The Symbiosis of Body & Soul, Jew & Gentile - Part 4

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The opening of this shiur, in The Parsha In My Life - Rabbi Reuven Wolf’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

That's cool. That one back there is good. Or this one. Whichever one. That one back there or this one? Yeah, you're better off. That one is easier. Okay, everyone. Welcome, welcome. We're going to be learning now. Um, this is going to be class number four in the symbiosis of body and soul. which we began a discourse for yonasan a couple of weeks ago. We are holding over here chapter nine. Um so to um to connect where we were holding so that we'll flow further just a brief review. We were learning about the idea of the gain that happens when the bo the soul descends into the body to rectify the body to live life in the physical world which means soul in body and how that great gain that the soul gets from being in the body it elevates the soul to much higher plays and there's two two explanations. Wait one minute. I have to I know what that is. One second. There's two explanations in the body in the in the um in the gain of the soul. through living life in a in an earthly body. Um, and the soul gains an elevation, a tremendous elevation. From the deeper perspective, we understand that a soul that is so holy and so godly and so it's an it's an entity. It's an entity of light, for it to come down and into a body is extremely painful. the soul comes down in the body. So we learned that there's two general explanations. One is that the soul is elevated because the fact that the body cannot persuade the soul and take the soul away from its attachment to God to seduce the soul away from Hashem from God. the fact that the soul is not able to um that the body is not able to you know

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1. 0:00That's cool. That one back there is good. Or this one. Whichever one. That one back…
2. 6:46child. So the souls as they are etched in God himself since to God. So how…
3. 13:13goes on to live forever and ever and ever. way beyond what it enjoyed in it.…
4. 19:39of the body and the loneliness of the body. the soul is able to demonstrate who…
5. 26:11Moshe it says the angel came and made him take the the coal. He wanted to…
6. 32:41bodies the Jewish body is very the forget about let's say let's think of just bodies…
7. 38:57like we say you use the body and now the soul. No this is really the…
8. 45:26children. But this deeper bonds but but the other children the reasons to love them cover…
9. 51:49the of the connection is not obscured by externalities. A child with qualities the external relationship…
10. 58:32body? But it doesn't mean oh he's crazy about our body. Do with your body whatever…

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