06a. Vayeshev Yaakov (וישב יעקב) 5712, Class One. Peace exists on two levels: 1) You fight and win resoundingly, 2) there is no fight in the first place, the enemy is automatically vanquished. In Vayeshev, Yaakov is aspiring to the higher peace but gets instead the lower one: In golus Mitzrayim he has tranquility.

The Sar Hamashkim’s (the butler’s) forgetting Yosef has to with faith and trust. Class two.

The Sar Hamashkim’s (the butler’s) forgetting Yosef has to with faith and trust. Class one.

Class Six. Page 236- 8. Doing what the purpose is, is being like Ya’akov, where nothing was beneath him. In the end his wealth materially and spiritually is found there.

Class Five. Page 235-6. Yaakov settles in the land to collect its sparks, A lesson.

Class Four. Page 234. Conclusion of the Sicha.

Class Three. Page 233-4. When one is given a mission they must know that their material and spiritual success is there בחלק היפה. Not to do what you are told and later complain that there is no פרנסה is silly. In general how much of ourselves should we put into materialism?!

Class Two. Page 233. Beginning of the Sicha: going where you are sent.

Class Twelve. This class began with 20 minutes on the באבא סאלי on the occasion of his Yahrtzeit. Page 294-6. Continued. Why one is not secure until his Metzius is nullified. Lesson: when the alumni gather the real point is not external (money) but internal. They should be as they were (or should have been)…

Class Eleven. Page 292- 4. Yosef and his brothers are bundling wheat. There are two steps to the process of transforming them into Kedusha: 1) Collect and unify them. 2) Bow them to Yosef’s bundle. Until the bowing happens the bundling is not secure. The lesson: to transform to holiness joining the alumni is only…