Haumnam Perek 10 Class 3. After the התבוננות there is a very strong want ואהבת which can only be satisfied בדרך שוב through action, as we’ve seen in the past when people seek “personal paths” to G-d they end up with a want that they have no way of satisfying and fulfilling. One needs daily…

Haumnam Perek 10 Class 2. To us there is concealment while to Him there is real Achdus, Levels: 1) Tzadik 3 days before his passing 2) Reb Nochum Tchernubiler doesn’t see Treife milk 3) the rest of us We meditate and collect ourselves in Shma to feel in Viahavta (which we’ll discuss next time). This…

Haumnam Perek 9 Class 4, Perek 10 Class 1. In this class we… A) completed the discussion on כח התנועה and how it is a משל for צמצום שלא כפשוטו. B) There is (not only) Achdus with all the worlds (equally) even Asiya, Moreover, there is an aspect of Achdus, which is more in Asiya…

Haumnam Perek 9 Class 4. This class continues the talk about שלימות and the two types of שלימות: lacking nothing (יכולת) and having everything (כח). We the talked of the three levels in כח itself: 1) כחות היוליים העצמיים (which are all about the שלימות הנפש) and then 2) כחות נעלמים or כחות היוליים that…

Haumnam Perek 9 Class 3. This (3rd class for Perek 9) began with a discussion on the notion of שלימות הנפש. We spoke of two levels: נפש נושא כחות or יכולת and נפש כולל כחות or כח. We explained these two levels as 1) the Neshama not lacking anything and 2) the Neshama having everything….

Haumnam Perek 9 Class 2. 1) Review of yesterday’s class: Achdus (or Bittul) on the higher level, based on the idea of צמצום אינו כפשוטו and the מקום החלל is still filled with אין סוף. As such the creation and the זיו or ממלא כל עלמין (or perhaps the אותיות דבר הוי’ה that create are…

Haumnam Perek 9 Class 1. Higher level of Achdus is due to the fact that the צמצום from the מקום החלל (which also is a חידוש compared to עצמות שאינו בגדר מקום) is שלא כפשוטו. The אור אין סוף continues to be ממלא מקום החלל after the צמצום just like before, and the change is…

Haumnam Perk 8 Class 3. End of Perek 8. More on Achdus based on the idea of התהוות בכל רגע (constancy of creation) in the case of יש מאין. Meshalim for יש מיש and for יש מאין.

Haumnam Perek 8 Class 2. Question of Ruchniyus also existing Lima’ala in the Ayin, but not the Geshem. Another (deeper related) idea is the notion of אין כח חסר פועל למעלה- once something is close enough to be called כח it must have all the potential actualized, or there is a חסרון in אלקות.

Ma’amar Haumnam Perek 8, Class 1. Achdus based on the idea of יש מאין. The רמב”ם introduced יש מאין the Alter Rebbe added to this that it must be every instant (however long that is) This need for constant creation mandates Achdus and immanent involvement in the “lower worlds”.