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Rabbi YY Jacobson explores the concept of detachment and unity in Jewish thought.
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[Music] thank you good night foreign [Music] foreign [Music] all right solid yeah yeah yeah foreign [Music] foreign how is it ain't safe by definition it's a contradiction Islam is saying serve the worlds of infinity or to put it differently the word I love comes from the word Helen which means concealment sick so I'll tell you so I asked this question many years ago from the bureau Khan Saturday was answering he'll do with it what you want he said preach Simpson the question was if it's post-symptom so to some Islam it's a world of infinity if it's a world it's already some type of uh Consciousness structure some some concealment spiritual space and time she said there is a language that preached symptoms that's his expression there was no space for the world what does it mean there was no space as we said unless it doesn't mean there was no physical space that too if I'm sitting in this chair you can't occupy this chair because it's already taken the himself already took up everything conceptually and physically but he means much more than that there was no conceptual space like if somebody in Yeshiva says asvara says an idea right when somebody says this idea has no place this this idea has no place what do you mean there's no place there's no chair for it and there's no chair there's no stand there for it has no place means it doesn't exist it's foolish it's an impossibility it has no place in the universe of logic the universe of stupidity it has a place but in the universe of logic there's no place for it because it's not a possibility it's ridiculous it's absurd it's not what it means it doesn't make sense right it's Folly Etc foreign in reality there was no place you know
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- 0:02[Music] thank you…
- 5:58God is well everywhere so there's no space somewhere where do I come in if Hashem…
- 12:08the way it's experienced in a person as we will see the nishamas is the one…
- 18:16its head reaches heaven right so he named malakia like even the malachim go up and…
- 24:29is a revelation of ainsife which needs explanation of course but that's uh that was the…
- 30:48going to stay here I'm not staying here to stay here but Sarah it doesn't mean…
- 36:57that's where all healing comes from I must have huh they're a big therapists that's it's…
- 43:07than everybody else then it's already a fake title like the Gamora says it's not always…
- 49:51you understand there's a layer of reality we are this is how things are experienced and…
- 57:46are like the body to the soul are like the garments of the body there's a…
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- Shiur — 1h 29m, by Rabbi YY Jacobson
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