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- 1. There is None Else Beside Him
- 3. The Matter of Spiritual Attainment
- 4. What Is the Reason for the Heaviness One Feels when Annulling before the Creator in the Work
- 6. What Is Support in the Torah, in the Work
- 7. What Is the Habit Becomes a Second Nature, in the Work
- 8. What Is the Difference between a Shade of Kedusha and a Shade of Sitra Achra
- 10. What Is Make Haste My Beloved, in the Work
- 11. Joy with a Quiver
- 12. The Essence of One’s Work
- 13. A Pomegranate
- 14. What is the Greatness of the Creator
- 15. What is Other Gods in the Work
- 16. What Is the Day of the Lord and the Night of the Lord in the Work
- 20. LISHMA (for Her Name)
- 21. When One Feels Oneself in a State of Ascent
- 22. Torah Lishma (for Her Name)
- 23. You That Love the Lord, Hate Evil
- 25. Things that Come from the Heart
- 34. The Profit of a Land
- 36. What are the Three Bodies in a Man
- 43. The Matter of Truth and Faith
- 44. Mind and Heart
- 45. Two Discernments in the Torah and in the Work
- 5. Lishma Is an Awakening from Above, and Why Do We Need an Awakening from Below
- 9. What Are Three Things that Broaden One’s Mind in the Work
- 17. What Does It Mean that the Sitra Achra Is Called “Malchut without a Crown”
- 18. What Is My Soul Shall Weep In Secret, in the Work
- 19. What Is the Creator Hates the Bodies, in the Work
- 24. Out of the Hand of the Wicked
- 26. One’s Future Depends and Is Tied to Gratitude for the Past
- 27. What Is “The Lord Is High and the Low Will See”
- 28. I Shall Not Die but Live
- 29. When Thoughts Come to a Person
- 30. The Most Important Is to Want Only to Bestow
- 31. All that Pleases the Spirit of the People
- 32. A Lot Is an Awakening from Above
- 33. The Lots on Yom Kippurim and with Haman
- 35. Concerning the Vitality of Kedusha
- 37. An Article for Purim
- 38. The Fear of God Is His Treasure
- 39. And they Sewed Fig-Leaves
- 40. Faith in the Rav, What is the Measure
- 41. What is Greatness and Smallness in Faith
- 42. What Is the Acronym Elul in the Work
- 46. The Domination of Israel over the Klipot
- 47. In the Place where You Find His Greatness
- 48. The Primary Basis
- 49. The Most Important Is the Mind and the Heart
- 50. Two States
- 51. If You Encounter this Villain
- 52. A Transgression does not Put Out a Mitzva
- 53. The Matter of Limitation
- 54. The Purpose of the Work
- 55. Haman from the Torah, from Where
- 56. Torah is Called Indication
- 58. Joy is a "Reflection" of Good Deeds
- 59. About the Rod and the Serpent
- 60. A Mitzva that Comes through Transgression
- 61. Round About Him it Stormeth Mightily
- 62. Descends and Incites, Ascends and Complains
- 63. I Was Borrowed on, and I Repay
- 64. From Lo Lishma to Lishma
- 65. About the Revealed and the Concealed
- 66. The Giving of the Torah
- 67. Depart from Evil
- 68. Man's Connection to the Sefirot
- 69. First Will Be the Correction of the World
- 70. With a Mighty Hand and with Fury Poured Out
- 71. My Soul shall Weep in Secret
- 72. Confidence Is the Clothing for the Light
- 73. After the Tzimtzum
- 74. World, Year, Soul
- 75. There Is a Discernment of the Next World, and There Is a Discernment of This World
- 76. With All Thy Offerings Thou Shalt Offer Salt
- 77. One Learns from One's Soul
- 78. The Torah, the Creator, and Israel Are One
- 79. Atzilut and Bya
- 80. Concerning Back to Back
- 81. Concerning Raising Man
