Zos Chukas 5721 #1: Your Consciousness is Like Fire: Try to Define it and Control It and You Lose It

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oh [Music] you know good morning everybody and welcome to one and all we begin a new today since this week is par and it's also par shabas so this is actually a m a discourse that said on shabas which was also as you see in the headline as you know in the four pares that we read in other so you have and then you have Z and then you have and then you have so it happens to be that this year and come together which means you read and then at the end we also take out a second and at the end we read the second par of which is the beginning of Paras literal reason is because these four pares are connected to this time of the year of course is the Jewish people used to give in the month of so we do it before the beginning of and is before to remember and is the one carbon that everybody had to bring individually not just collectively which you weren't responsible for but individually was the carbon PES that every Jew had to bring every Jew had to be a part of and as a result of that you had to clean you had to be pure you couldn't eat a carbon or bring a carbon if you weren't Pur everybody had to make sure if they needed the cleansing of the parum of the red heer to be able to purify them so they can go to the B Mikes have the P offered and then eat it on the night of p and then the last one is which is about the preparations for p

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3. 13:24the way to the house and goes after her and then she goes home so now…
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6. 32:11somebody wrote to him I don't understand shabas is supposed to rest he said what's the…
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8. 44:40person and turn these words into a picture of of of what's being described there it's…
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10. 57:30artists to look at their pieces of work because they knew what state they were in…

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