Chassidus

• Two types of love of God: 1) based on understanding, 2) gift from God, above logic.

• Two interpretations of "You shall love God" - commandment to contemplate, or promise: "You will love God". 

• Two types of fire on the alter - Godly fire from above, physical fire from below.

• Contemplation: source of all creation from external ray of Godliness. 

• The difference between יחיד and אחד as applied to God. 

• God's relationship with worlds is from malchus - חי העולמים מלך.

• The reason why the angels say "Holy" three times. 

• Purpose of the blessings before the shema about the angels.

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• Through bringing the sacrifice you uplift the supernal animals on the divine chariot.

• The secret of the sacrifices ascends to the secret of the Ein Sof.

• How prayer is similar to animal sacrifices.

• Uplifting the animal soul through contemplation and love of God.

• Acts of kindness and fulfilling mitzvos elicit revelation of Divine energy from above to below.

• The mitzvos are called "620 pillars of light".

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NEW MAAMAR - אז ישיר משה

• Why ישיר singular, why השירה הזאת, why ויאמרו לאמר.

• Zohar: all praises start with אז, revelation from atik to א and then to ז.

• If there were no Egyptians left after splitting of sea, how did God gain honor through that?

• The world stands upon 3 pillars - Torah, Sacrifices (Prayer), acts of kindness.

• How animal sacrifices are an ascent of the soul of the animal to its source.

• Even though there's no comparison between creation and their source, contractions of the light allow it to vivify the created being.

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• The concept of heaviness כובד in holiness - כובד ראש opposite of קלות ראש.

• כובד אבן - Inner firmness to stand up to all obstacles in fulfilling Gods will.

• Heaviness of kelipah כובד לב - indifference to Godliness.

• Through breaking the heaviness of kelipah you cause the revelation of the glory of God.

• Come to pharaoh, in order to break his kelipah and reveal the level of אני הוי"ה.

• God uplifted Moshe to a level higher than the kelipah of pharaoh.

• אלקים - made of two words מי and אלה, whereas מצרים is מצר מי.

• למען שתי אותותי אלה - the miracles of the exodus brought about the revelation אלה of Gods essence.

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• A creation cannot ascend higher than his source, proof from the spring of Eitam.

• The forefathers reached Havayah but weren't able true draw it down in a truly revealed way.

• The preparation of the revelation of Havayah at Matan Torah was breaking the kelipah of pharaoh during the exodus.

• The connection of Havayah to kavod (כבוד הוי"ה).

• To draw down Havayah into the totality of malchus, the power of keser is needed.

• The deeper meaning of a midrash about the difference between a king and an augustus.

• Two meanings of kavod - heaviness and glory and how they exist within holiness and kelipah.

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• Question: why does it say אלקי אברהם כו' שלחני אליכם and not אלקי עולם or בורא עולם.

• The forefathers drew down revelation of Godliness, whereas in creation alone God is concealed.

• The meaning of ושמי הוי לא נודעתי להם - the forefathers didn't have da'as in the level of הוי"ה.

• Only at the giving of the Torah was הוי"ה drawn down in truly a revealed way.

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• The difference between שמן טוב and טוב שם.

• Two levels: 1) the wonders of chochmah, 2) "The master of wonders" - the essence of God which transcends chochmah.

• Through surrender of ones being to God, you're able to "make" - draw down the will of God into creation.

• The deeper meaning of the distance of 500 years that God traveled to "acquire for Himself a name".

• Drawing down from אתה קדוש to שמך קדוש through the righteous and pious ones.

• Deeper meaning of מסירות נפש - giving over ones will even for spiritual pleasure - to God's essence.

• The level of מגן - the shield - relating to bris and connection.

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• The reason why the vegetative power exist in the earth specifically.

• The connection between אני and אין - essence of God and the אין of כתר or מלכות.

• The meaning of "The 'lower light' continuously calling to the 'higher light'".

• The spiritual source for miracles that are within nature.

• Two ways that God runs the world: 1. from the name Elokim, 2. from the name Havaya.

• The idea of God "Making a name for Himself" - shining of Havaya into Elokim.

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• The idea of 'light' in divine service is serving God based on logic and reason - only reaches external revelation of Godliness.

• Service and love of God flowing from the essence of the soul reaches the essence of God - the idea of 'name'.

• Learning Torah is calling God by his 'name' and pulling Him down in His very essence.

• " Acquire for Himself a name" - bringing about revelation to the essential quality of 'name'.

• Two levels in the divine name ש-ד-י - relating to creating, and above creation.

• Miracles within nature - רוממות הטבע - miracle in Hebrew means: uplift.

• The inherent nature of creation is its being brought into being from nothing - התהוות יש מאין.

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• A name touches the very essence of one's being, whereas light has nothing of the source of light.

• The superior quality of light is revelation, whereas the greatness of a name is it's connection to the essence.

• Name is a הארה קדומה - ray that has a essential source, light is הארה המתפשטת - ray that is only a external glimmer of its source.

• In Godliness: light is the אור הקו, and the name refers to אותיות הרשימו.

• When one calls God's name you draw down from His essence, as long as you have כוונה - deep feeling in this calling.

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