This Ma’amar said by the Rebbe on his fiftieth birthday deals with the idea of this Possuk which is added at the beginning of the Amida and appears to interrupt the סמיכות גאולה לתפילה. The Gemara explains it using the logic of תפילה אריכתה. The Ma’amar explains that תפילה אריכתא means much more than an…

Psalm recited before blowing Shofar.

Ata Kadosh… Lidor VaDor Hamlichu… U’Vchein.. HaMelech Hakadosh. Ata Kadosh with the four UVicheins as said on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. It is all about ‘Binyan HaMalchus’ or ‘Crowning Him as a King’. This class has a long introduction explaining the ‘Soul’ of the Yomim Noraim as days we connect with (‘and Crown’) Hashem…

G-d took His favorite child and father of His nation from among the pagans and refined him again and again. And once fully refined a new chapter of this [His] nation’s refinement began in Egypt (to receive the holy land). In this class we explore 1) Pirush Kadmon, 2) Ritva, 3) Maasei Nissim, 4) Maasei…

This class analyzes the text of the Ma Nishtana.

Kidusha in Chazars Hashatz (part one). Kidusha (1). An introduction to Kidusha. The Zohar says that Kidusha is Biblical and is learned from the same Possuk from which we learn Mesiras Nefesh Al Kidush Hashem. Kidusha is about creating a Merkava (seat) for Hashem’s manifestation as the various levels of malachim do. The different Nuschaos,…

Page 31- Introduction: Part One. 1) According to Torah ideas come before things, in other words, there is a רוח before the גשם. The רוחניות is perfect, and all imperfection is on the גשמיות level. The נשמה also precedes the גוף and there are three stages in the process: A) עצם הנפש where everything is…

Page 29-30. A discussion on the idea of Hashem being a מצוי ראשון or lowering himself to be a מציאות נמצא. At that point He automatically has an אור- אין של היש האמיתי. The absolute need for two Ayins if there’s to be another Yesh. Three Meshalim (examples) for the idea of the two Ayins:…

page 28, 30 (inside). This continues the last two discussions, we read the text about the various levels of אור אין סוף קודם הצמצום.

Page 28, 30. This class continues the discussion of the class before struggling to explain אור אין סוף, especially without the help and clarifications of the later מאמרים (like the סמך ואו). We explore the plainness transcendence, of אור and the idea of גילוי- revelation. How Chassidus slowly develops out of the understanding of the…