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Doing a Mitzvah vs. Not Doing an Aveirah: Which is Higher?

A shiur exploring the exalted light of passive service of Hashem and the concepts of Soveiv and…

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A shiur exploring the exalted light of passive service of Hashem and the concepts of Soveiv and Memaleh.

A 55 min hashkafa shiur by Rabbi Yaakov Klein. Like every video on Lehallel, it was judged and approved under the Lehallel law before it ever appeared — no unreviewed result is ever shown.

Doing a Mitzvah vs. Not Doing an Aveirah: Which is Higher?
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Okay. What a privilege to learn together. Thank you so much for joining us for coming. Um I don't think last week we didn't have because last week was like and I was elsewhere and we had begun this teaching right if you remember take a look inside Alf the teaching and I believe we were speaking about the two kinds of you remember we spoke about adim and ader where the kluger drew a distinction ader where the kluger drew a distinction between the adim of Din Minus, right? Witnesses come to testify about uh some kind of monetary law or some kind of D necess right where they come to sort of deliver testimony about a thing that happened. And we said that the thing that happened is something completely external to their involvement. They just witnessed it. The thing that happened happened. They happened to be there. They watched it. But they're watching it had nothing to do with the thing happening, right? do with the thing happening, right? Their whole testimony is simply this that they come after the fact and they testify as to the uh the occurrence of the thing that they witnessed the thing that that took place. However, a day is in the topic of and if you have a wedding that doesn't have the adim, right? The wedding is called into question. When you have gen uh experience of divorce, you don't have

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  1. 0:10Okay. What a privilege to learn together. Thank you so much for joining us for coming.…
  2. 5:20nature of reality and we can all come together like you saw that thing I posted…
  3. 10:59that's in this that the medish tells us that when a person stands up to say…
  4. 16:14about that's one concept with the marriage so to speak like we had learned also at…
  5. 21:55know, is something different? Maybe is also going to shabas is going to fine. But generally…
  6. 27:38in talis ko is the surrounding light and it's very very important and for every person…
  7. 32:44I'm talking about if you wanted to say because that's the that's the novelty that's not…
  8. 38:22the things that we experience as bad if everything is good? So what's the between them?…
  9. 43:27expressivity because over here you see the flip the opposite of the reality of that person's…
  10. 49:08infusion of soul. That's miach. That's this that's the spirit that we're longing for yearning for.…

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