Mitzvas Minui Melech, Perek 1 Class One: Introduction. 1) The RaMbaM (Hilchos Melachim Perek 4, Halacha 10): The role of the King was to strengthen Yiddishkeit and protect the people. The question is only which came first safety (wars) or Yiddishkeit. 2) The power of the King was much greater than the Sanhedrin and the…

Perek 2, Class 9 The idea of loving and not hating, and not even thinking hateful thoughts. Tanya Iggeres HaKodesh 23 נא ונא וכו’ ואיש את רעת רעיהו אל תחשבו וכו’ כמחשבת עבודה זרה ממש Rambam does say it positive (הלכות דיעות פרק ו’ הלכה ד) but Hillel and Chassidus see a point in the…

Perek 1, Class 1. This class introduces the Ma’amar and explores the Chinuch, the Gemara and the Arizal’s suggestion that everyone say each day (in the morning) הריני מקבל עלי מצות עשה של ואהבת לרעך כמוך We further explored the Kabbalah that says that all Souls are parts of the Neshama of Adam HaRishon and…

Mitzvas Vidui UTeshuva Perek 3-4 Perek 3, Class 15 The request סלח לנו אבינו כי חטאנו (forgive us, Father. because we sinned) is explored here. The idea of justifying the forgiveness with the sin is that the sin causes His will to depart and we are asking for a higher will. The Teshuva (Ila’a) needs…

Mitzvas Vidui UTeshuva Perek 2 Perek 2, Class Eight: To correct the sin, in terms of making up for loss and stopping the flow to Klipa, requires Teshuva which comes from Kesser. Mitzvos are Atzilus. Teshuva is from higher than Atzilus, ANOCHI. Perek 2, Class Nine: Understanding the soul: Giluyim, Kochos, Levushim. The infinite Neshama…

Mitzvas Vidui UTeshuva Perek 1 Class One: 1) Introduction to the Sefer Derech Mitzvosecha 2) Four parts to Vidui and Teshuva: 1) Teshuva (future), 2) Charata (past), 3) Vidui, 4) Bakashas Mechila (the last two are verbal). Class Two:Each Avaira happens on three levels: 1) the second of transgression מרידה במלך מלכי המלכים defying Him…

Page 124. How there could be כפירה, כחשו בהוי’ ולומר לא הוא? The answer is that זה לעומת זה עשה האלוקים. In קדושה there is הארה דהארה or שערות this is true of קליפה also. The שערות of קדושה are אלקא דאלקייא. The שערות of אלקא דאלקייא are כפירה.

Page 123-4. End of Sugia of Achdus according to the Ba’al Shem Tov. Only Yidden are expected to achieve Achdus because they come from Havaya, Pnimiyus, Sovev; non-Jews are allowed to believe in שיתוף which is a refined level of אלקא דאלקייא.

Page 123. Achdus of the Ba’al Shemtov. Inside summation.

Page 123. Beginning of the Ba’al Shem Tov’s achdus: the world doesn’t exist at all, as it is like the light of the sun in the sun (we just don’t see it). Some history about the Baal Shem Tov’s letters and the letter about לית אתר פנוי מיני’ה.