Chassidus

- resurrection of self through contemplating the great descent of the soul. Link to this page of the maamar: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=55 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- empathy is so important in the emotional experience. - feeling implies that there that are two entities. - feeling oneself is a sign of sickness physically and spiritually. - feeling of self causes spiritual death which will bring a person lower and lower. - to reawaken your relationship with HaShem after sining person needs repentance. - only the revelation of Hashem's essence can bring about forgiveness. - The reason why even the completely righteous say confessions during the 10 days of repentance. Link to this page of the maamar: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=54 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- resurrection is from a higher source than creation something from nothing. - fulfilling Torah and mitzvos with fear of HaShem makes a person truly alive and automatically elevates him intellectually emotionally and actually. - empathy is a sign that you're truly alive. - The true idea of life is not feeling your life. - a true maskil is someone who feels what he intellectualizes. Link to this page of the maamar: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=53 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 3 types of day - revelation. - why resurrection of dead is through רחמים רבים. - what is true life and death. - resurrection of the dead physically and spiritually. - the source Of life מלכות דאצילות. Link to this page of the maamar: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=52 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- Definition of עשיר בדעת and עני בדעת. - What is someone who is חכם בעצם כח חכמתו - lives in ידיעת השלילה. - Two ways of learning Torah in this world. - Hugging the king although he's wearing many layers of clothes. - Difference between learning Torah in this world and learning in the world to come/gan eden. - Where does the rule מרומם נמשך אל השפל apply. - Learning Torah in this world, even on the highest level, isn't considered learning compared to learning in the world to come. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- The difference between רוממות על עולמות and רוממות מצד עצמו. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- What is אהבה עצמית - love of עצם לעצם. - The difference between חסד and רחמים. - The superiority of חמלה over רחמים. - The opposite elements of לימוד and חנינה. - Why learning obligates intellectual exertion - יגיעה. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- The fact that you say סובב is above worlds implies connection to them. - Analogy of king - existence of kingdom only through awe of the king. - How malchus is its source - atzilus - it is like a כלל from which derives the פרט. - There is still a תפיסת מקום of creation relative to אור הסובב. - The purpose of prayer - connect the birurim to Godliness. - Person is given set amount of letters to think and speak to fulfill his purpose. - What happens if person doesn't fulfill purpose - גלגול הנשמה. - Explanation of the request - לא נבוש - בעולם הזה, לא לכלם - לעולם הבא, לא נכשל לעולם ועד - בתחיית המתים. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- The two types of knowledge ידיעת החיוב והשלישה complete each other. - If you can't understand something in the abstract, that's because you're missing in the actual knowledge - ידיעת החיוב. - Understanding chassidus פנימיות תורה helps you understand nigleh. - ממלא הוא אור פרטי, סובב אור כללי - Even the mercy which comes from רוממות has somewhat of a relationship with worlds - קצת הרגש כללי. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- Source of 2 mercies - ממלא כל עלמין - mercy from feeling, סובב כל עלמין - mercy from being above/removed. - Difference between ממלא and סובב - one is understandable, one is above our limited brains. - להבין דבר מתוך דבר - understanding סובב from understanding ממלא. - ידיעת החיוב and ידיעת השלילה. - In revealed aspect of Torah - השגה בדרך הלבשה, in inner aspects of Torah - השגה בדרך הפשטה. - 4 domains of shabbos in nigleh and pinimius or Torah. - The halachah - המחליף פרה בחמור - according to chassidus. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- How אהבת עולם is greater than all other loves. - The difference between רחמים and חמלה. - Questions on the request לא נבוש ולא נכלם ולא נכשל לעולם ועד. - Explanation of the 2 causes for רחמים - empathy and being exalted/removed. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- Why the הרגש of the דבר שכל is especially felt by the simpleton. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- The superiority of simple/sincere people over intellectuals in their connection to HaShem. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- Two levels of malchus and the two types of mercy deriving from them. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- The difference between mercy which comes from empathy, to mercy which comes from being removed and exalted. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- One reason for feeling merciful is רוממות - being uplifted and removed from the subject of the mercy. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 4 rungs of the latter of prayer. - answering the questions of unifying the hearts to love and fear Your name. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- The difference between koach and gilui. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- What is a truly good davening. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=23 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=22 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=21 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=20 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=19 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=18 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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 view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=17 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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 view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=15 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=13 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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 original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- The concepts of מהות and מציאות are 2 ideas that split into 4 - שתים שהם ארבע. