Chassidus

- 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 service of publicizing Godliness.

 - Avraham's lesson: the whole purpose of the physical is for the sake of the spiritual.

- 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 souls to infuse us with power to fulfill the purpose of creation.

- 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, yud below, יש הנברא, vov in the middle - אין באמצע.

- The creation of יש הנברא is only through the concealment of the creator.

- Every creation has a specific measurement that it can receive Godly energy.

- 3. The idea that is expressed through the combination of letters together to form words.

- 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 Hashem.

- 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, escorting - important.

- 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, analogy of craftsmen making a pot.

- The Godly creative energy must be hidden from creation - therefore It's called אין.

- 2 ways that ביטול היש can happen.

- The concealment of Divinity is itself a Godly power.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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 letters from Hashem.

- Simple and deeper explanation of why Rosh Hashanah is called בכסה - from the word covering/concealment.

- 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.

- The concepts of מהות and מציאות are 2 ideas that split into 4 - שתים שהם ארבע.

- 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.

- "Essence" of letters is power of revelation; "Existence" of letters is the limitation/definition they bring.

- letters within the soul itself - כח הגילוי של הנפש.

- The reason for the רצון המוחלט - the source of malchus within Hashem’s very essence. 

- Deeper explanation of רצון מוחלט - essential desire/decision. 

- Anyone who doesn’t own property is lacking in being himself. 

- The distant source for the revealed desire is the inherent desire.

- 3 levels of Hashem’s desire to be king. 

- General definition of what ratzon is.