On the Essence of Chasidus (chs. 2-3)

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

welcome to class number two of country on the shelter or what we call in english on the essence of siddhis again this is a project we're doing in partnership with hayeno every week in hyena they have an excerpt of the mimer and we're going to be learning the excerpt that is that is there in that week's issue so if you remember last week we discussed four possible definitions or descriptions of what sid this is what's it is what's it all about and just to review um the first one was the more of the historical right that was so this came along during a critical juncture uh in history for the jewish people uh and and roused them from their from their faint-like state second one was uh siddhis is an ethical system to teach us to go beyond the letter of the law like the one who burns his nails like it talks about in the talmud um even though he's not required to do so but he takes the extra step to do so um then we spoke about siddhis as a a system for the transformation of character traits to actually not only change natural tendencies but the nature of tendencies themselves and we explain the the what the novelty of that statement is uh and then the fourth possible description of see this we said it's a language for um making the esoteric namely the kabbalistic relatable even for people who are not very spiritually lofty or or sensitive and those were the four suggested uh definitions and if you want to review that again you can watch uh class 1 over again but this is just to you know get us up to speed all right now let's look in chapter 2 as the rebel now rejects all four of those definitions not because any any of them are

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