The Mystical Letter Bet - Part 3: Free Will Affecting the World - Rabbi Yaakov Marcus

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

[Music] we're at Nevada shoreline we're doing the mystical Hebrew alphabet series we're going through letters of the Hebrew alphabet shapes and meanings for now letter Beit and where we left off was that if bait is the letter of connection and relationship positive or negative it should be facing the goal how if represents cause one this why didn't the almighty graphically design the bait opener facing what you're here to connect to good is that which connects me to God evils that which distances me instead a God graphically designed the bait with its back to the goal ignoring the Aleph and facing the wrong way so the answer to that is found in a dream given to Jacob Yakko when he stole the blessings from his twin brother ASA Agra ha had a son named gets awkward Isaac will call me it's hawk yes Hawk had a son named Yaakov and Yaakov was a twin but he was the younger of the two his brother Esau were gonna call a sub in Hebrew and therefore Yaakov steals the blessings from his twin brother a sub a sub says I'm gonna kill him Yakko flees out of Land of Israel lays down to sleep on a hill which is a hill where decades earlier his grandfather tried to sacrifice his father and a thousands of years in the future it'll be where the temples built and downtown Jerusalem so in when he lays down to sleep there God gives him a prophetic dream and every level of the dream is introduced by the word he nay he nay is a code word in the Torah it's usually translated as a behold he names behold but really means look deeper and

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1. 0:03[Music] we're at Nevada shoreline we're doing the mystical Hebrew alphabet series we're going through letters…
2. 3:13collections orbiting and/or a nucleus or whatever all these systems are supposed to be coming down…
3. 7:04to Judaism is a constant according to science it was a a single event whatever it…
4. 10:49allows human beings to imitate that which means human beings have a god-like free will that…
5. 14:00I made you similar to me you weren't making good use of your freewill decisions so…
6. 17:42runs and there's going to be less drought in Africa there's going to be less disease…
7. 21:29we're in so so in order for you not to get confused because our brains don't…
8. 24:41wired into the spiritual mechanism meaning everybody's wired into the machine okay is that clear that's…
9. 28:30choose were working out with our weights better if we were learning more tariffs we were…
10. 32:26planet can handle it can handle the population without hurricanes and tsunamis and earthquakes and droughts…

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