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Compassion for the Distance Between Who I Am & Who I Think I Am - Likkutei Torah V'atah Yigdal #1

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

Compassion for the Distance Between Who I Am & Who I Think I Am - Likkutei Torah V'atah Yigdal #1

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Good morning everybody. Welcome. So we have this first to begin a new mind that today. We will learn the partial the mind of you get all the other which is Look at the partial slot. Lama column three or page 76. Lama column three Lama [clears throat] column or 76 on top of it should say slot it's all the way on the bottom of the page of you get all not yet at now. See Lama column three all the way on the bottom of the column. >> This year this week in Eretz Yisrael they're reading already Parshas Shlach. I also said by Eretz Yisrael it's Shlach because the second day Shavuos we had Shavuos and they had Parshas Nasso. So they got ahead of us. So when they were reading Nasso we were still celebrating Shavuos and therefore the next week we did Nasso and they already went on to Balak. So this week they're learning Shlach. >> [snorts] >> So we get to connect with our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land by learning at least Likkutei Torah Shlach and of course it's a longer maamar. So uh we'll continue a few shiurim here. Now Likkutei Torah Shlach is extremely rich parsha of my maamarim where our Rebbe explains the his revolutionary ideas about the Meraglim, the mistake of the Meraglim, the sin of the Meraglim. Very counterintuitive to how the Meraglim are usually perceived throughout history. Our Rebbe saw the Meraglim in a very lofty and sublime light. Huh? Thank you very much. Yeah, yeah. Even though they made a a colossal failure but it was a failure that came from a

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