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The Quantum Leap From No-Thingness to Thingness

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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desolateness on earth so the muslims and the murder is actually trying to bring out that names schmuck agarium that names have significance they they have meaning they represent something that's talking there about about the power of name significance of names so usually when we read in khazal al-tikri don't read this read this it could seem a little strange like so you should have written that you know we say every morning doesn't mean he called he made other people call out wasn't he himself was calling vayakari he influenced other people right so it's not some it's like okay we we have a new interpretation so far and i'll take you to this without think i'll tickle it don't read it we're used to it because you grow up with it what's the text says something don't read it this way read it this way you're not saying it was a mistake right it's written that way the shot of course is it's much deeper than that is in order to get to the depth of what the word means you have to understand the other dimension of the word so this is how you have to learn right al-tikra vayikra ella vayakri if you want this should be vayikra you need the vayakri there won't be a vayikra without a vayacri so dalton says doesn't just mean destruction shamas means sheamus because the beginning of shmama the beginning of the tremendous quantum leap between ultimate reality which is pure infinity and reality which is defined by words and letters and descriptions and definitions that's what shamus are on one hand it brings out the extraordinary quality of sheamus which is what the gemara is saying that a name captures something very real about a person like

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