The Power of Being Alone: Discovering Hisbodedus

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

in a sh in sh we're starting a new today in the second saer 25 this to is all about the great great secrets of his as to see this is a t that's like a partner a pair with Torah gim that we just learned about the power of and now is taking us to the world of hisus hisus is an interesting word because it's reflexive go dead means to be alone that you're B to be alone so his is the process of becoming alone it's going through a process of being alone and we'll have to get into this but the world doesn't really like that they usually run away from being alone and if people are by themselves you think think it's like strange like like what like what are you doing I always say imagine you're walking with your wife and kids and you're in Central Park and uh you see a guy sitting on a bench he's not learning a safer he's not on his phone he's not texting anything he's just sitting and he maybe even looks at you and gives you a smile at that point what do you think to yourself run this guy's nuts he's crazy book it now could be he is nutsi or maybe he's actually just being alone with God and he's much more sane than we are you don't always know but we generally as a society run away from being alone even in yes you're learning with your youra gets up for one second you go on your phone you do something what do you mean just you can't be alone with your

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2. 4:46alone and we're going to learn that being alone is not something that you have to…
3. 10:11of just being alone with God because there's nothing but God so in order to get…
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7. 31:18emotionally in that language then I would be very careful of timeing the not because yes…
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10. 48:16the braa and you're working through that piece of Gara and the world is like you…

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