Pages 393-6. NEW SV p. 519-22. Birurim. Two types 1) Ohr Yashar redeeming the good. The evil is then disposed of. 2) Ohr Chozer dealing with the disposal of what isn’t good. The evil is now (more) transformed and made good. LECTURE: The three birurims 1) Birur Rishon Milmaala Limata (the top down at the…

Pages 390 ff. NEW SV p. 515 ff. Continuation. Reading inside select passages from what was discussed in the last Shiur.

Pages 390 ff. NEW SV p. 515 ff. The Nimshal. The harder one struggles, the deeper into the essence of Torah one goes. It may be caused by golus etc. but the fact remans it gets you deeper into the Torah. 4 levels.

Pages 390 ff. NEW SV P. 515 ff. A Mashal to explain how a perfect Torah can be perfected. A painting 1) The details from the whole, 2) Identifying each detail, 3) noticing the ancillary components and not reckoning with them 4) Knowing that in G-D’s artwork what seems trivial has the deepest secrets!

Page 388-9, NEW SV p. 513-15. Tora adaata dinafshei vs. Lishma. The Torah is perfect. First we learn it to bring ourselves closer to Hashem, then we learn it to connect the (already perfect Torah) with Ein Sof. How can what is perfect be perfected further?

ברכת כהנים is a familiar theme in Chassidus. In this מאמר the רבי turns the ברכה המשלשת (triple blessing) into the ברכה המחומשת (the quintuple blessing). He explores the idea of ברכת המזון after a כזית וכביצה which is לפנים משורת הדין gets us נשיאת פנים.

Pages 386-7, NEW SV pages 509-10. Mimutza Hamichaber. The issue of “Mimutza” (intermediary) is discussed in this class. We explore three different levels of Mimutza. 1) Hamafsik through “Hislabshus” (the intermediary brings the idea into his own mind and transmits his version of it), 2) Hamafsik bDerech Havdala (using the mashal of Miturgeman) (The intermediary…

Class One. This מאמר discusses the relationship between 1) The Mishkan, 2) The work done in the Mishkan, 3) The journeys through the desert. This class wonders about the journeys that happened before the Mishkan was erected and teaches us something outstanding: the Yiddishkeit Jewish people recieved at Sinai existed within them inherently and shows…

Two ideas in Torah. 1) How Torah raises the Yidden up, This is called “Ada’ata diNafshei”; 2) How Yidden raise the Torah higher, This is called “Lishma”. These two ideas are linked to two ideas about Torah 1) Toras Hashem 2) Toraso (the Torah is the learners own). The idea that this now opens, is…

Continued. pages 384-5, NEW SV pages 505-7.