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Torah Or Ki Ka'asher #3: The Only Valuable Words in Life

1.9K views · Nov 5, 2024

Rabbi YY Jacobson

A class on the value of words that express silence and spiritual longing.

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Okay, good morning everybody. Welcome. [snorts] We're middle of the page two. The second in the page two, the second column. Okay. The line starts uh the line starts. It's like 10 15 lines from the bottom. The line starts with a parenthesis. It's a long parenthesis of like eight lines. So we'll start before the parenthesis. We already learned the parenthesis, but we'll go before and then after the parenthesis. What was the main point that we were learning about? We were learning about what the says says says that the whole system of all of the all of the angelic beings the refers usually to the it's rat from the word which means running and also from the word ratsen which means desire and sh from the word lash which is to return and this represents the fact that the entire movement, the entire structure so to speak of life of the kay to speak of life of the kay has this paradox and this duality that comes together of rats and rats is tension and shv is resolution. Rats says is the desire to move away from where I am searching for something longing for something which is every ratsen every desire is the person not content that's what desire is and that's why ratsen comes from the word ruts it's like you're running somewhere I want to get away from here I want to go there sometimes one of them sometimes

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  1. 0:01Okay, good morning everybody. Welcome. [snorts] We're middle of the page two. The second in the
  2. 6:25I want to overcome the overcome overcome the void. And the last point we learned was
  3. 12:38I don't know if that there was a classic disagreement about this. It's just I guess
  4. 19:08something moderately like [music] it. It's either all or nothing because the extremism which unfortunately destroys
  5. 25:13whatever it is. You know, all of the Jews who became communists and socialists, like some
  6. 31:22stand there and you continue to, it's not a good thing to scream, but you continue
  7. 37:34He was born 1948 from creation 1948. Just uh good historical uh trivia 19 one nine
  8. 43:51Yeah. Yeah. So what do I wanted to bring out one thing that uh oh so
  9. 50:03lunchroom and he declared that he's an atheist. He doesn't believe in God anymore. It was
  10. 56:16healing from a human therapist. He won't get healing from that therapist unless that therapist will

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