The Mystical Letter Aleph - Part 1 - Rabbi Yaakov Marcus

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[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] My name is Rabbi Yakov Marcus. I teach My name is Rabbi Yakov Marcus. I teach here at NV. Um, I do tour college campuses, uh, speaking to students your age. I try to do my mystical Hebrew alphabet series on campus, uh, the shapes and meanings, the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. We're going to do a two-part series today on the letter olive, part one. I think I'm teaching you again one more time. And uh we're going to look for the shape and meaning of the Hebrew letter, the first Hebrew letter of the alphabet, the letter olive. The reason we're going to do this is because uh most Jews nowadays believe is because uh most Jews nowadays believe that the Torah is man-made mythology. Different people wrote at different points in history. Somebody edited it together. And that's what we call the five books of Moses. Orthodox Jews believe that it is not man-made. That is God-given Mount Si 3,300 years ago. and therefore it is a divinely given uh document. Uh once it's divinely given, everything changes. If it's made from human authorship, fine. So it's cute, it's nice, it's got cute stories, maybe ethical messages or whatever, but it's not going to be that deep. Once

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1. 0:01[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] My name is Rabbi Yakov Marcus. I teach…
2. 5:11a silent letter. Now, if I were hired as God's graphic artist and he asked me…
3. 10:18we call a soul body combination. You're put in this world. Uh this world represents a…
4. 15:27what God wants. But we're not God. Obviously, even on a good day, we're not God,…
5. 20:37it harder and harder to figure out he's there. And uh the answer to that question…
6. 25:43societal norms, those aren't adding on to the layers kind of separating our view, right? I…
7. 30:46grammar, when a v, which is a v sound in English, is used as a prefix…
8. 35:55pretty practical to me. They don't sound very spiritual. So why is the letter of spirituality…
9. 41:01create a space. Okay? Now, that space is a space where God's out of the way…
10. 46:08uh who deals in explaining areas of Jewish mysticism like this and he tries to explain…

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