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Maamar Mekoshesh 5713 #2: We Love Using Our Brains to Make Sense of Life; But It Keeps Us Miserable

A text-based class on the Maamar Vayeyu Benei Yisroel Bamidbar Vayimtzeu Eish Mekoshesh…

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A text-based class on the Maamar Vayeyu Benei Yisroel Bamidbar Vayimtzeu Eish Mekoshesh Eitzim.

A 2h 0m chassidus shiur by Rabbi YY Jacobson. Like every video on Lehallel, it was judged and approved under the Lehallel law before it ever appeared — no unreviewed result is ever shown.

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Maamar Mekoshesh 5713 #2: We Love Using Our Brains to Make Sense of Life; But It Keeps Us Miserable1:59:58

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

Israel attacked Iran last night in a massive massive attack. They took out some top generals and nuclear scientists and uh yeah bombed a lot of facilities apparently stunning some stunning incredible attack. I mean across different parts of the country, you know, Iran is a huge country. They start putting weapons all around. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Last night, Zion 7 June 13th shall go down into history as the day they eliminated uh Yeah. Iran's nuclear threat. Yeah. Where is the microphone? Huh? Yeah. Yeah. It's like a naspur because uh you're talking about realum over there. [Music] Yeah. So, we'll learn today dedicated to uh the air force and all of the soldiers involved and all of the pilots involved and all of the leaders involved. should be able to eliminate the enemy completely and bring peace to a world desperately in need of it. Amen. Okay, moa, we're good. What? Yeah. [Music] Yeah. Okay. So we begun yesterday 1953. Today's class is dedicated in loving memory basis and for a complete and speedy recovery for bas ya and for halevi Ben for many more good long healthy happy prosperous years with full health dedicated by Rabarak Ysef Marov and his family. Thank you very very much and a to all the blessings and thank you for your partnership. So we began the mimer. We learned till we're middle of chapter 3, page five in the copies. We're middle of page five. The paragraph on top. We're middle of that paragraph, right? Yeah. Okay. We're good to Okay. So we'll continue now. So what did we learn? The summation was after the questions about the mishim the interpretation of the z that it means he was comparing trees the tree of life the tree of knowledge seeing which one is greater which is a

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  1. 0:00Israel attacked Iran last night in a massive massive attack. They took out some top generals
  2. 6:07that you're stealing with something that it's holy. It it belongs to LMI as he says
  3. 12:27so therefore tomorrow somebody else can uh can attract it can attract my mitsas that was
  4. 19:54you know that they don't have a self, but they're so connected that the it's a
  5. 26:18relationship. At least here, there's something stable happening. And one day, he or she will be
  6. 32:43one is outside of says The same is true also in what do we mean in
  7. 38:53self right and has so so yeah I could only see a certain part of you
  8. 45:29And some of that glimmer of it we can perceive and it's incredible. But the real
  9. 52:06mean the experience of it. Yeah. Don't mean remain stuck in your egoic mind and fight
  10. 58:20see it now so his father said it stopped so he tells his father it's so

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