Chassidus

Chassidus

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Chassidus episodes

  • Ep. 60 (עמ' סב) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668
    • The spiritual level of 'Yisrael' - refining sparks without war.
    • The level of 'Yaakov' - approaching physicality with deception, a necessary mode of service for most souls.
    • Why peaceful redemption happens through three things - Torah, acts of kindness, and prayer with a minyan.
    • Torah - Drawing down unadulterated Godliness to the world; Acts of kindess - bringing down 'arich anpin' into 'zeir anpin'; Prayer in a minyan - drawing down the essence of God.
    • Why King David's redemption was in peace - because many prayed for him, or because many relied on him and followed his guidance. 
    • Link to view this page of the sefer: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=71
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    24 min
  • Ep. 59 (עמ' סא) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668

    • Refining the holy sparks in a way of קטנות - immature intellectual capacity. 

    • Two reasons why prayer is hard for someone: 1) He's focusing on a Godly light that is covered by the worlds. 2) His Godly soul is imprisoned in the physical body. 

    • Higher level of refining sparks - "The righteous eat to satiate their soul". 

    • The higher refining is similar to eating on Shabbos, the pleasure from eating is a mitzvah. 

    • Refining of tzadikim is peaceful and "automatic", without waging war with the physical temptation.  

    • Link to view this page in the sefer: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=70 

    • Link to purchase this sefer: http://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HRR-SM68

    28 min
  • Episode 58 (עמ׳ ס) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668
    •  Proper intention of business man - make money to give tzedaka, to beautify mitzvos, to have free time and a free mind learn Torah.
    •  Uplifting sparks from business is when he actually prays with proper focus and learns Torah after his day of work, connecting the sparks back to their spiritual source.
    •  Refining the sparks brings down a great revelation from tohu and brings down blessing for a person spiritually and physically.
    •  In order to have the inner strength required to refine sparks from the physical, one needs to have proper prayer before hand.
    •  While dealing with physical his Godly intention is not revealed, the intention is from his strong resolution during prayer.
    •  Refining of Godly sparks is done through deception - pretend like your involved in the physical, but afterwords 'steal' its sparks through prayer and learning Torah.
    •  Link to this page in the sefer: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=69.
    •  Link to purchase this sefer: http://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HRR-SM68.
    34 min
  • Episode 57 (עמ' נט) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668
    Refining of the holy sparks is through chochmah - deception (אני חכמה שכנתי ערמה) | Refining sparks when eating happens when he eats not for self gratification but rather for the sake of serving God with the energy he gets from eating | Working on yourself not to desire the physical takes away the feeling of pleasure when eating | Physical pleasure from eating causes great spiritual decent ones soul | A lower level of connecting to God's oneness | Uplifting the sparks in food like the uplifting of a animal sacrifice on the altar | How a business man can uplift the Godly sparks in all physical things he is involved with - no prohibitions, no being a 'workaholic' | Work is only a physical 'channel' (כלי) to bring down God's blessings to this physical world | Certain special souls don't need a physical 'channel' for God's blessings, but most people do.
     • Link to view this page of the maamar: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=68.
    • Link to purchase this sefer: http://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HRR-SM58.
    27 min
  • Episode 56 (עמ' נח) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668
    Through subduing the animal soul draw down from its infinite Godly source and add energy to your Godly soul | The intense Godly energy of 'nogah' (אור נוגה) | Rivkah's desire to take the blessings away from Eisav so that Yaakov could uplift the physicality | Why the Eisav's blessings had to be taken through deception | Caution from involvement in excess of physical things | Every person's necessary physical involvement is different | Something that is excess will be very hard to uplift (עם הארץ אסור לאכול בשר) | Being that the negative side took from holiness originally through deception, therefore their holy sparks had to be taken back through deception.  
    • Link to view this page of the maamar:  http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=67 
    • Link to purchase this sefer: http://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HRR-SM58.
    32 min
  • Episode 55 (עמ' נז) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668

    • The two results from drawing down the sublime encompassing light (אור מקיף) into Eisav. 

    • One: the energy would be swallowed up and used by Eisav. Two: the light would nullify the very existence of Eisav. 

    • Only Yaakov can refine the sparks in Eisav through the energy of the sublime revelation of the 'dew'. 

    • To Eisav a material blessing, to Yaakov a spiritual one. 

    •  Through using the abundance of physicality for service of God, you bring down a intense additional Godly energy. 

    • Why man lives on the divine utterance in food and not in himself. 

    • Link to view this page of the maamar: www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=66. 

    • Link to purchase this sefer: store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HRR-SM68. 

    28 min
  • Episode 54 (עמ' נו) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668

    • New Maamar - ד"ה פדה בשלום נפשי. 

    • Peaceful redemption through Torah, acts of kindness, and prayer with a minyan. 

    • The name Yaakov implies trickery, even though his name is changed to Yisrael, the Torah still calls him Yaakov. 

    • Why were the blessings intended for Eisav taken through deception. 

    • Why Yitzchak wanted to bless the evil Eisav in the first place. 

    • The spiritual meaning behind the blessing of the dew (ויתן לך האלקים מטל השמים). 

    • The revelation of the inner core of 'keser' in Eisav to uplift the sparks. 

    • Link to view this page of the maamar: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=65.  

    • Link to purchase this sefer: http://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HRR-SM68.

    17 min
  • Episode 53 (עמ' נה) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668

    The Explanation of the gift that Yaakov sent Eisav | 'Ox' - ratzo, 'Donkey' - shov, 'Sheep' - mercy or self sacrifice (ratzo) | 'Servant' - putting ones ego on the side in actuality, doing mitzvos | 'Maid Servant' - the work of refining the sparks (עבודת הבירורים) | 'Rachel' - the essence of malchus, 'Bilhah' - the external ray of malchus | The unique quality of birurim can only happen through descent | Why mishna accomplishes birurim | Yaakov finished the work of tikun, therefore can draw down from tohu | The inner meaning of "Finding favor" (מציאת חן) in Eisav's eyes  • Link to view this page of the maamar: www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=64 • 

    40 min
  • Episode 52 (עמ' נד) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668
    The self sacrifice (מסירת נפש) experienced during tachanun (נפילת אפים) | Type two of emotional excitement - desire to escape but with the ultimate purpose of return | Tikun - 'ratzo' together with 'shov'; Tohu - pure 'ratzo' to the point of expiring | The 'ratzo' of tikun is imbued with surrender of ego and feeling God's ultimate purpose | The 'ratzo' of tikun reaches higher than that of tohu | The four who entered the 'pardes' - why only Rabbi Akiva came out unharmed.
    • With special guest: Rabbi Shalom Ber Mendelson! (חסידות אליבא דנפשיה)
    • Link to view this page of the maamar: www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=63 •
    37 min
  • Episode 51 (עמ' נג) - Sefer Hamaamarim 5668
    Tohu is 'ratzo' while tikun is 'shov' | The experience of 'ratzo' comes from the small capacity of the vessel (מצד קטנות הכלים) | The love of בכל מאדך - with all your might, not truly unlimited, just compared to ones limited faculties (heart and mind) | Tohu - vessels with small capacity, resulting in 'rotzo' and the light leaving the vessels | Tikun - vessels with broad capacity, resulting in 'shov', the light 'returning' into the vessels | The difference between the 'rotzo' of tikun and the 'rotzo' of tohu | Two types of emotional excitement - 1) like a candle becoming absorbed in a torch, the focus is the 'ratzo' - escaping the world • Link to view this page of the maamar: www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=62 •
    34 min

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