The Gate of Unity and Faith: (Class #4) Higher Unity vs. Lower Unity (Ch.1)

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

okay here we go this class is based on the tanya with the explanation of rabbi adin even israel stein saltz over the last few weeks we did the introduction to which are the gates of unity and faith we now begin this week with chapter number one so if you have the tanya at home this way to look open up the book to page 39 we're going to read the hebrew and translate it into english and with god's help try to elaborate at certain areas here we go fraction the zaya statement that the verse that we say every day at least twice a day in the morning and evening hear o israel god is our lord god is one and the statement of which follows the shama which is blessed be the name of his glorious kingdom forever and ever this represents the higher unity shame represents the lower unit what is the higher unity what is the lower unity in short because later we're going to explain this in greater lengths in tanya in chapter seven but now you throw when you put your hand over your eyes what you're saying is there's no other existence there's no other reality besides god and that's why you cover your eyes because what do i see when i cover my eyes i see nothing because in truth there is nothing there is no world i don't exist the only thing that exists is god that's called the higher unity then you have the lower unity blessed be the name of his glorious kingdom forever and ever what are we saying here yes there is a world there is a table there's a chair there's a house there are people however all of these different objects all of these different creations

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1. 0:00okay here we go this class is based on the tanya with the explanation of rabbi…
2. 3:59there's nothing else besides god these are two levels also on god's unity we will elaborate…
3. 7:34it says over there forever lord does your word stand in the heavens of hasidism introduced…
4. 11:07from it for an instant god forbid the earth is it would literally revert to absolute…
5. 14:42and there's such many stories like this of many sadiq but the point over here is…
6. 18:19now page 44. the zeiss and even actual inanimate entities cleverness like stone and like sand…
7. 22:04over there he explains hamisha cardover or cordovera explains over there that we take the letters…
8. 25:47it's so powerful that if he simply said these ten utterances or a hundred utterances he…
9. 29:28create existence from nothingness and sustain it for eternity this answers a very interesting famous concept…
10. 33:05creation and now it becomes revealed now the lab continues not to say page 49 on…

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