Chassidus

The contemplation to produce fear seems to be the same as that which produces love - focusing on the exalted essence of God, just that the focus is a little different: Fear - the exalted essence of God; Love - His essence is above internal investment in worlds | Deeper awe of God is aroused by contemplating how the essence of God is found everywhere in a revealed way, even in this physical world | Any feeling of love and desire to leave the worlds means that you're still far from God, when you're right next to the king himself, there's no desire, just self abnegation | 'Ratzo' (רצוא) comes from 'binah', 'shov' (שוב) from 'chochma' • Link to view this page of the maamar: www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=61 •

The love brought about by contemplating how far God in His essence is from the world, is to connect only to His essence and not to any external revelations from Him | Higher love which comes from a feeling of closeness | Analogy of light's natural desire to go back to its source because it always remains attached to that source | The love of delights - אהבה בתענוגים - when the essence of God is revealed in your soul, expressed in a feeling of deep pleasure because of how close you are to God Himself | Fear is a feeling of distance, and is produced by feeling distant | Analogy of the exalted king who's awe falls upon all his subjects | Fear of God produced by contemplating how removed the essence of God is from the worlds, even from חכמה of אצילות, and even from מחשבה הקדומה דא"ק • Link to view this page of the maamar: www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=60 •

Contemplation on the Godly energy that enlivens the world, but can't feel the precious Godly energy because of his overindulgence in physicality, generates a love defined by bitterness and thirst | The concealment of Godliness caused by the sin of Adam with the "Tree of Knowledge" | The strong decision made to leave physicality and to connect to God through Torah and Mitzvos | Deeper love experienced by contemplating how removed the essence of God is from the worlds | explanation of משובח ומפואר עדי עד שמו הגדול | explanation of אתה קדוש ושמך קדוש, the difference between the holiness of "You" and "Your name" • Link to view this page of the maamar: www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=59 •

Another way to understand the difference between 'tohu' and 'tikun' being chesed and gevurah - love and fear, rotzo and shov | Love is a feeling of closeness, and comes from feeling close to that which you love | Love is produced only when that which you love is on your level, if not its closeness results in awe and self abnegation | The love of God produced by contemplating how He is the life of all the worlds | Similar to how a person loves the life of his own soul | Through the contemplation of כי הוא חייך one disconnects themselves from taking pleasure in physicality solely for the sake of the physical | The levels of נפש רוח ונשמה in the spiritual worlds | The love of Abraham • Link to view this page of the maamar: www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=58 •

The light of the first day is the infinite energy of God which preceded the tzimtzum | The difference between the quality of Godly light in 'tohu' compared to 'tikun' is like the difference between אור אין סוף שלפני הצמצום and the limited אור הקו | Two reasons why 'tohu' is characterized by chesed and 'tikun' by gevurah: (1) Tohu - unlimited revelation of godliness without contraction - chesed, tikun - limited revelation through concealment - gevurah. (2) Tohu - revelation without the veil of vessels - chesed, tikun - revelation concealed by the veil of vessels | The difference in souls between time of temple and time of exile | Unique quality of the vessels of atzilus • Link to view this page of the maamar: www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=57 •

New Maamar: ד"ה ויהי לי שור וחמור | Questions about Yaakov's offering to Eisav | The spiritual sources of Yaakov and Eisav in 'tikun' and 'tohu' | 'Tikun' is characterized by chesed and 'tohu' by gevurah | The concept of the seven shmitos - the first two being 'tohu' and 'tikun' | The general difference between 'tohu' and 'tikun' - the quality of the Godly light - ריבוי האור and מיעוט האור | Examples of the difference of light: the light of the sun and daylight in general compared to the light of the moon | The light that existed on the first day of creation - אדם הראשון היה מביט בו מסוף העולם ועד סופו • Link to view this page of the maamar: www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=56 •

Within the worlds there does not exist the concept of ביטול היש לאין, but creation יש מאין does exist (somewhat), therefore it is not a true חידוש | The three tzadikim who could see far distance and into the future | The 'legs' of אדם קדמון extend all the way down to our lowly world | The meaning of the zohar: 'whoever doesn't transform darkness to light doesn't have a place in the world to come' | Transforming 'kelipas nogah' and not total bad (שלש קליפות הטמאות) | The revelation of moshiach times comes about through the service of nullifying our existence to God • Link to view this page of the maamar: www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=51 •

Short Synopsis and notes of the Rebbe Rashab on the previous discourse • Link to view this page of the maamar: www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=53 •

In order to nullify one's existence back to God, there first must be the creation of that existence through the divine name of Elokim | Deeper meaning of צחוק עשה לי אלקים - greatest divine pleasure is from the concealment of Elokim | The 13 words between the first אלקים mentioned in creation and the second - 13 attributes of mercy | The levels of 'hundreds' - external level of keser, 'thousands' - inner core of keser | The power to nullify our existence back to God comes from the inner level of keser | Deeper meaning of גדולים מעשה צדיקים ממעשה שמים וארץ | Difference between מקיף דבית and מקיף דלבוש • Link to view this page of the maamar: www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=52 •

The difference between creation something from nothing and emanating the world of atzilus | The nullification of ones being and ego to God is more amazing that creation something from nothing | "From above they give, but they don't take back" - why is 'taking back' and nullifying the creation back to its source 'harder' than its very creation? | Similar idea of creation something from nothing exists within the spiritual cosmos - cause and effect (עילה ועלול) - the 'effect' is considered like physical existence compared to its 'cause' • Link to view this page of the maamar: www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=50 •