HaMeor SheBah #66: R' Yaakov Klein - Opportunities for Elevation

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

[Music] friends i hope you're all doing well with ishmael today's teaching from the ma'ari nayam cuts to the root of the vashem doctrine whereas other approaches to yiddishkai looked at negative midos midos as being completely negative to the point that our response to those midos was supposed to be rasamidos to break them to obliterate them to eradicate any small semblance of arrogance or a negative desire or anger and so on and so forth to get rid of them entirely and to break them but it wasn't so much about breaking but about elevating and the root of that understanding and approach is the idea that like cook writes and we discuss this at length in our course phaser hashem as and that means that all of existence is rooted in goodness impurity emerging from the in south from the master of the world himself and that means that the medos that we have within ourselves although they might often times come to negative expression but at the core they're holy and at the root of those medos at the root of gaiva at the root of a negative desire at the root of arrogance and so on and so forth are essentially holy traits it's what the piazza rabbit describes as clean water in a dirty bottle so when we look at the water through the lens of the dirty bottle it may appear as if the water is dirty but that's not so at all it is only the expression the manifestation of these medos when used improperly that enables them to appear as if they're negative but the truth is they only need to be channeled back to holiness and so oftentimes we feel like okay so the basham akadesh is talking about elevation as opposed to to just

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1. 0:02[Music] friends i hope you're all doing well with ishmael today's teaching from the ma'ari nayam…
2. 0:34completely negative to the point that our response to those midos was supposed to be rasamidos…
3. 1:34and that means that all of existence is rooted in goodness impurity emerging from the in…
4. 2:04in a dirty bottle so when we look at the water through the lens of the…
5. 2:35strip away the external facade and see the godliness within to learn how to take a…
6. 3:36they're already tarnished but i am fascinatingly says it's the exact opposite says that sadiq and…
7. 4:08opposite it's a person who has already awakened these medos albeit in a negative way and…
8. 4:38that he shouldn't be feeling sometimes a desire that's deeply rooted for years and years and…
9. 5:08tomorrow to fear what we're enveloped in today's the master of the world and his presence…
10. 5:38we should be hashem to utilize all of those umidos that we have that naturally for…

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