The Menorah In Your Head

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The opening of this shiur, in BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] welcome back to Bristol campus we'll be going into a little about idea of the seven candles connected to the brain to explain rebbe nachman in less than twenty one of the kutiman he explains that a person has what's called seven candles you have a menorah these seven candles are the seven apertures of the head the two years the two eyes the two nostrils and the mouth adding up to seven and they make a type of a shape of like branches connecting to make a type of menorah the remaining one explains that the control of these seven candles which means controlling your eyes which means filtering what not to see and what yes allowing yeste see filtering the ears to block your ears from hearing slander idle idle talk by gossip and yes listening to the words of the ha ha Meem of the tsadikim of the sages the nostrils by taking a deep breath and not getting angry at the person you're about to get angry too exercising humility and restraint which is the main reflection of what's called here have been like the verse says a cave a Nava Urata Shem the heel of fear in heaven is humility that means the bottom the beginning point we begin humility it is fear of an event and fear of heaven is associated with the nose also and mouth is obviously not speaking idol worship not swearing not speaking bad and and very dirty and derogatory language and yes speaking words of Torah and mitzvot in pray or etc right so these are the seven candles and we do not want to explain something amazing he said these seven candles are dependent on the mind these seven they are the the seat of the four senses right as a hearing seeing scent and

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1. 0:00[Music] welcome back to Bristol campus we'll be going into a little about idea of the…
2. 0:31nostrils and the mouth adding up to seven and they make a type of a shape…
3. 1:02listening to the words of the ha ha Meem of the tsadikim of the sages the…
4. 1:32the nose also and mouth is obviously not speaking idol worship not swearing not speaking bad…
5. 2:05taste and they're connected to the brain so he says that they are dependent on the…
6. 3:08connect the candles are joined through the branches of the candelabra to being one and this…
7. 3:41apertures the seven candles the mind is trying to tell the senses control yourself control the…
8. 4:13of food or doesn't eat for the right intentions the grogginess developed by the improper eating…
9. 4:45the mind is groggy you can't be expected to do any even spiritual devotion if you're…
10. 5:16believe it or not drinking water is something so pure because my name is kept related…

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