02. רבון העולמים Class Two. Examining relative נוסחאות. A) How Hashem is addressed: רבון העולמים or רבון כל העולמים or רבונו של עולם, a personal G-d or the Creator of all. Also, is this paragraph only a prayer or a praise and a prayer? B) The mention of קטרת first appears in the Chassidic נוסחאות,…

רבון העולמים. 01 Class One. This prayer first appears in the טור. It is a prayer that Hashem consider our earlier prayers (תורה) as good as an action although we only talked about the קרבנות. We read the Tefilla inside and explained it slowly. מעמדות. Meaning of the final Possuk זאת התורה לעולה וגו.

05. אנא בכח Class Five. This class is very long. The גר”א continued. The fourth millennia is נצח during which both בתי מקדש were destroyed. We explain the irony in רחמי צדקתך to help illustrate this. The fifth millennia is entirely Galus: הוד like דוה. At this point Yidden are called עדתיך denoting 1) even…

אנא בכח .05 Class Four. The גר”א’s ideas. Each line is another מדה from חסד through מלכות. Additionally each line is another one of the seven millennia of creation, including the seventh. This class explored the first three מדות and millennia. We explained the upside and downside of each of the two מדות חסד וגבורה,…

03. אנא בכח Class Three. The Arizal’s ideas. A) There are three levels to this name represented by the numbers: 4, 10, 28 אותיות הוי’ המילוי ומילוי דמילוי. They are three levels of מוחין מדות ולמטה ממדות. B) These are the three levels of wings of the מלאכים בנבואת ישעי’ה: בשתים יכסה פניו בשתים יכסה…

אנא בכח .02 Class Two. This class has two points: 1) Three suggested locations for this prayer [A. after Abayey, B. Before Baruch SHeumar, C. In Yotzer Ohr] and accordingly there are three different understandings of what it is about: A. Gevura- to rise up (and go away). B. To conceal in order to create…

אנא בכח 01 Version two. אנא בכח Class One. Introduction, this is שם מ”ב which is a name of גבורה or ascent, like קדיש. When one goes from one world to another he says קדיש. And on occasion this is replaced by אנא בכח. Some connect it to creation and place it before ברוך שאמר…

01. Monday 22 Adar 5773/ March 4 2013. Ana BiKoach. Class One. Ana BiKoach, Introduction, its Kabblistic nature, its vague origins. A prayer of seven lines with six words to each line making forty two words, based on the forty two letters of the Divine name ‘MA”B’ (42). Most lines have a direct allusion to…

07. אביי Class Seven. Reading concluded. After a day’s ascent, comes the night which is higher than the day, as is the order of the Korban day: from morning to morning.

06. אביי Class Six. Reading continued. אברים the pleasure of total transformation אהבה בתענוגים. At this point one’s life turns around and he lives to give to others.יהי’ שם שמים מתאהב על ידך. Bread, מנחה, internalizing the inspiration one gives [limited but internalized]. The bread represents חביתין .חסד done each day by the Kohen Gadol…