Rabeinu speaks about the importance of Viduy Devarim/verbal confession and why a person needs to express/describe his sins using his speech. Rabeinu connects this to the performance of mitzvot with joy and explains that in order to break all the obstacles in verbal confession (whether it might be forgetting the sin, or that it’s heavy on you to speak about it, etc…) one needs to arouse within oneself the joy of the mitzvah!

Torah 176: Rabeinu explains why attaching oneself to the true tzadik enables someone to get rid of the foolish spirit within his heart and attain a true broken heart…

Torah 177: Rabeinu teaches us that there are some true Tzadikim who have the strength to arouse G-d’s forgiveness for sin when they drink wine. Rabeinu teaches us that this has to do with the tzadik’s ability to attain certain holy mentalities through his drinking that draw down this forgiveness.

Rabeinu also discusses the Kaddish in this lesson and explains the Kaddish in connection with nullifying our ratzon/will before G-d’s will…

Torah 170: Rabeinu explains how a person’s soul and his Avodat HASHEM/G-dly service determines his suffering…

Torah 171: Rabeinu speaks about how the wicked and righteous differ in using a new insight that is brought into the world…

Torah 172: G-d’s light is constantly flowing to us but it’s actually because of our bad actions that we prevent this holy light from reaching us…

Torah 173: The true tzadik can recognize a person’s soul, the inner aspect of his soul, a person’s emunah, and the inner aspects of his emunah just through a person’s handwriting…

Torah 174: How to pray for someone who is overpowered with many judgements…

Torah 175: Rabeinu speaks about the greatness of crying specifically when a person cries because of joy!

Torah 164: Rabeinu explains why the true Tzadik must engage in mundane conversations and how through these conversations he’s able to rectify very sick souls.

Torah 165: Accepting all the suffering and afflictions with love!

Torah 166: The Tzadik receives authority when the world is close to him.

Torah 167: Spending Shabbat by the Tzadik is considered like a fast (or many fasts…)

Torah 168: Rabeinu explains what haughtiness and humility lead to…

Torah 169: Rabeinu gives us a very awesome Torah about the significance of dancing, sweetening judgements, judging oneself, guarding the Brit/holy covenant, and pregnancy…

Torah 160: Rabeinu tells us that your pulse can sometimes prompt you to serve G-d, or commit a sin G-d forbid…

Torah 161: Rabeinu tells us why strife/machloket is crucial to our spiritual growth.

Torah 162: Rabeinu tells us a beautiful story of the Magid of Mezritch (the main student of the Baal Shem Tov) which explains the relationship between greatness/wealth and Torah.

Torah 163: Rabeinu explains why speech doesn’t emerge via the mouth but sometimes via the nape of the neck. He connects this idea with why Sarah was taken into the house of Pharaoh, the 4 types of situations a person is obliged to give thanks to G-d in, and redeeming sparks from the control of the evil husks…

Rabeinu tells us that the Divine Presence stands between us humans and G-d. Now, if a person studies Torah for the sake of the Divine Presence, that Torah study ascends all the way up to the Divine Presence and She will be able to lift it up to G-d. And from this Torah study, both spiritual influx ascends to all the upper worlds and physical influx descends down to this world. But if a person studies Torah not completely for the sake of Heaven, then that Torah study has no resting place and is struck by these supernal commanders of law, which bring this Torah study down here to be scattered into the air of the world…

People, through the air of the world, can draw from this Torah study which descended to the world and can either create from it: 1. Dew of Torah (holy lights of Torah) or 2. 39 travails which drag a person down into the worlds folly…

Torah 156: Rabeinu speaks about the power of hitbodedut (speaking to G-d in your own language) and teaches us how to renew our conversation so that it’s in the aspect of ruach hakodesh/holy spirit.

Rabeinu also teaches us how to purify the heart through fervor and passion/fire to serve G-d…

Torah 157: When one is truly attached to the words of Torah that emerge from the mouth of the Tzadik, one cannot bear this world at all.

Torah 158: Rabeinu explains why some people have claimed to have seen fires in the distance when there was actually nothing there; he connects this phenomenon to explain why sometimes a person loses his fire and fervor/enthusiasm for G-d.

Rabeinu teaches us that the reason why people don’t travel to the Tzadik and cannot pray properly is because they are sad and sluggish/lazy. Why is this so? Sadness and sluggishness stems from a lack in faith… and once a person attains faith, he fears from no obstacles that prevent him from serving G-d. Rabeinu connects this idea to the trait of patience, and explains that patience is necessary in serving G-d for it allows him to endure through all the troubles he goes through when serving G-d.

Rabeinu also discusses the importance of Eretz Yisrael, fervor, and reciting the Shema in connection to this lesson.

Torah 153: Rabeinu teaches us the connection between the sun and the moon and how the same relationship is true with regard to the teacher and the student.

He explains how someone becomes worthy of receiving the countenance of the teacher within their own face

Torah 154: Rabeinu explains where suffering, afflictions, and judgements come from and how to sweeten these afflictions through judging yourself honestly over your actions.

Torah 149: Rabeinu Teaches us that Chatzot/midnight is exactly 6 hours after nightfall and explains why chatzot is so important.

Torah 150: Rabeinu explains that there’s very deep secrets with regard to Yosef Hatzadik’s test with the wife of Potifar.

Torah 151: Rabeinu explains why reading the chapter of the “New Moon” is a segula to have children.

Torah 152: Rabeinu talks about the soul sacrifice one must have to attach yourself to the Tzadik and how this allows a person to enter the door of faith when it is sealed closed.