Shovavim Series - Episode 5: Fire, Water & Desert | Rabbi Nachum Binder

What’s said in this shiur

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

[music] [bell] Paras. We're finally here. The purpose of alah that day that the entire bria was created for that yim hashishi the day of matra kazal point out to us that was given specifically by midbar that had to be given only When Kali Israel was in the midbar and actually there are three different inal kazal tell us was it was given over with fire is compared to water and was midbar and that he said in yeshiva's Lublin in the year 1931 Shapiro explained why these three things a mim and midbar are prerequisites for kabala and he said a represents a venu's first action of ms nephesh the ms nephesh of ready to be thrown into the fire when his father turned them over to the authorities for proclaiming their are nothing and the is the creator of the world but that was the action of an individual zapiim may represents Israel's nephesh by the yams [snorts] within The entire cl was ready to go into the water, the raging waters. Cuz theam said it wasn't only the action of an individual. It was the action of a clal zapiro. One-time actions of Ms. nephesh are phenomenal accomplishments but that doesn't tell us about how the person is going to live his life and then we were faced with the nan of midbar midbar was going into a situation following the lead not knowing from where we will have food or drink not knowing where will we stop where will we sleep. Clal wasn't only doing an act of msesh, but they were devoting their lives with messes to the

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1. 0:01[music] [bell] Paras. We're finally here. The purpose of alah that day that the entire bria…
2. 0:31kazal point out to us that was given specifically by midbar that had to be given…
3. 1:43for proclaiming their are nothing and the is the creator of the world but that was…
4. 2:48following the lead not knowing from where we will have food or drink not knowing where…
5. 3:55not from clinging to that and ready to give up our lives for it. But may…
6. 5:12to enjoy. But sometimes gullus takes on the form of mayim. Mayim represents tyus. The mayim…
7. 5:47falter. the kaimmate. Thousands of homes where fathers and children are sitting and learning, enjoying, throwing…
8. 6:51where to go, not knowing what to do. And in those moments we also renew our…
9. 7:54that are threatening the existence of should be. But that commitment and that growth that we…
10. 8:54nothing will be able to move and if we reaffirm that commitment and we make that…

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