- 82. All Worlds
- 83. Concerning the Right Vav, the Left Vav
- 84. What Is “So He Drove the Man Out of the Garden of Eden lest He Would Take of the Tree of Life”
- 85. What Is the Fruit of Goodly Trees, in the Work
- 86. And They Built Store-Cities
- 87. Shabbat Shekalim
- 89. To Understand the Words of the Holy Zohar
- 90. In The Zohar, Beresheet
- 91. Concerning the Replaceable
- 92. Explaining the Discernment of Luck
- 93. Concerning Fins and Scales
- 94. And You Shall Keep Your Souls
- 95. Concerning Removing the Foreskin
- 96. What Is Waste of Barn and Winery, in the Work
- 97. Waste of Barn and Winery
- 98. Spirituality Is Called That Which Will Never Be Lost
- 99. He Did Not Say Wicked or Righteous
- 100. The Written Torah and the Oral Torah
- 101. A Commentary on the Psalm, "For the Leader upon Roses"
- 102. And You Shall Take You the Fruit of Goodly Trees
- 103. Whose Heart Maketh Him Willing
- 104. And the Saboteur Was Sitting
- 105. A Wise Disciple Bastard Precedes a High Priest Commoner
- 106. What Do the Twelve Challahs on Shabbat Imply
- 107. Concerning the Two Angels
- 108. If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two
- 109. Two Kinds of Meat
- 110. A Field Which the Lord Has Blessed
- 111. Breath, Sound, and Speech
- 112. The Three Angels
- 113. The Eighteen Prayer
- 114. Prayer
- 115. Still, Vegetative, Animate, and Speaking
- 116. Why Did He Say that Mitzvot Do Not Require Intention
- 118. To Understand the Matter of the Knees Which Have Bowed Unto Baal
- 119. That Disciple Who Learned in Secret
- 120. The Reason for Not Eating Nuts on Rosh Hashanah
- 121. She Is Like Merchant-Ships
- 122. Understanding What Is Written in Shulchan Aruch
- 123. His Divorce and His Hand Come as One
- 124. A Shabbat of Genesis and of the Six Thousand Years
- 125. Who Delights the Shabbat
- 126. A Sage Comes to Town
- 127. The Difference between Kernel, Essence, and Added Abundance
- 128. Dew Drips from that Galgalta to Zeir Anpin
- 129. Divinity in the Dust
- 130. Tiberias of Our Sages, Good Is Thy Sight
- 131. Who Comes to Be Purified
- 132. In the Sweat of Thy Face Shalt Thou Eat Bread
- 133. The Lights of Shabbat
- 134. Intoxicating Wine
- 135. Clean and Righteous Slay Thou Not
- 136. The Difference between the First Letters and the Last Letters
- 137. Zelophehad Was Gathering Wood
- 138. About Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person
- 139. The Difference between the Six Days of Action and the Shabbat
- 140. How I Love Thy Law
- 141. The Holiday of Passover
- 142. The Essence of the War
- 143. Only Good to Israel
- 144. There Is a Certain People
- 145. What Is Will Give Wisdom Specifically to the Wise
- 146. A Commentary on The Zohar
- 147. The Work of Reception and Bestowal
- 148. The Scrutiny of Bitter and Sweet, True and False
- 149. Why We Need to Extend Hochma
- 150. Prune unto the Lord, for He Hath Done Pride
- 151. And Israel Saw the Egyptians
- 152. For a Bribe Doth Blind the Eyes of the Wise
- 153. A Thought Is an Upshot of the Desire
- 154. There Cannot Be an Empty Space in the World
- 155. The Cleanness of the Body
- 156. Lest He Take of the Tree of Life
- 157. I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake
- 158. The Reason for Not Eating at Each Other's Home on Passover
- 159. And It Came to Pass in the Course of Those Many Days
- 160. The Reason for Concealing the Matzot
- 161. The Matter of the Giving of the Torah
