The Tension between Selfhood and Selflessness - Parsha Vayikra - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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[Music] I think and welcome to all one of the most adventurous and fascinating elements in the study of Torah is the fact that every verse episode story law and idea and Torah contains countless layers of interpretation and perspective it's known for example that every single verse and concept in the Torah can be understood from at least four understood from at least four perspectives known as paradise which is an acronym for four words shot remiz douche and sight shot is the literal concrete interpretation Ramez is the symbolic or homolytically level of interpretation douche is the interconnected level of interpretation in which you see the entire body of turin judaism as a single organism and many ideas are deeply interconnected and many ideas are deeply interconnected and integrated and then there is soit the mystical the esoteric dimension of every aspect of Torah there's also a fifth level which we'll get to later in the class and this evening I want to take one verse from the portion of iiquor what seems like a simple commandment a simple law and explore it from these four diverse vantage points and then a fifth level and then see how they can fifth level and then see how they can all be integrated and understood with a new depth based on the fifth level let's not jump ahead of ourselves open up source number one please in your curriculum below the PDF let me just give a very brief introduction so you can understand the context via Kiera is the portion that deals with sacrifices now there were different types of sacrifices brought to the sanctuary or later to the Temple in Jerusalem one was

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1. 6:34sweetness that comes from any fruit so it would include of course date honey and it…
2. 12:48become our King and the thorny bush who lacks fragrance and lacks our oh man lacks…
3. 19:00do not use yeast use bread flour water oil that's unleavened what's interesting is that ROM…
4. 25:11don't offer honey it's trying to inspire a certain perspective it's trying to create a certain…
5. 31:29Sidra Mishnah and his father told him that day he said cold saw a river called…
6. 37:40that the time will be delayed what about the next layer ms symbolic level of interpretation…
7. 43:52presents his interpretation to this verse to this mitzvah one of his great students Rabbi Yaakov…
8. 50:04means that in the beginning of the process of one's spiritual mental and emotional growth he…
9. 56:19how great she or he is how rich a life they can read we live and…

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