Tanya

כי מיכאל שר של מים וגבריאל שר של אש, ואין מכבין זה את זה

“Michael is the prince of water and Gabriel is the prince of fire, yet they do not extinguish one another.”

* Arch Angel Michael, Prince of Hessed, Kindness, Water

* Arch Angel Gabriel, Prince of Gevurah, Justice, Severity, Fire

Listen to full explanation here:

http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=138441

Read More here:

(...when you read & listen to this, always keep in mind that G-D continueously speaks to us through information input, coming through your eyes:::::situations, text, speach, history, and reality::::::now, before your time, and always:::::::literally between your eyes, in front of your face...because It is as close to You as You Yourself...it is the collective Us as well as the Individual You...and you, me, us, are all It, and It is just Infinite Permutations of a Single One.)

the Midah of Yakov is of Rachmanus, Tiferet.

Armor of Charity

Iggeret HaKodesh, beginning of Epistle 3

וילבש צדקה כשריון, וכובע ישועה בראשו

“And He wore upon himself tzedakah as a coat of armor, and a helmet of salvation upon his head.”

"if you want to cleave to G-D, what do you do? hug a tree?" (LOL!)

Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon - Tanya: Chapter 2 (30:00)

Likutei Amarim, Chapter 2

ונפש השנית בישראל היא חלק אלו-ה ממעל ממש

The second, uniquely Jewish, soul is truly “a part of G-d above,”

in text, in a lesson, and in Tefillah...

Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon- Tanya: Chapter 1 - Part 2 (30:00)

Likutei Amarim, end of Chapter 1

והא דאמרינן בעלמא דמחצה על מחצה מקרי בינוני ורוב זכיות מקרי צדיק

they say, if you give G-D 30 minutes of your time to study His divine will [Torah], He will give you a thousand times more of His time, by making room in the minds of others...

so if you have a few minutes, watch this Kabbalistic explanation of the Anatomy of Souls, Angels, The 4 Divine Worlds and what connects everything together, delivered by the crazy brilliant:

Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon - Tanya, Kuntres Acharon, Essay 4 (29:05)