Rescuing the Princess： Likutei Moharan, Torah 24, Part 2

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

[Music] so with hashem's loving grace tonight's lesson is rescuing the princess and we see that advents in Israel today are really the continuation of our Perpetual war that be began 22 centuries ago what took place centu 2 centuries ago but even began before that the war between lightness and dark and between this world the next World and between human intellect and divine intellect this actually started with Jacob and Esau but it continues on much much stronger uh 2200 years ago with the mbim against the Greeks mbim were very small minority and they not only battled the Greeks the Greeks didn't want to kill them the Greeks wanted to kill Torah they kill Judaism if they're fine they said that the Jews they would they weren't anti-semitic per se that the Jews could work out in their gymnasiums and come to their universities and even marry their daughters just so long as they set aside Torah heaven forbid set aside the mitzvot okay so this was intrinsically a war between human intellect and divine intellect now give a little introduction this will catch us up on last week as well and we'll understand where we're going we'll understand what the particular importance of learning this Torah uh during Hanukah in the academic world ancient Greek philosophy that's society's archetype of intellectual prowers you know when you're University you learn uh Socrates Plato and Aristotle these were the great thinkers that will soon see what where their place was compared to our wise men that the the the Tano the sages of the of the mission because spiritually what happens with Greek philosophy it's darkness and it's confusion because it it brings Darkness to the soul and it's dark

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