Speaking Unity – Text Based Study

If you don't feel love for G-d is it possible to "create" love? Should the mysteries of divine union remain mysteries, or do they provide the foundation upon which all spiritual advancement depends? The first in a series of classes on Part Two of the foundational work of Chabad thought, Likutei Amarim - Tanya: "Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah," by the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.

Marking the 260th yahrtzeit of the Baal Shem Tov, we discuss his teaching on union through speech, whether in prayer, Torah study, or in any other utterance, however mundane. This helps us to understand the significance of this treatise by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi and its relationship to the fundamental mission of the Baal Shem Tov.

What does personal Divine providence mean and why should we believe in it? Does the principle of providence conflict with the principle of free will? What does all this have to do with the philosophical argument that the world must be recreated anew every moment of every day? The fourth in a series of classes on Part Two of the foundational work of Chabad thought, Likutei Amarim - Tanya: "Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah," by the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.

The physical world presents its reality as a brute fact. But is it really nothing? The fifth in a series of classes on Part Two of the foundational work of Chabad thought, Likutei Amarim - Tanya: "Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah," by the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.

Why is the world not transparent to the divine word that brings it into being out of nothing at every moment? The sixth in a series of classes on Part Two of the foundational work of Chabad thought, Likutei Amarim - Tanya: "Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah," by the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.

Explore the dual dynamic at play in creation, prophecy, and in the celestial experience of the souls in the Garden of Eden. The seventh in a series of classes on Part Two of the foundational work of Chabad thought, Likutei Amarim - Tanya: "Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah," by the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.

Can nature itself be understood as a facet of the divine? The eighth in a series of classes on Part Two of the foundational work of Chabad thought, Likutei Amarim - Tanya: "Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah," by the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.