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An introduction to Rebbe Nachman's tale about emuna and intellectual sophistication.
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[Music] with Hashem's loving grace. Welcome to Rebi Nakman's Tales. Tonight we begin the clever one and the simple one. It's one of my favorites and one of David's two. Uh it we hear the the theme song we wrote about at Bashem and it's a tale that teaches us so much about life and like all of Rabbi Nakman's tales the clever one and the simple one is a kaleidoscope superficially it's a guide to happiness and success just how to be happy and on a deeper level it signifies the battle between simple amuna and intellectual sophistication. So today's lesson introduces us to our two protagonists, the simple one and the clever one. Uh at the end we'll try to have time for questions. Now what we plan on doing is like this is everyone first of all to get everyone familiarized with Rabbi Nman's tale. Uh because there's no point going in in depth uh interpreting it until we get to know. So this probably take us two lessons just to tell the story. We're going to tell the story with a little bit of direction as we see things some salient points that we should pay attention to not forget because we're going to need to need to know them afterwards and uh then afterward we'll go back in in-depth learning. But one thing with Hashem's loving grace, I promise everybody that when we finish this lesson, you're going to be a lot happier because this lesson is applied amuna. Rabbi Nakman said, "My fire will burn until Mashiach comes." And what it is is Rabbi Alba says when you won't be able to understand my teachings, my discourses, my Torah, then I'm going to tell you stories and you'll understand my stories. This is Rabbi says that this Rabbi Ala's stories could be understood on a basic level that like you would tell an an
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- 0:00[Music] with Hashem's loving grace. Welcome to Rebi Nakman's Tales. Tonight we begin the clever one…
- 4:35and the clever one. But they learned trades. Okay. So the first uh Reb talks about…
- 9:49they parted peacefully and they parted amicably and uh he went and now offered himself to…
- 15:03does Hashem want me to do? He's philosophy. What is the best thing for me to…
- 20:07and three months. Everything learns in three months. A quarter year and he became a big…
- 25:13expertise and he took a wife but he made a bare living with this craft. So…
- 30:18drink. That's why he was at clothing. He and his wife, they shared Reb now calls…
- 35:25day long. Okay. But he says, "Why should I talk about other people? They have their…
- 40:34returning the returning dignitary. And the simple man, he also came. He to his long lost…
- 45:40feeling for anyone other than himself. So, still the simple one is always happy. The clever…
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