Living with Light: Kedushah

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

Hey, living with light and today's topic is going to be kadusha. Kadusha which is from the root word kadosh holy is what we recite as part of the kazim's repetition of the estray. Um so in the third blessing of which is describes God's holiness um you are holy your name is holy you are holy your name is holy etc. So in the khazan's repetition we have something called kadusha where we responsively answer to the kazin um and the really the the the main part of kadusha are two lines one is kadosh kadosh kadosh um and one is hashem blessed is hashem from his place and we'll talk a little bit more about those two lines but just as a matter of introduction but just as a matter of introduction We should know going in that the topic of what I would call they are things that stand in the highest places in the heavens quite literally as we'll see the words are borrowed from the angels from prophecies that uh Yesha Isaiah and Yeesco had and uh so therefore are in many ways beyond our comprehension. Um to quote RF Schwab our comprehension. Um to quote RF Schwab in his chapter about this in his uh Rwab on prayer he says I've explained many times that when we discuss subjects such as these details of the malim the angels and the messa the revelations that the prophets had of God's chariot God's throne we can have no real conception of the true meaning of the subject matter such a discussion is analogous to people who were born sightless discussing traffic They may say that red means stop and

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1. 0:04Hey, living with light and today's topic is going to be kadusha. Kadusha which is from…
2. 4:42until right now. And now we [clears throat] could just know as an aside why just…
3. 9:54we want, we can sing Shira, sing song before God. But the angels are limited to…
4. 15:08than that of the angels even. Um, as as the Brycea pointing out, we can sing…
5. 19:52and of of angels and souls. And then there's this earth um sorry no there's the…
6. 25:10>> Okay. Um Okay. So, so that's the words kadosh. Kadosh Kados an expression of how…
7. 30:30opposite it. So what's opposite what here? [clears throat] And he says, oh, so he says…
8. 35:12So and that's why there's such an uproar because it's the opposite. So while is so…
9. 40:22that God um Hashem says there's no time like that that like when they're saying kaduca…
10. 45:33therefore he says a person on their own shouldn't say kadusha he needs the he needs…

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