתקא טבא; in Chabad the greatest day is שמיני עצרת as it is the קליטה of everything.
After שמונה עשרה we have the descent into the lower worlds, of Briah (ובא לציון) and Yetzira (שיר של יום) and Asiya (קטרת).