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=10 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 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. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=9 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 3 levels of Hashem’s desire to be king. - General definition of what ratzon is. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=8 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- Hashem's kingship is only possible after the tzimtzum. - The concept מלוכה is made up of 2 parts: a. the subjects must relate somewhat to the king; b. the subjects must be separate/foreign to the king. - The source for malchus before the tzimtzum in מלכות דאין סוף. - Analogy of physical king: coronation - nation displaying bittul to the king to arouse his desire to reign. - Actual ruling of the king comes because of and after this awakening of the kings desire. - The decision within the king that he could see himself as a king - רצון מוחלט להיות מלך. - 3 levels in the desire for kingship: 1. revealed desire, 2. awakened desire, 3. essential desire/decision. - At which stage can we call the kink "King". • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=7 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- Why Rosh Hashanah is the "head" of the year. - The explanation of the Alter Rebbe and the Baal Shem Tov of איזה חג שהחודש מתכסה בו. - Rosh Hashanah is כסה - the covering of the letter ה. - The ascent of malchus back to its source on the night of Rosh Hashanah. - The main service on Rosh Hashanah - קבלת עול מלכותו יתברך. - The inner core of malchus (תענוג ורצון) ascends on Rosh Hashanah. - The difference between מלך יחיד and יחיד חי העולמים מלך. - Malchus of אין סוף - Hashem's desire to be king - אנא אמלוך. - Two levels within מלכות דאין סוף - revealed will, concealed will. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31668&st=&pgnum=6 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HFR-SM01 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- THE LAST PAGE/SHIUR OF THE SEFER! - The opinion of the רקאנטי regarding the definition of atzilus. - Tzimtzum- separation of פנימיות from חיצוניות. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- How is חכמה incomparable to אוא״ס from before the tzimtzum, and at the same time just a גילוי ההעלם. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- The keilim of atzilus are expressions of Hashem’s truly unlimited power. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- Even though the sefiros are defined and limited in a certain right, they have an unlimited expansion/expression. - The ten sefiros are revelation of Hashem’s כח הגבול. - Even the sefiros themselves are אין סוף, not just their התפשטות. - Atzilus is called My Name. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- Before the sefiros were revealed, they existed within אוא"ס, but not a recognizable existence - מציאות ניכרת. - All the element/colors of a flame, while they're in the coal aren't seen. - The existence of the sefiros in their source was so refined that they were able to be בהתכללות. - Nothing new was created when the sefiros were revealed. - Why the face the sefiros existed in אוא"ס doesn't make a ריבוי withing Hashem. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=222 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HRR-SM68 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- The concept of ספירות in the אור - like the details of a painting how they're seen. - The opinion of the מערכת about the 10 sefiros of atzilus - עשר ספירות הן אצילות ממש. - The difference between אלוקה and אלקות. - Atzilus is גילוי ההעלם, not a novel creation, therefore it's אלקות ממש. - Main difference between atzilus and beriah. - Analogy of כחות הנפש for the sefiros, even though they are defined, they are כחות נפשיים. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=221 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HRR-SM68 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- The opinion that the אורות are truly פשוט. - The ספירות in the אור result from the רשימו. - The special quality that the sense of sight has over all the senses. - Analogy of someone staring at a painting. - The מעלה of ראיה דחכמה - the most הפשטה there is. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=220 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HRR-SM68 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- The source of the kav in אור אין סוף לפני הצמצום is in the external levels of the ohr. - עליית הרצון - estimation potentially of everything that would be actually in creation. - The reason why the אור הקו is called צינור - pipe/tube. - How the ohr is really defined and therefore can be rooted in the עשר ספירות הגנוזות according to all opinions. - Even ידיעת השלילה somewhat describes the actual entity you're trying to know. - The difference between ידיעת השלילה in עצמות compared to אורות. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=219 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HRR-SM68 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support

- 2 types of המשכות from אוא״ס ב״ה. - sovev is found equally in all levels of creation. - sovev is the main life force of existence, everything is battul to it. - sovev is not dealt by creation. - the source of ohr sovev. - memalei - ohr of the kav, breaks into בי״ע, becomes enclothed internally into all creations. • Link to view this page in original sefer: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=218 • Link to purchase the original sefer: https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HRR-SM68 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/levi-gelb/support