28 Sivan and LIFTING the world from the BOTTOM UP

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Those of you who watch this channel often may have noticed that when I'm recording here in my studio that I have a lot of different stuff on my desk and one of the things is this globe. And you might have wondered like why does he have a globe? Or maybe you didn't wonder cuz you think that's just like a normal desk thing to have is to have a globe. But there's a very deep reason why I have the globe and it's a specific type of a globe where you can spin it both directions. Usually a globe you can only spin it one direction. This globe can spin it both directions. And and the reason has to do directions. And and the reason has to do with Chof Chesvan, with the 20th day of the third month of the Hebrew year which is called Sivan. Okay, so I'm going to explain this very briefly. Chof Chesvan, the 20th day of the month of Sivan is the day when the Rebbe, the Lubavitcher Rebbe and his wife the Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka arrived in America in 1941. Um obviously that's a significant day because if you know anything about their story they were escaping the Holocaust. They left from uh basically the last civilian boat that made it across the

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1. 0:00Those of you who watch this channel often may have noticed that when I'm recording here…
2. 1:01civilian boat that made it across the Atlantic um before the waterways were closed. So it's…
3. 2:34called ascent. Because anywhere you're leaving from, anywhere in the whole world, if you're going to…
4. 3:35great-grandparents lived in Yemen or Morocco or Lithuania or in Poland or in Germany or in…
5. 5:07actually able to elevate heaven and and even the highest heavens by going down into embodiment…
6. 6:09leverage bottom up, okay? So what does this mean in psychological terms, in emotional terms, in…
7. 7:41and many of his many of his his books were adapted into films um is that…
8. 8:41know what's possible with them. And Herman Wouk is speaking as an Orthodox Jew, as a…
9. 10:13this is good for them. Show them you're not trying to fit them in a box…
10. 11:13compliance, but you're not going to win hearts and minds. But if you go from bottom…

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