P 25 (New SV p 35)Discussion of Seder Hishtalshelusלכל תכלה ראיתי קץ – Gvul pp 20-24 (27-33) Bli gvul pp 25-28 (pp35-39)רחבה מצוותך מאד – Atzmus p 29 (p 40)Gvul – Everything that exists for a specific purpose will have an end. At the end you can see the beginning (tzimtzum HaRishon) and at the…

There are two taanugs. One is for the completion of a project. נועץ תכילתן בסוף וסוף בתחלתן. And one is for the pleasure of the You the Thinker who thought of the idea in the first place and the pleasure of putting oneself into the project. The You gets pleasure also after it is done….

Three Levels: Olomos – Gan Eden – Edenwe are discussing the second bli gvul levels with regard to tefila. There is feeling Hashem and being sastisfied, Feeling Hashem and wanting more, and a tzubrokenkeit where he wanats more and more every day.To go from level to level in Gan eden and from Gehinnom to gan…

In Gan Eden also Neshamas have to work. To go from level to level they must leap. In learning Torah there are three steps: 1)Hard work 2)Confusion 3) Forgetting that are necessary to get to the next level. The Confusion leads to a new clarity. To advance in Torah one needs new ways of looking…

In the Beis Hamikdash they blew Shofar even when Rosh Hashana was Shabbos. The Maamar explains the idea of pnimiyus (vs. chitzoniyus), order and hiskalelus (as opposed to ribuy in Golus; Tzadik vs. Baal teshuva) that existed in the time of the (1st) Beis Hamikdash. The aguda achdus in the time of the Beis Hamikdash…

Higher than Pesukei Malchiyos and Zichronos is Shofros. This reaches Atzmus itself and is the Avoda of Ben SheNaase Eved. Torah with bittul touches Atzmus. The Atzmus is revealed as it says “Ata Niglaisa…”. This highest level is not really and fully revealed until Yom Kippur. Atzmus is above eating and being nourished from outside…

The third point is Zichronos,this is discussed in this Shiur. Zichronos reveals the perfection of “Ihu ViChayohi Chad”. Here also there are the two steps of the Pesukim themselves (Ein Sof above Ratzon the source of Sovev Kol Almin) and the Bracha (that reveals the Etzem of Ein Sof). Page 539-40, NEW SV p. 709-11.

Siyum HaDerush: [the Shiur follows the four steps of Davening: 1) shofar 2) pesukie Malchiyos, 3) Zichronos, 4) Pesukei Shofros]. This Shiur explored two points: 1) Shofar is Bitul Atzmi and Kabalas ol Atzmi and reaches (only) Etzem of Ohr Ein Sof. Shofar must come first because without it nothing would matter. 2) Pesukei Malchiyos-…

Samech Vav – B381 The two last points of HaShamayim Kisii. 1) Explaining the Possuk HaShamayim Kisii: Shamayim is Torah and Eretz is Neshamos and there must be also Tefilla (Bayis asher tivnu li). and only the Bittul of Tefilla is “El ze abit…”. Brings down Atzmus. 2) The conclusion, he suggests that maybe the…

Three ideas: 1) Tzadikim bring the light into Asiya as they are above the world, 2) The struggle over Binyamin, Yehuda (Eved) and Yosef (Ben) each have a claim to him, because Binyomin was a Tzadik, whose idea was light, but a lesser light. Yehuda claims that Binyomin in his closeness to them may actually…