(If you missed any of parts 1 – 4, see their posts in The Kloiz Aspaqlaria category.)

Thursday night (Mar 31st, 2022) 7^pm EDT we completed our study of Maharal, Derekh haChaim 1:2, and started looking at the source material for the Vilna Gaon’s Peirush al Kama Agados, agadah #14.

Go to https://thekloiz.aishdas.org for links to the Zoom room, a link to join the WhatsApp group, to recordings of past shiurim, and the other posts like this one.

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The resource sheet for the Maharal is on Sefaria at https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/385854
and the sheet for the Vilna Gaon is at https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/386936

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Our first weeks at Zelmele’s Kloiz had lots of wonderful give and take, and many of us stayed on afterward for exciting discussions. (Which personally, I found quite informative.) This week (Thu Apr 7^th) is a great time to join, as we start a new text — the Vilna Gaon’s Peirush al Kamah Agados, agadah #14!

The story so far (the table may yet grow with the Gra):

Tov	Inherent / Relationship to Soul	Relationship to Hashem	Relationship to Others
Crowns	Torah	Kehunah	Kingship
Crowned Kelim	Aron	Mizbeiach haZahav	Shulchan
Uncrowned Keilim	Menorah	Mizbeiach Nekhoshes	Kiyor
Pillars	Torah	Avodah	Gemilus Chasadim
Uprooting Sin	Gilui Arayos	Avodah Zara	Shefichas Damim
Sustains the world	… gives the world value.	… for it was created liKhvodi	… causes Hashem’s Chessed to the world
Avos	Yaaqov	Yitzchaq	Avraham
Yaaqov/Yisrael as Synthesis	Yaaqov Rivqa’s two bracelets of 5 gold each	Yitchaq Rivqa’s nose-ring	Rivqa
Sefer haYetzirah “Mother Letters”	א	ש	מ
Non-Intert Elements	Air/Wind (אוויר)	Fire (אש)	Water (מים)
Element as Middah	Thought in Torah	Passion / “Hislahavus“ in Avodah	Calm / Unity in relating to other people
Anshei Keneses haGadolah	Establishing many students	Diligence in Law	Making a siyag laTorah (i.e. morality rather than precise Law)
Dynaic	Middle (Synthesis or Dialectic)	Truth / Law	Peace / Lovingkingness