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Why Do Many Feel That if Judaism Isn't Miserable, It Is Not Real? Likkutei Torah V'atah Yigdal #3

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

Why Do Many Feel That if Judaism Isn't Miserable, It Is Not Real? Likkutei Torah V'atah Yigdal #3

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top it should say in [snorts] the Hebrew it's lame column one. Litess column one. [snorts] We're middle of civ bay. Where are we holding? Right. So the line begins 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 like 15 or 16 lines from the bottom. You see all the great uh spiritual experiences that the greatest of the attained was only as a result and connected to the joy of the mitzvah. Yeah. Is referring specifically to the Arizal especially who says it clearly as I mentioned last time. No. Okay. Today's class before we begin is dedicated by Dan Gober with heartfelt wishes for a complete and speedy recovery of a for all is a dedicated to our brothers and sisters in the holy land who came again under attack from Iran last night. May Hashem protect them and crush the enemy completely. We should see complete victory and complete redemption. Amen. >> In the meill, right? It says is the day that um the king, right, the huh guys? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He sent the letters, the second letters [snorts] that the Jews can defend themselves against. Yeah. The king had transcribed in letters everything that Esther asked him that the Jews should be able to defend themselves against Hmon in Iran. Yeah, that's the 23rd of seven. Okay. The main point we brought out, the main point Alba made in the last section here is that there's two aspects or two ways or two dimensions in mitzvah in the celebration and the observance of mitzvah. One is that the p both are very even the

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  1. 0:32top it should say in [snorts] the Hebrew it's lame column one. Litess column one. [snorts]…
  2. 6:11the mitzvah with the core truth of it with the core purity of it. It's like…
  3. 12:21my deed comes first now before this guy bought you as a slave I already got…
  4. 18:30a lot of spiritual attainments and a lot of spiritual levels and nonetheless the person doesn't…
  5. 24:35that. What made me moa was only because he was more humble than if he was…
  6. 30:51I got an email this morning. Somebody sent me an email. I don't know who it…
  7. 37:05he's saying. But in many ways, I wouldn't be able to really understand what he's saying…
  8. 43:16braas were came in by no brah you didn't make braas on anything not on mitzvah…
  9. 49:27egotistical broken part that's just trying to defend itself." It's not. And I've done that for…
  10. 55:35tighter and he screams more. Screams more. And what do you do? I know what you…

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