Livushim (3). Long introduction. This class reviews the first part of this Perek about the Livushim. The internal organs are not included in the 248 limbs, they are “general limbs” and represent “Super Mitzvos”.

Livushim (2). Continued.

Livushim (1). All Mitzvos connected to all Livushim. Each Mitzvah is connected to one part of the person.

More on the two levels of לשמה. A) to bring us closer to him. The discussion from the רמב”ם’s introduction to פרק חלק about reward and punishment and serving Hashem for a higher purpose, culminating in לשמה. See also הלכות תשובה פרק י. The idea is that even the לשמה is to connect me with…

Continued Perek 5. More on the advantage of Torah over Mitzvos as Torah is both “food” and a garment. But there are two ideas in this itself: A) as it brings the person closer to Hashem ולשמה היינו לקשר נפשו ודעתו בהוי’ה B) It fulfills the divine purpose לשם התורה עצמה as will be explained…

This class deals with end of perek 5.

Review of last week. The idea of מקיף ומוקף in the שכל of תורה and on a higher level, in the אלקות of תורה. In exploring this we visited the idea of תורה being מזון וגם לבוש. Two ideas in מזון: A)You become (one with) it. B) It (the Torah) becomes one with you, it…

The word Tfisa bothers us. Because having Atzmus through Mitzvos is Him draping us and not the other way around. He introduces the answer by discussing ideas, that they are simultaneously holding the ideas and the ideas are holding them. He will argue that Torah (as opposed to Mitzvos) are “Makif AND Mukaf”.

This class we began discussing דעת. דעת is התקשרות that what you are involved with matters and is personal. It is a tool that is ours to use at will just like חכמה ובינה etc.

חושים (Three). A) חושים not only take in, they give out very deep things. But in and of themselves they could be very deep and have no connection to the essence of what is real which is why they are called in קבלה with the name הבלים. B) חוש המישוש according to the רמב”ם is…