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The 4 Hurdles: The 3rd Principle of Emuna - Incorporeality

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Rabbi Lazer Brody

A discussion on the concept of Hashem's incorporeality and Ein Sof.

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Amuna my Lord. Amuna, it's from you my Lord. [Music] It's all good, my Lord. [Music] Oh Lord, Bo Hashem. Shalom. Hello to my favorite people on earth. And maybe that's a bit of an understatement. And it is so good to see you. So good to be back. And tonight we're with smiles on our face. We're going to learn the third of the 13 principles of Amuna, which many people consider the most difficult principle of amuna and certainly the most difficult principle of to grasp because it talks about the incorpor of Hashem that Hashem has no connection to any physicality to no body. It's all pure spirituality and it defies human concept. It defies human knowledge because Hashem is divine wisdom and we have flesh and blood wisdom that's trapped up here in a in a skull of flesh and blood bloodsh jail and can't understand fully understand uh the shem. Not even partially understand the shem as long as we're in a body. Once the soul is released from the body, the soul has complete understanding. And that's what uh we learn in the zor that when the soul leaves the body, the gmorrah says the same thing. It's not just the esoteric Torah, but that the Gomorrah tells us that that when the soul leaves the body, it lets out a scream from one end of the earth to the other end of the

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  1. 0:00Amuna my Lord. Amuna, it's from you my Lord. [Music] It's all good, my Lord. [Music]
  2. 5:48Nobody has the right to intervene that. And this is even more intimate than a person's
  3. 11:35the people have all types of all types of uh tests like this. There are some
  4. 17:39uh Abraham. He taught a muna to the whole world. It just Abraham didn't say I'm
  5. 23:29even though these animals, they could be trained, but they're still limited. They're still limited. There's
  6. 29:15start. Okay? Because the animal is the animal soul as we learned in our introductory lesson,
  7. 34:57big I don't know. Say I did hurdle number one said body. Hurdle number two is
  8. 40:56set off this big bang that created the universe. He's got no expression for that. He's
  9. 46:52If a person is a clown, Hashem will clown around with him. Sure, that's it. Okay.
  10. 52:45use of tangible imagery. Once again, hurdle number one is bodily lust. Hurdle number two is

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