Video is also available – click to open Up to this point the Alter Rebbe has explained how the seven middot exist within the Jew’s G‑dly soul. These emotive attributes are activated by the three intellective faculties — the Sefirot of ChaBaD (Chochmah, Binah and Daat), which are now to be explained. ומקור ושורש כל […]
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Epistle 16
Video is also available – click to open לאנשי קהילת To the members of the community of . . . It has already been noted that the Alter Rebbe devoted many of the letters that comprise Iggeret HaKodesh to the theme of tzedakah, particularly when dedicated to the support of those who engage […]
Epistle 17 – Part 1
Video is also available – click to open נודע דבאתערותא דלתתא, שהאדם מעורר בלבו מדת החסד ורחמנות על כל הצריכים לרחמים It is well known1 that in response to an arousal from below, when a man arouses in his heart the attribute of lovingkindness and compassion for all those in need of compassion, […]
Epistle 17 – Part 2
Video is also available – click to open לפי שההארה והגילוי שבגן עדן היא בחינת ממלא כל עלמין For the manifestation and the radiation in Gan Eden are of the level called Memaleh Kol Almin13 — the light which “permeates all worlds”; i.e., the muted Divine life-force that contracts, descends and diminishes according […]
Epistle 17 – Part 3
Video is also available – click to open אבל גילוי ההארה שבתחיית המתים יהיה מבחינת סובב כל עלמין The radiation of light at the time of the Resurrection, however, will become manifest from the level of Sovev Kol Almin, שאינה בבחינת צמצום ושיעור וגבול, אלא בלי גבול ותכלית which is not […]
Epistle 17 – Part 4
Video is also available – click to open The Alter Rebbe now goes on to explain why in Gan Eden, when the soul is not encumbered by a body, the light of Keter cannot be manifest, whereas — paradoxically — this revelation becomes possible only in the World to Come at the time of […]
Epistle 17 – Part 5
Video is also available – click to open Returning to the earlier discussion: It is now clear why in future time the righteous (and “Your people are all righteous”) will be lauded as holy: they will all have revealed to them that Divine radiance that is “holy” in the sense that it transcends apprehension. Moreover, […]
Epistle 18 – Part 1
Video is also available – click to open As noted earlier, the overwhelming majority of the letters that the Alter Rebbe’s sons included here as part of the Tanya, were intended to encourage active divine service,1 particularly through the giving of tzedakah for the Kollel Chabad Fund. (This Fund supported fellow chassidim who had settled […]
Epistle 18 – Part 2
Video is also available – click to open Having spoken until now of the higher category in the love of G‑d called ahavah betaanugim, the Alter Rebbe now proceeds to consider the lesser love, ahavah zuta. והשנית היא אהבה ותאוה, שהנפש מתאוה ואוהבת וחפיצה לדבקה בה׳ The second [category] is a love and […]
Epistle 18 – Part 3
Video is also available – click to open The Alter Rebbe now answers the following implied question: If they indeed possess this love, why then are they wicked? אך מפני שהיא מוסתרת ונעלמה בבחינת גלות בגוף, הרי הקליפה יכולה לשלוט עליה However, because it is latent and concealed, in a state of […]
