Page 14-15. How we praise a Makif we have no relationship with, according to the second way in the previous שיעור? The lower level of מקיף דמלכות is a מקיף over us, but still different than how it is by human kings for four reasons: 1) He starts out above, human Kings start out as…

Page 13 Two interpretations (in the text and in the parenthesis) of the פסוק יהללו את שם הוי’ כי נשגב שמו לבדו הודו על ארץ ושמים and the problems with each interpretation. 1) יהללו את שם הוי the level of Makif that is close to the worlds in an indirect way, and this is why…

Page 12. There are also two levels in Shaim (as there are two levels in Malchus): The name that is the עצם as it is in relation with itself. שם הפעולה is the name that the describes function, but it is more than an action it is a type of person who does this kind…

Page 10-11. There is really a third idea in Malchus: as He kings before the Tzimtzum: meaning before He comes close enough to King over us. The Rebbe connects this to the אדון עולם אשר מלך בטרם כל as opposed to the [לעת נעשה בחפצו כל אזי מלך שמו נקרא [עליהם.

Page 9-10. The Rebbe transfers to the form of Malchus. He explains that there is 1) the King, 2) his name, 3) how the name of the King on the people, 4) the King’s instruction to the people. The Rebbe explains that the creation has two aspects 1) existence, 2) life. These two aspects come…

Page 7-8. Though יש מאין comes from עצמות, it comes through השתלשלות and the process of אור, הארה, הארה דהארה והארה דהארה דהארה. The analogy for this is the idea of שם- a name which is so completely superficial and yet represents the essence more than anything else.

Page 4-7. Three understandings from where the Koach Ein Sof comes from: 1) The Nukva, she opens herself to the Ein Sof through evacuating herself. 2) The Dchura (male) he is a Keli for Ein Sof because of his Dvaikus. Both these views are found in Iggeres HaKodesh 20. 3) The union between the two…

Pages 3-4. Introduction to the יש מאין idea. The RaMbaM insists on יש מאין and the Alter Rebbe’s follow up arguing that all the essential principles of faith revolve around it: 1) God is imminent 2) He knows what we’re doing 3) Prophecy 4) Hashgacha Protis and Miracles and more. Proof for יש מאין from…

Page 3. How emotions form: 1) we see and respond to what we saw 2) We imagine and visualize and react to that. 3) Things we cannot and we can’t even imagine we must attempt to understand and then think about the understanding we had to develop feelings of love and awe etc for the…

Page 1-3. תענוג ושמחה The experience of Joy is 1) revealed, 2) limited (?), 3) affects reaction and passion- the opposite of rest. The experience of Delight is 1) hidden, 2) infinite, 3) affects rest. Why and how. They parallel Bina and Chochma respectively.