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Egypt’s Borrowed Power

A discussion on the true power of speech and its relevance to Jewish wisdom and…

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A discussion on the true power of speech and its relevance to Jewish wisdom and hashkafa.

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Mendel Kessin’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

The motion appears to motion by name and says, "What's in your hand?" He says, "A staff." What's that staff? Staff of motion, right? Not that I shall, right? Throw it to the ground. Throw it to the ground becomes a nachash. Bend down, pick it up, becomes a matter again, you know? What was that? What is the motion doing? The staff of God is the kidusha. If you take the staff and you throw it down, that's the kidusha. Who's hearing it? The sudden. So, the staff becomes a snake from the matter. And then when the motion said, "Pick it up." and it became a matter, that meant that Egypt had no switches left. Go to power and tell him he's finished because the Jews after 400 years had taken out all the >> [clears throat] >> switches of the sudden. The sudden was starving. That's what Egypt really was. So, motion by name comes over to power and says, "So, power, let him go." So, power says, "You talk about you let him go." So, motion by name says, "You don't understand something. You don't have any power

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  1. 0:00The motion appears to motion by name and says, "What's in your hand?" He says, "A…
  2. 0:32And then when the motion said, "Pick it up." and it became a matter, that meant…
  3. 1:03left. You have no power left. You think your power comes from magic, you know, and…
  4. 1:33what they thought. The reason why motion by name was so incredible in magic is because…
  5. 2:04did kingdom lice, lice is less than the size of a barley grain. So, the magicians…
  6. 2:3510 sefirot. Because God interacts with the Briah with 10 sefirot, and we are a model…

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