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Understand how your animal soul (Nefesh Behemit) works in order to fight it and WIN

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Rabbi Alon Anava

Understand how your animal soul (Nefesh Behemit) works in order to fight it and WIN

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on Shabbat technically what happens on Shabbat all the worlds get elevated to their source so that's why we're we're commanded we can't have any connection to the physicality because all the worlds get get elevated so that's one of the reasons why we're commanded not to work because it's kind of like the elevator is going up now to the to the penthouse you grab the elevator you go up with it you don't grab then you stay grab then you stay below you know when I became religious and they used to tell me when you don't keep Shabbat then it's called Shabbat now in Hebrew is when you take a flute and you you know so I was like I don't understand what do you mean shabat doesn't make sense the word even doesn't make sense now then how I figured how I understood it on Shabbat all the worlds get elevated everything gets elevated get elevated everything gets elevated now if you keep Shabbat and you grab the Shabbat then you get elevated with the Shabbat if Shalom you don't then everything goes up and becomes AAL a space between all the worlds and down here so if you don't keep the shabbat shalom you stuck in this kalal in this space which means everything that you do is Shabbat so that made more sense to me and the thing is this is unfortunate why shabbat doesn't keep doesn't feel stuck

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  1. 0:00on Shabbat technically what happens on Shabbat all the worlds get elevated to their source so
  2. 3:04half everyone you know if you never if you were born not religious you know about
  3. 6:12away the will shut the the light down no don't get excited shut up now when
  4. 9:16now the thing is that talking how we we started talking before about the r when
  5. 12:24wants to do only wants to be connected to hem he doesn't want to do anything
  6. 16:02liked him so there was one argument and the ram said no whatever tea whatever instinct
  7. 19:09for sure not to do sins and enjoy this world but let's say a person already
  8. 22:17trained cuses andu and how many times you see a lion that is trained that that
  9. 25:21you away from and you constantly have a battle now if a person lives a certain
  10. 28:26pumping in pumping out yeah exactly like a muscle if you now go to to a

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