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Jewish Spiritual Dimensions in the Messianic Era - Part 8

3.6K views · Oct 30, 2025

Rabbi Mendel Kessin

A hashkafa shiur by Rabbi Mendel Kessin on prophecy and spiritual states in the Messianic era.

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Before I begin this year, uh I wanted to inform the ilum the public the audience uh that uh a certain milestone has been achieved. The destruction of the basis happened because of a single sin that transpired. I'm not going to go into the elaboration of this, but we know the sin is the concept of or the sin of Russian horror. concept of or the sin of Russian horror. harmful speech. Now many years ago uh actually in 1988 a long time ago I gave a share describing the pinemus which means the internal idea or principle of why lushian horror speaking harmful uh speech is so devastating. how it destroyed the bas mikdash why it it destroyed the bas mikdash why it doesn't bring the msiah and I explained that and this of course is all based on what the says uh in any case uh I have tried many times to transcribe the shir and actually print it because there are people that would like to see it in print and read it well it's finally been accomplished um Felheim has graciously accepted accepted the uh opportunity accepted the uh opportunity to work on the Shia and to print a transcript of the shear itself and they've done really a beautiful job, excellent job. And what I've tried to do also is procure a lot of actually what I what you will consider gel many people who signed on as endorsements for this shar you know they read the transcript

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  2. 6:11and your community and of course the entire Jewish people. So therefore I call it the…
  3. 12:21itself but it actually determined the the degree and quality of the divine revelation which was…
  4. 18:34great men of Israel if this is if this decree was revocable or not. Hadrien the…
  5. 24:48achieve was primarily through sound to meditate on a sound. That was basically their way and…
  6. 31:00prophecy which was given to him by theam. These are the five aspects of the spiritual…
  7. 37:10He saw the contents or what actually lay in Matsilus and what lay in Matsilus the…
  8. 43:26image. It was also obscured as it passed through the intermediaries that convey it. In other…
  9. 49:39two, the type of intermediary or lens which was employed to convey the divine image. These…
  10. 55:54part of the prophecy. [clears throat] Now as a result of the phenomena of intermediaries and…

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