That is why this world with all it contains is called the world of kelipot and sitra achra — despite the fact that this world, too, receives its vital...

Now, each of these three distinctions and grades — Nefesh, Ruach and Neshamah — consists of ten faculties1 The post Chapter 03 – Part 1 – video podcas...

In addition [to its ten faculties — discussed in ch. 3], every divine soul (nefesh elokit) possesses three garments. The post Chapter 04 – Part 1 – vi...

Next his contemplation will give birth to the attribute of Chesed, expressed as a love of G‑d, so that his heart will glow with an intense love of G‑d...

[Only] concerning repentance out of such great love has it been said9 that [the penitent’s] premeditated sins become, for him, like virtues, since thr...

Now these three “garments” deriving from the Torah and its commandments, though they are called [merely] “garments” of the Nefesh, Ruach and Neshamah,...

כי על ידי דביקה בתלמידי חכמים, קשורות נפש רוח ונשמה של עמי הארץ ומיוחדות במהותן הראשון ושרשם שבחכמה עילאהFor, through attachment to the scholars, the ...

In the previous chapters the Alter Rebbe elaborated on the composition of the Jew’s divine soul with its ten holy soul-powers and three soul-garments,...

We shall now learn what is necessary for the rectification of permitted words not spoken for the sake of heaven.ועל דברים בטלים בהיתר, כגון עם הארץ שא...

ועוד זאת במאכלות אסורות, שלכך נקראים בשם איסורThere is an additional aspect in the matter of forbidden foods, for which reason they are called issur (...