Weekly Hashkafa Shiur #67 | The Power of a Jew

What’s said in this shiur

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

we have now finished circus and this shabbos is parshas gracious so i thought would be very good is to talk about judaism in an incredibly fundamental way to really get down to the what's called the the basic blocks of judaism and to talk about exactly and to talk about exactly what is mankind all about and what is a jew really all about that will provide you with a fundamental understanding of what is going on in terms of admiration in terms of mankind you know all kinds of situations and so on you know and i thought that would be very and i thought that would be very valuable because you would have an insider's view of what really everything is about and what the mashiach does what his power is you see when it uh what it ends and you could start with the fact that that the two ideas one is this god now god is not part of reality reality is part of god sounds like it's plain words but it's not no it's not that there's a reality and god is part of that you know you know he's he's obviously real so he's part of whatever is called reality no there is no reality there's only god there is no reality there's only god so reality whatever is is all part of him there's nothing outside of him that we could designate as a reality different than he is that's a very important concept really you know no it's the whole essence of reality what it is is god and whatever there is of reality is what he made

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1. 0:00we have now finished circus and this shabbos is parshas gracious so i thought would be…
2. 6:10there's some type of an operational action that god does which can restrict his manifestation thereby…
3. 12:21then he creates another reality in potential which unfortunately became actualized is the reality of the…
4. 18:30his manifestation you actually undo it and you increase the presence if you do the mitzvah…
5. 24:40and the the the darkest aspect of reality which i mentioned is the zoyama which is…
6. 30:45can manipulate not manner but he can manipulate neither molecules nor um energy or whatever atoms…
7. 36:58every single jew has that power at birth automatically that's the genetic gift you know that's…
8. 43:16remember the the clippers the zoyama these are blockages so the first thing you have to…
9. 49:27if they're doing the jews that aren't doing cuba they're still getting they're still doing mitch…
10. 55:34god commanded you to have children right to take on after you and the way you…

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