Part 4: Torah-Ohr, Mitzva- Nehr. Mitzvos – physical. Text: p.36 U’biur. Ner Mitzva v’Torah Ohr… A ner is anything that conducts light and holds it here (in this world). Fire is goshmius but is used as a moshol to explain ruchnius. Fire wants to go away back to its source. We need to keep it…

Part 3: Chanuka – Mesiras NEFESH, HIGHER THAN TORAH. Text: covers first paragraph of maamar and ois dalet. Three knots:1) Hashem to Torah 2)HaShem to Yidden 3)Yidden to Torah. Torah is HaShem’s Light, Hashem’s wisdom. Yid is Hashem’s child, His Chosen ones. Since Torah is HaShem’s Wisdom it must be reasonable with limitations and not…

Part 2: Idea of Chanuka. Torah and neshamos. Text: p 35 First Paragraph. To the outside: The purpose of the Chanukah Licht is for pirsumei HaNes. Put the licht in the doorway on the LEFT side opposite the mezzuza. If there is no mezzuza, put it on the right side. Questions: 1) Why to the…

Part 1: Structure of the ma’amar. Perek Aleph: 1) Many Questions about Chanukah licht. 2)Ner Mitzva (is the oil) and Torah Ohr (is the light.) 3) Mitzvas are done with physical objects. The point is to make the Yesh bittul to the Ayin. The next three parts discuss how there is no change regarding how…

Avoda: Parnassa. Hashem will bless you in all that you DO. One needs to do – to make a keli on the one hand and to have emuna that everything comes from Hashem on the other. Hashem set the world up in a way that we get things through a memutza. They bring Hashem closer…

TESTS: absolute darkness. The Akeida. Rabbi Akiba. Mesiras Nefesh of Frierdiker Rebbe. Withstanding a test breaks the darkness and allows a higher revelation of light in the world. Story with wounded soldiers coming to visit the Rebbe. When faced with a TEST: STOP thinking and just DO.

Avoda: Intro to TESTS. Adam and Chava had one job – to eat fruit (do mitzvas). Originally Gan Eden was on the first floor and all bad kelipas in the basement. With the chet etz hadaas assiya fell down and klipa became mixed b’taaruvim in the world. Now there are 3 jobs to do. 1)…

Rav must use words very carefully to keep the pnimius and all the links intact. Rabbenu haKodesh wrote the Mishna very carefully with links and hints for future students intact. He saw the material as Ohr Yashor. The Amoraim that came after must work to see all the links. For them it is a light…

A point of Torah consists of omek (depth) the etzem of the point, Orach (length) how the point comes down to lower levels, and Rochav (breadth) how the point relates to other points and the rest of the Torah with the pnimius still intact. The Rogachover sees the whole Torah as 10 points. The Rebbe as…

1st moshol 1st teretz.: Mashpia – mekabel moshol. A rav can’t give over his entire breadth and depth of his knowledge to the talmid because it will overwhelm him and he will get nothing. 3 rules of giluyi (revelation). 1) to a zulas. 2) Zulas gets it. 3) zulas determines what to learn. Ohr vs…