Chassidus

Chassidus

By Levi GelbReligion & Spirituality
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Chassidus episodes

  • Ep. 71 (עמ' עב) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668

    New Maamar - ד"ה כי נר מצוה ותורה אור.

    • Explanation why God is called the "heart" of all of creation. 

    • The difference between heart (לב) and honor (כבוד) - the 32 pathways of chochma or malchus. 

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    30 min
  • Ep. 69 (עמ׳ עא) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668

    • Yosef was רועה את אחיו - drawing down of the revelation of shabbos into the weekday. 

    • "Yisrael Loved Yosef" - the revelation of the higher level love of God on shabbos.

    • The explanation of Yosef being "Born in the old age" of Yaakov. 

    • The superiority of Yosef 'tzadik elyon' over Binyomin 'tzadik tachton'. 

    • The uplifting of sparks of tohu  (שם ס"ג) through Yaakov, tikun (שם מ"ה) which draws down a higher revelation (שם ע"ב). 

    • Yosef is called בן פורת - the word פורת is same letters as תופר and פותר. 

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    30 min
  • Ep. 68 (עמ׳ ע) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668

    • Two levels of concentration (כוונה) - animal type (דעת תחתון), and human type (דעת עליון). 

    • Yaakov on the 'outside' and Moshe on the 'inside'. 

    • Yaakov the servant - service of God comes with much toil, Yisrael the son - service of God without toil. 

    • The level of Yisrael is given as a gift from God. To reach this sublime level one must preface the service of Yaakov - 'da'as tachton'. 

    • Yaakov corresponds to the weekday, and Yisrael to shabbos - מי שטרח בערב שבת יאכל בשבת. 

    • The 'offspring' of Yaakov - the Godly revelation brought about through his mode of service, is Yosef - additional revelation of divine pleasure. 

    • Yosef represents the Godly revelation of shabbos and the times of moshiach. 

    • Explanation why it mentions Yosef's age (בן שבע עשרה שנה). 

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    31 min
  • Ep. 67 (עמ׳ סט) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668

    • Da'as makes it so you never forget what you meditated on. 

    • Da'as is connection to a concept and recognition of איך ומה הוא - the how and what of the idea 

    • Da'as takes over all your senses to the extent that you can't be connected to anything else 

    • Da'as Elyon and Da'as Tachton in service of God - bitul hayesh and bitul b'metzius. 

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    40 min
  • Ep. 66 (עמ׳ סח) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668
    • Prayer is 'da'as' (דעת) - recognition, connection and deep feeling.
    • 'Da'as' relates to the Godly energy with transcends limited vessels, that's why it's not counted in the ten sefiros if keser is included.
    • Being that prayer is 'da'as' which transcends vessels, therefore prayer has the power to draw down that transcendent level of Godliness.
    • The main idea of prayer is: direction of the heart (כוונת הלב) - directing and giving over your whole being exclusively to God.
    • The true meaning of 'da'as' - not knowledge (which is chochma and binah), rather recognition and feeling as if seeing the concept in your minds eye.
    • Chochma and binah are synonymous with seeing and hearing - seeing the actual thing, hearing only of its existence.
    • Seeing with your minds eye - feeling as if the subject of your meditation is already here.
    • Why the sages say "Look at three things and never sin" - 'look' and not 'understand'.
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    22 min
  • Ep. 65 (עמ׳ סז) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668
    • Negative commandments clear out the negative forces to allow for Gods dwelling in this world. Positive commandments create the actual vessels to contain that presence.
    • Main focus of a person should be to rid of the evil within himself, this will automatically affect the world too.
    • Every positive mitzvah also has an aspect of it that refines the animal soul.
    • "Mitzvos require intention (כוונה)" - to draw down the infinite essence of God through them.
    • Fulfilling a mitzvah creates a vessel that automatically draws down Godliness, but still deeper intention is needed to draw down the transcendent light of God.
    • The general intent behind all mitzvos throughout the day is from prayer.
    • Connection of prayer to the spinal cord; The reason why prayer in not considered a mitzvah from the Torah.
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    26 min
  • Ep. 64 (עמ' סו) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668
    • The external levels of malchus and midos of atzilus are the source for creation of the lower worlds.
    • Another explanation of לתבונתו אין מספר - referring to binah of atzilus, and more specifically to revelation of 'atik' in binah.
    • The true meaning of דירה בתחתונים - drawing down the infinite essence of God and not the external ray of Godliness.
    • How we are able to "fulfill Gods needs", as a servant of God.
    • Two aspects in creating a "Dwelling for God in this world": 1) drawing down the essence of God through Torah and mitzvos. 2) making the objects of this lowly world into proper "vessels" for God's essence.
    • The comparison of mitzvos to planting a seed; How doing mitzvos with physical objects makes them into channels for the divine.
    • The deeper meaning of הוקשה כל התורה לתפילין - the entire Torah in connected to the general theme of tefillin.
    • What does it mean הקב"ה מניח תפילין - God dawns the tefillin?
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    31 min
  • Ep. 63 (עמ' סה) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668
    • The meaning of שיעור קומה של מעשה בראשית רל"ו אלפים רבבות פרסאות.
    • The emotive attributes of atzilus relate to finite worlds and are therefore limited.
    • Only the external lower level of 'midos' relate to worlds, their inner core transcends them. 
    • Inner meaning of ולתבונתו אין מספר - 'midos' and 'malchus' of atzilus don't have limitation.
    • The concept of פנימיות and חיצוניות in all of the levels of creation.
    • Examples from intellect and emotion of פנימיות and חיצוניות, only the external level is expressed through letters of speech.
    • Only the outer lower level of 'malchus' descends to create and enliven worlds.
    • Why a student doesn't appreciate the full meaning of his teachers wisdom until after 40 years.
    • Letters conceal and hide the intellectual concept being expressed through them.
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    27 min
  • Ep. 62 (עמ' סד) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668
    • The world is a new creation something from nothing, how can we say that its source is limited?
    • Even in the world of Atzilus there is limitation (number) - the ten sefiros of Atzilus, God's potential for limitation, specifically the vessels.
    • The limitation of the vessels of the sefiros of Atzilus is different from the limitation in the lower worlds of בי"ע - there is no end to the expression of the sefiros of Atzilus, but there is specific form.
    • The role of the vessels in creation and the role of the infinite essence of God - essence: bring into being new existence, vessels: limit that existence.
    • The idea of התלבשות כח הפועל בנפעל and הפועל עצמו.
    • Two types of divine energies: 'Light' (אור) and 'Power' (כח) - both are limited but in different ways - הגבלה בעצם, הגבלה ע"י הכלים.
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    31 min
  • Ep. 61 (עמ' סג) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668
    • Questions on the verse אלה תולדות יעקב יוסף - why only Yosef? Why Yosef called בן זקונים and not Binyamin?  Why tell us Yosef age? Why does it say Yaakov and Yisrael?
    • Yaakov - servant, Yisrael - son. A physical servant, how can we be called servants of God?
    • Purpose of creation - דירה בתחתונים - "Dwelling place" means: for God's essence, and in a revealed way.
    • There are unlimited spiritual worlds even though each world is limited and different from the others. 
    • The meaning of God's supernal speech. connections between speech and rocks.
    • Source of creation (מלכות דאצילות) and the creation itself is limited.
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    25 min

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