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It's All in Your Mind! (Kesser Shem Tov 11)

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Rabbi Yaakov Klein

Rabbi Yaakov Klein explores teachings of the Baal Shem Tov on positive thought and teshuvah.

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we jump in at the 31st teaching in theer and he writes like this he quotes from The Holy an explanation on the stay away from wrath from Evil and try our best to do to do good he says the M tells us thatav was was punished all different things happened to him he was cast down and and and and attacked that in a certain way there was a there was a deficiency on the part of that after hearing the terrible Prophecies of what would happen there was a a deficiency in in his level of prayer um to to to avert the disaster he was the prophet of Doom and Gloom you know he he he really believed what would happen and and ended up happening but apparently there could have been some level of aversion which a bit difficult to understand because the if you look in sa at one point thees told him to stop daving you know on behalf of the people you know so so there's it's unclear exactly we have to see the med inside but to to some degree or another there seemed to be a deficiency especially when compared to yes the is filled with you know so many of the of the that we read that are full of consolation come from M was he was a he was a prophet that saw the Visions at the end of days you know he he he he saw the way that everything would be fixed in the end so he so so he says that each and every one of us is like a little bit because it depends on how we want to see it spoke about this a little bit yesterday is that reality really is is subjective it's really dependent on our perception and the is explaining this you know he's explaining this in the

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  1. 0:00we jump in at the 31st teaching in theer and he writes like this he quotes
  2. 3:09judgments which is something else that we learned about in previous year in the series to
  3. 6:56ark Hashem is telling each and every Jew enter in to the words of Tor and
  4. 10:10is the Reb has a whole metaphor over there of a person daving who doesn't want
  5. 14:04when you understand that the letters are not just letters they're numbers so it turns out
  6. 17:44going all the way back to number one like we pointed out K Ice T who
  7. 20:56because all of life is a dream not just dreams that are person has they have
  8. 24:44we read about things a real cleansing a real deep stain and the gamar Apparently is
  9. 27:59way that a person could do a if they really lived with with that total realization
  10. 31:36running their lives that's what mean a person who who doesn't only not believe in God

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