Class One Yechidus determined the Mind and Heart of each Chossid – It was according to his Mehus HaAtzmi. This statement seems circular, we resolve how it isn’t. Yechidus for a lifetime.

Class One A Rebbe learning privately with one of his children. The Tzemach Tzedek and the Rebbe MaharaSh- a special relationship.

Class Three 1) Summary of the last class, Chassidus uses Kabbalah to reveal something higher than Kabbalah- using form to access the formless beyond Or: Just as Philosophy uses physical things to get at meta-physics, Chassidus uses the form of Kabbalah to get to what is beyond the form. 2) Philosophy. RaMbaM was a great…

Class Four Philosophy according to Chassidus: Three levels of adaptation: 1) The Person (RaMbaM etc.) is holy but philosophy is philosophy. 2) The Philosophy is also holy, but cannot be fused with Kabbalah. 3) Not only is the Philosophy holy, but it is part of one theologically latticework that synthesizes Kabbala with Chakira in Chassidus…

Class Two Learning Kabbalah and explaining it according to Chassidus. The Rebbe RaShaB’s quote: Chassidus isn’t a commentary for Kabbalah, Kabbalah is a commentary for Chassidus. The Alter Rebbe: what is Etz Chayim- Hishtalshelus, we speak higher and even higher. What the study of Ruchniyus and Elokus (metaphysics) is all about, and how Chassidus uses…

Class Two They went down “living”. The downside of being alive: in Sheol you still believe you are alive (right). The upside of being alive: you can still do Teshuva. Korach’s sons did right away in thought (and reemerged at the end of the forty years) According to the Gemara Korach is now saying משה…

Class One Parnassa is from heaven we must “only” make the Keli. 1) It should be enough 2) and for good things.

Class Two Parnassa continued. 1) Some make no Keli in Parnassa at all, like יוסף הצדיק, נחום איש גמזו, ר’ אלעזר בר’ שמעון. 2) The rest of us make a Keli in Teva and we need balance in this: we are making the Keli, but the blessing is from Hashem.

Class One Korach בריאה יברא הוי’ה

1) Minhagim of שנים מקרא ואחד תרגום. Opposites of גשמיות and רוחניות: health in one is sickness in the other. שמח בחלקו בגשמיות הכי טוב. שמח בחלקו ברוחניות לא טוב, a person must keep growing.