The Thursday Night Shiur - Maayon Yisroel - Rabbi Reuven Wolf

Three aspects in our connection to G-D. 1. A journey of the mind to explore and grasp higher manifestations of G-Dly light. 2. The innate Divine spark that is always present inside of us no matter how low we might fall enabling us to experience at all times true faith and climb out of the darkness 3. Reaching above and beyond the entire created order to the infinite light and channeling it down into this world accomplished through a Mitzvah.

A profound discourse on the significance of  Torah study. Why we must study both the revealed and mystical dimensions of the Torah.

A deep insight into the Mitzvah of standing up for a Torah scholar. The great importance of memorizing Torah knowledge, which allows one to experience unity with G-d at all times, even while not actively engaged in spiritual activity.

A mystical explanation on the “Three Times Holy” that we say during our prayer:

The soul’s descent into the body in order to struggle with darkness is an absolute necessity for it to rise infinitely beyond its original capacity. Just like water is filtered through the earth and emerges clean from beneath the ground, so too is the soul purified in its passing through the filter of the human body.

A profound discourse on the significance of  Torah study. Why we must study both the revealed and mystical dimensions of the Torah?

The Sages teach us that the gender of the child is determined  by which partner transmits seed first. If its the Father then it will be a Girl if its the Mother then it will be a Boy. This has a mystical meaning as well. We the Jewish people are married to G-D the children that we produce in our marriage is the love of G-D that is Kabbalisticlly referred to as our spiritual children. The love can either be Male or Female. A masculine love is a striving and a passion to cleave to G-D’s very self even if that would mean an end to the soul as we know it. A feminine love is a striving and passion to experience a ray of Divinity that would allow for the Soul to retain its own existence.

An inside look at the sin of the Two son’s of Aharon. The danger of striving for spirituality for ones own gratification and not as a means to serve G-d. The Two son’s of Aharon reached the highest form of spiritual ecstasy to the point that they couldn’t control themselves from expiring in G-D’s infinite light. That was great for them but its not what G-D wants from us. We are charged with the mission to elevate the mundane and sanctify our bodies which can’t be accomplished if our souls escape back to their G-Dly source.

A Mystical look at the Sun and the Moon as they are Now, and the way they will be in the Messianic era.