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When Life Throws a Curveball, Surrender Becomes a Lifeline - Likkutei Torah Shlach Vata Yigdal #4

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

When Life Throws a Curveball, Surrender Becomes a Lifeline - Likkutei Torah Shlach Vata Yigdal #4

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The line starts. It's actually the same where we that I announced last time. It's never got to it right. Okay. Today's class is dedicated by our very own Reb Israel Yehuda Hakayan Angel in honor of his birthday this week on the 23rd day of Sivven. He's not here physically, but I hope he's here virtually. Happy birthday. And everything you learn should be internalized inside of you and inside of us and to radiate it to others. Thank you very very much. also dedicated by somebody anonymously in honor of their anniversary maztov with blessings that our children live up to their fullest beautiful potential. Amen. [snorts] And all the blessings. Thank you. So after a long discussion or relatively long discussion that there are two ways in which we can experience or celebrate mitzvah one would seem lower than the other but really on a deeper level it's much higher and when we say much higher means you're actually experiencing the truth of the mitzvah in a much more authentic way. Alterba said one way of looking at the mitzvah is focusing on the particular energy that this mitzvah represents because every mitzvah has layers and layers of significance according to according to according to douch according to and the more sensitive you are the more spiritually attuned you are the more you could see in it he says but that's not really the core of the mitzvah the core of the mitzvah is when a person does it without any reason not because you do it without any reason. So it's like meaningless on the contrary that has the greatest

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