- 162. Concerning the Hazak We Say After Completing the Series
- 163. What the Authors of The Zohar Said
- 164. There Is a Difference between Corporeality and Spirituality
- 165. An Explanation to Elisha's Request of Elijah
- 166. Two Discernments in Attainment
- 167. The Reason Why It Is Called Shabbat Teshuvah
- 168. The Customs of Israel
- 169. Concerning a Complete Righteous
- 170. Thou Shalt Not Have in Thy Pocket a Large Stone
- 171. Zohar, Amor
- 172. The Matter of Prevention and Delays
- 173. Why Do We Say L'chaim
- 174. Concealment
- 175. And If the Way Be Too Long for Thee
- 176. When Drinking Brandy after the Havdala
- 177. Atonements
- 178. Three Partners in Man
- 179. Three Lines
- 180. In the Zohar, Amor
- 181. Honor
- 183. The Discernment of the Messiah
- 184. The Difference between Faith and Mind
- 185. The Uneducated, the Fear of Shabbat Is upon Him
- 188. All the Work Is Only Where There Are Two Ways
- 187. Choosing Labor
- 186. Make Your Shabbat a Weekday, and Do Not Need People
- 189. The Act Affects the Thought
- 190. Every Act Leaves an Imprint
- 191. The Time of Descent
- 192. The Lots
- 193. One Wall Serves Both
- 194. The Complete Seven
- 195. Rewarded—I Will Hasten It
- 196. A Grip for the Externals
- 197. Book, Author, Story
- 198. Freedom
- 199. To Every Man Of Israel
- 200. The Purification of the Masach
- 201. Spirituality and Corporeality
- 202. In the Sweat of Thy Face Shalt Thou Eat Bread
- 203. Man's Pride Shall Bring Him Low
- 204. The Purpose of the Work
- 205. Wisdom Crieth Aloud in the Streets
- 206. Faith and Pleasure
- 207. Receiving in order to Bestow
- 208. Labor
- 209. Three Conditions in Prayer
- 210. A Handsome Flaw in You
- 211. As though Standing before a King
- 212. Embrace of the Right, Embrace of the Left
- 213. Acknowledging the Desire
- 214. Known in the Gates
- 215. Faith
- 216. Right and Left
- 217. If I Am Not for Me, Who Is for Me
- 218. The Torah and the Creator Are One
- 219. Devotion
- 220. Suffering
- 221. Multiple Authorities
- 222. The Part Given to the Sitra Achra to Separate It from the Kedusha
- 223. Clothing, Bag, Lie, Almond
- 224. Yesod de Nukva And Yesod de Dechura
- 225. Raising Oneself
- 226. Written Torah and Oral Torah
- 227. The Reward for a Mitzva–a Mitzva
- 228. Fish before Meat
- 229. Haman Pockets
- 230. The Lord Is High and the Low Will See
- 231. The Purity of the Vessels of Reception
- 232. Completing the Labor
- 233. Pardon, Forgiveness, and Atonement
- 234. Who Ceases Words of Torah and Engages in Conversation
- 235. Looking in the Book Again
- 236. Mine Adversaries Taunt Me All the Day
- 237. For Man Shall Not See Me and Live
- 238. Happy Is the Man Who Does Not Forget Thee and the Son of Man Who Exerts in Thee
- 239. The Difference between Mochin of Shavuot and that of Shabbat Minchah
- 240. Inquire Your Inquirers when They Inquire Your Face
- 241. Call Upon Him while He Is Near
- 242. What Is the Matter of Delighting the Poor on a Good Day, in the Work
- 243. Examining the Shade on the Night of Hoshana Rabbah
- 117. You Labored and Did Not Find, Do Not Believe
- 57. Will Bring Him as a Burned Offering to His Will
- 88. All the Work Is Only Where There Are Two Ways
- 182. Moses and Solomon
- 2. Divinity in Exile
- 82. The Prayer One Should Always Pray
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62. Descends and Incites, Ascends and Complains
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