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…

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…