קדיש Class Thirty One. This class explains the first four levels (from higher to lower). שלמא רבה a perfect person has inner peace. חינא a less than perfect person, but one who has done much work on himself may not have peace, but he has חן, a grace and charm which make his good even…

קדיש Class Thirty. יהא להון ולכון continued. There is the “light from above” which is called “יהא”; and there is the vessel for this light which is us “יהון ולכון”; and then there is the glue that brings the two together. This glue is like the טהרה that prepares a Yid for the light of…

קדיש Class Twenty Nine. This class begins explaining יהא להון ולכון וכו’ ואמרו אמן. יה”א= the highest light כח”ב which we pray should rest on the מרכבה which is the ישראל רבנן etc. discussed above. And the glue to bring יה”א (or כח”ב) together with ישראל רבנן etc. are the מדות described שלמא רבה etc….

קדיש Class Twenty Eight 2) The RaMbaM does not have the words על ישראל or the words ועל כל מאן… We suggested the reason why; that it is because his Golus wasn’t so dark. 3) The Frierdike Rebbe explains על ישראל altogether differently. There are three levels 1) יחיד and 2) ציבור and 3) רבים….

קדיש Class Twenty Seven. The conclusion of the first half of על ישראל. One) After explaining על ישראל… רבנן… תלמידיהון… תלמידי תלמידיהון we go on to explain ועל כל מאן דעסקין באורייתא. This alludes to the light (enlightenment) that emerges from the Torah of darkness (as it is explained in the Samach Vov).

קדיש Class Twenty Six. In this class we finally got to the wording of על ישראל itself. Introduction: three levels: 1) The Luchos were כולו פנים and 2) The Sefer Torah is פנים ואחור and 3) Torah Sheba’al Peh is על ישראל .כולו אחור the G-dly light behind the wisdom of the Torah (תפארת) ועל…

Class Twenty Five Beginning to read על ישראל. The commentaries expose the meaning of all the detail. For example, the five allusions to Torah Scholars: ישראל, רבנן, תלמידיהון, תלמידי תלמידיהון, כל מאן דעסקין באורייתא It all has meaning. Why a special Kaddish for Talmidei Chachomim. Three generations creates an unbreakable knot.

קדיש Class Twenty Four. Reading again inside the first half of Kaddish reviewing what we discussed last year briefly.

קדיש Class Twenty Three. Review of what we learned last year about the history and spirit of Kaddish. From the outside in, from the prayer of the simple people to the prayer of holiest people, said at every opportunity.

קדיש Class Twenty Two. יתברך וישתבח וכו’ שמי’ דקודשא בריך הוא לעילא מן כל ברכתא וכו’ ונחמתא וכו’ ואמרו אמן (Class 2). A) שמי’ דקודשא בריך הוא what is the difference between our custom to respond with אמן and the other custom to respond with בריך הוא. In our custom Hashem’s name is שמי’ דקודשא…