Kabbalah on Why Cats Chase Mice

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okay fantastic so here we are taking a look at the sources that are actually um still a continuation in a certain sense of which we've been learning for the last couple of weeks if you remember the previous year that we had we spoke about the concept of thead and what that means in the concept of or the context rather a bre live and the idea of of the tadic being hidden if you're remember we spoke about the idea um of of not everyone meriting to behold the great light of the Revelation that the sadic is bringing to the world and we learned this lengthy teaching from Ras in K where Ras was teaching us about this idea um about why there are obstacles for people to access that that light um and and and just I'm just looking at this one line which is toward the end the teaching which we learned last time where the says and this is also good the concealment of this light because from that standpoint not everyone has access to the light of the because a person who has not merited a person who has not managed to break past the obstacles of the physical experience and it's not really on the level where they can access that that Revelation so he says it would be too much it would be too much for that person because it would like we learned last time it would blind it would blind the person um therefore says the says says therefore it's much better for for um for for there not to be any access at all it would be too great a light and so I just wanted to finish off and round out sort of round out this teaching with another teaching on the topic and this

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1. 0:01okay fantastic so here we are taking a look at the sources that are actually um…
2. 5:20cat which is the cat's enemy we're speaking about the the mouse that is constantly pursuing…
3. 11:09generally speaking in terms of their sustaining the physical experience these meas are called being teach…
4. 16:49how they talk and how they spend their time and how they and how they think…
5. 23:11and over there it says that the purpose for going up to the B mikdash is…
6. 28:54something that's rectified not extra only what's Absolut Ely necessary and therefore has enjoyment from what…
7. 34:11mouse which just sort of sits on its funds without without allocating them appropriately to those…
8. 39:53becoming revealed in the world at long last at the right time not a minute before…
9. 45:36idea in order for these mice to be cut down they need to be cut down…
10. 51:15the everything moving toward tikon it's part of a process of productivity but these Rogue agents…

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