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From the Chick to the Egg -- Why Is It So Challenging to Get from Intellect to Emotions?
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
WhatsApp. >> I'll come back. Yeah. Amen. Amen. >> Yeah. Beautiful. >> What could be in the year 2000? Yeah, >> you're so smart. I never knew you so smart. [laughter] >> What are you hacking a chic? Not really. Don't worry. >> You could say whatever you want. >> It's not how I was brought up, but okay. >> Huh? >> It's not how I was brought up, but okay. >> That's why That's why you need it, maybe. >> [snorts] >> If you were brought up that way, I would tell you not to say whatever you want. >> Ah, and Wilks. >> Beautiful. >> Very special. Very special place. WS. >> Unbelievable. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Good morning everybody. Welcome to everybody. It's been a while. Our last year was before Purim. So I missed you. We're back. So we'll begin a new today in honor of Pesak. [snorts] Okay. Just to announce that Thursday morning I'm not here. So it'll be a sh Friday morning because this Thursday I'm not here. So um I won't be able to come. So Friday morning bas at 8. We'll continue the mimer. Okay. This uh this uh class is dedicated by our dear friend Ezra David Phillip in honor of all of the brave and amazing soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces Ali and the Air Force who are guarding and protecting our eternal homeland and our eternal people in the midst of the major war between Israel and America and Iran that began Shabas Parad a few days before Purim. and is continuing. May Hashem protect all of his people and obliterate the malikites of our time.
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- 0:05WhatsApp. >> I'll come back. Yeah. Amen. Amen. >> Yeah. Beautiful.…
- 6:27were not they were long >> come from their homes after >> whoever wanted not everybody…
- 12:42so on this says all the way So Ramban says that that's taken out and then…
- 18:50the of night and that's two and one is but now the question is what are…
- 25:08there's three physical sections in the brain that are they are the place the physical space…
- 31:21Now you say no no this is reality. Fine. This is reality. I get it for…
- 37:39time meaning it's not a natural transformation between it's not means it's not take if this…
- 43:49experience because I I don't have an experience of it. So that's why he says midas…
- 50:00seed here it's two opposites requires self forgetfulness self-trcendence mid is all about self-experience self assertion…
- 56:15ta the original word means let's say it has an illness that within 12 months it's…
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