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The Highest Form of Self-Love Is Showing Up When You Least Want to | Maamar Beshah She'hikdemu #5

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

Rabbi YY Jacobson concludes a series on self-love and surrender.

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in the mimer [snorts] which is the second to the last chapter in the copies it's page 190 the second paragraph. [snorts] So after a long conversation which started off about the two crowns that the Jewish people received when they said NASA before Nishma and an explanation of what Kesser is and the truth and the depth and the power of silence that's beyond words. The eagle hag deeper than the cal. And from there the three stages of mitz and then escafia is and then a long discussion about davening the stages of dvening the then all the way to where you say you open my lips and I will just channel your words. and how the first level is rooted in the third level and a long discussion on the steps versus the ramp on the misbayak [snorts] where there's two ways of climbing the ladder of life. One is through steps and one is through the ramp the uniqueness and advantage in each one. And yet when you start a misbehaves and finally a discussion about the muted dove, the muted distant dove that speaks about when he was captured in gas by the pushim and uh Golio's brother was the king Akish and they accused they saw David. He's the kill the kill killer of Golioas and David had to s fe fain insanity in order to save himself from uh from uh pending doom from from a death sentence and that's when David composes a poem

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  1. 0:34in the mimer [snorts] which is the second to the last chapter in the copies it's
  2. 6:24you. I don't only hear the words. Huh? right? It changed his whole life. He heard
  3. 12:52before nishma makes a lot a lot of sense. [laughter] It makes a lot of sense.
  4. 19:34be enthusiastic. But even when you're not in the mood still do escafia. I get that.
  5. 25:54and that's the idea of kesser which is the silence. So there's two ways you could
  6. 32:14you see you're not a balad there's some very very filthy dirty ugly things this happens
  7. 38:32We have a god complex. You know why? Because to surrender to humanity takes tremendous ble.
  8. 45:04actually means I'm saying after somebody the real learning of is you're not saying the you're
  9. 51:31has the which is the silence the so even though it's rooted in and to access
  10. 58:02there's going to come a time in history and a time in people's life where you're

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