Chassidus

- Essential/Eternal love - אהבת עולם. - אהבה של שבע שנים - love based on the supernal midos. - אהבה של עשר שנים - love based on the supernal intellect.

- Two levels of malchus and the two types of mercy deriving from them.

- The difference between mercy which comes from empathy, to mercy which comes from being removed and exalted.

- The second cause of mercy - empathy, ability to feel others pain and joy. This ability is possible only through da’as, identifying and connecting to someone in your mind.

- One reason for feeling merciful is רוממות - being uplifted and removed from the subject of the mercy.

- 4 rungs of the latter of prayer. - answering the questions of unifying the hearts to love and fear Your name.

- 3 stages of the souls and within Godliness: 1. Actual soul powers/sefiros. 2. How these powers are included within their abstract source in the soul/ sefiros in keser. 3. The essence of the soul potential for all powers and expressions/ essence of God potential for limitation or unlimited expression.

- The difference between koach and gilui.

- 3 Explanations of the word יחד - unify, designate, clearly. - Unity with Godliness through dedicating your heart to Hashem. - Clear attachment to Hashem through an essential attraction to Godliness. - 2 types of divine revelations from Hashem - ממלא כל עלמין, סובב כל עלמין. - The differentiation of ממלא כל עלמין, each entity to its capacity. - סובב כל עלמין is found equally within every world.

- The cause of indifference/coldness in divine service is lack of avodah in prayer. - Deeper explanation of אין לך אדם שאין לו שעה. - Deeper explanation of קץ שם לחושך. - Questions on the prayer - ויחד לבבנו לאהבה וליראה את שמך.

- What does "forgetting" about Godliness during davening mean. - Different levels of poorness - physically and spiritually. - The immense holiness of a shul. - The effect of a "routine" davening has on the rest of your day. - How davening can cause your soul to take expression in your body.

- What is a truly good davening.

- What happens to the idea expressed through a sentence when the words separate. - The difference between breaking and separating. - What is left in the letters after the words are broken. - The analogy of fragrant spices in jars, after they're taken out of the jars. - Why the breaking of the vessels cause yeshus. - What is the idea of עבודת הבירורים. - Why ויטע אשל is important to Avraham's servi...

- The fourth level: intellect expressed through a sentence. - Example of the nusach of a blessing, what each word means by itself, and the higher meaning when they come together. - Why אתה implies Hashem's essence. - The concept behind הוי"ה from the word התהוות. - What does אלקינו mean? We are imbued with a Godly supernatural power. - The meaning of the blessing: drawing down from עצמות into our...

- The yesh of creation can only come about through שבירת הכלים - shattering of the vessels/letters. - What is the general idea of letters. - For levels of expression of intellect through letters. - 1. The lines that the letters are made of. - 2. The form/shape of the entire letter, how it's composed of different letters together. - The meaning of the form of the letter alef - yud above, יש האמיתי,...

- The creation of the world through the 10 sefiros - 10 utterances. - How the first 2 utterances refer to the sefiros chochmah and binah. - Question: how can limited created worlds come from sefiros which are literally Godly. - The difference between יש מאין of the sefiros to יש מאין of the created worlds בי"ע. - Difference between ראשית and תחלה. - Why creation of sefiros does not cause change in...

- Avraham explained to people: 1. everything is controlled by God. - 2. Ones sustenance and livelihood are dependent on God's Individual providence. - 3. Godly concepts can be understood by the human intellect. - Different levels of comprehension, different levels of intellect. - 3 levels that Avraham caused: הודו, שבחו, ברכו. - How is publicizing Godliness through the אשל - eating, drinking, esco...

- Avraham caused the name of Hashem to be called out by everyone who came to his tent. - Two special qualities of Avraham: 1. Publicizing Godliness in the world - God is directly connected to worlds. - 2. The way in which Avraham spread knowledge of God - through the אשל. - The main thing Avraham did: explain greatness of Hashem with examples and analogies. - Difference between יש מיש and יש מאין,...

- Galus by neshamos is caused by galus of Hashem. - Revelation of Godliness can only come about through bittul. - Praising brings about bittul in the one giving praise. - Explanation of לך ה' הגדול and כי כל בשמים ובארץ. - The definition of "50 Gateways of Understanding" - נ' שערי בינה. - Why specifically through prefacing pesukei d'zimra can one come to the spiritual service of shema. • Link to v...

- Why every request from Hashem do we ask that it should be from שמים. - The spiritual level of שמים - the midos of atzilus. - When Godliness shines through the midos then - ואהב את יעקב ואת עשו שנאתי. - What happens during galus spiritually - הסתלקות ההארה מתוך המדות לעצמותו יתברך. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=16 • L...

- The 2 main psalms of pesukei d'zimra, why? - How psalm 148 hints to all of creation, and 150 to the 10 sefiros. - How pesukei d'zimra is a preparation for the spiritual service of shema. - The deeper meaning of שמע ישראל הוי"ה אלקינו הוי"ה אחד - the innate ability of נשמות ישראל to understand that which transcends nature. - The unique unity of Hashem expressed in the words הוי"ה אחד. • Link to v...

- Letters of thought are a true yesh m'ayin from the soul. - The possible way of thinking: without a מלובש there is no לבוש. - When the אור departs from the כלים of the 10 sefiros, they still exist like a body without a soul. - The essence of creation if from הוי"ה, the actual creation is through אלקים. - The seeming difference between the התחדשות of letters from the soul, to התחדשות of Godly lett...

- The level of מהות of the מציאות how it relates to the garment of thought. - 3 Stages of גילוי within thought - מחשבה שבמחשבה, דיבור שבמחשבה, מעשה שבמחשבה. - How thought is a יש מאין from the soul. - The difference between descent of עילה ועלול to יש מאין. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=12 • Link to purchase the origin...

- The concepts of מהות and מציאות are 2 ideas that split into 4 - שתים שהם ארבע. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=11 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01

- 2 explanations of המחדש בטובו בכל יום תמיד מעשה בראשית. - Only in Hashems essential goodness does He allow our avodah to arouse Him to be our king. - Creation is something that must happen constantly. - The garments of the soul are יש מאין from the soul itself. - The difference between letters in the soul (שכל ומדות) and letters in thought. - Everything is made of two parts: מהות ומציאות. - "Ess...