A shiur exploring Rebbe Nachman's teaching on self-belief, with insights from Rav Tzadok HaKohen and the Kedushas Levi.
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Okay, awesome. So, Ezra Hashem, we're going to jump into our learning as we continue our journey through today with uh the 140th teaching. We're going to try to focus and center ourselves just on this teaching today. And I will share my screen so we can all see the amazing sources. I'm really excited about this one. Okay, here we go. So let's jump in at the beginning. So let's jump in at the beginning. Remember we're in a part of where Rnasan is providing some of the context and background and some deeper meanings um within Rabbi Nakman's presentation of teachings in Lutaran. So it's a little bit more in-depth. that's a little bit more detailed and we've been looking at a number of teachings and we have a few more of these sikhas until we move sort of back into the more biographical anecdotal um aspects of sikasan but over here we focus on a teaching from the second volume of teaching from the second volume of lutaran this is in lut maharan tinñana and it's sim pav the 86th teaching so even before we take a look actually at let's just I I brought the actual teaching or at least the relevant parts of it. And so let's look at that first and then we'll go into so the saddic says like this a person should know because generally people are of know because generally people are of weaker faith that's why it's required and necessary for them to fast which over here is seen as just a general broad umbrella term for all avodos kash All difficult modes of serving. Fasting of course is chief among them and many other hard difficult avodas that a person has to do is because they're trying to access a certain place or a
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- 0:02Okay, awesome. So, Ezra Hashem, we're going to jump into our learning as we continue our…
- 5:17generally completely cut off from spiritual connection. No, they're somewhere in between. They have spirituality, but…
- 10:52thought process that in order to get really close to Hashem, there had to be heroic…
- 16:39nation and then made reference immediately to teaching me buanos interpret. Why is it that the…
- 22:10you gave me another day you gave me another another morning on this earth which is…
- 27:53are totally complete. Irrespective of how incomplete and inadequate they may feel, irrespective of how much…
- 33:33inem they believed in God which means in themselves they had belief in Hashem and therefore…
- 38:45that a human being etched out of physicality and physical corporeal matter should be able to…
- 44:22father. And that is talking about me and that is talking about you because we are…
- 50:15A Jew goes from joy to joy, right? This that we're bringing joy to Hashem, brings…
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