R' Mendel Kessin - The Method of Limud

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essentially really what you're doing no I think I've said it many times but it's always good as a summary you know essentially somebody engages in this type of thinking with what is he really doing he's reconstructing something which used to be a structure has been fragmented and now he wants to reconstruct it back that's really what it is so fundamentally somebody who learns this way is really a Reconstructionist you're either that or you're a Methodist sounds funny but uh you know metaphor detective it's it's more the what the a metaphor Detective is more politically correct I think uh that's really what the that's really what the whole thing is to somehow sort out the fragments and put it together into cohesive structure where you see all the variables and the relationships and so on okay so last week we started P Chi and we had we we we came into an entire and we had we we we came into an entire area that this mission is really talking about remember that the whole concept of what mental state mind and we discovered that right very important CU this applies to Cola is that all by the way this this applies to colula the whole concept that there how many states of Mind did we say they were remember how many states of Mind are there nobody remembers it's only a week come on guys about everybody yeah okay terms of well you miss and let's say what else and R four mental States or four states of

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1. 0:20essentially really what you're doing no I think I've said it many times but it's always…
2. 6:31of intention is the concept of deliberately why did you do but when I ask you…
3. 12:42okay whereas M refers to right the State of Mind does he or does he not…
4. 18:56Torah is Mark on but there's a second concept that you need to also do besides…
5. 25:06uh you know if you let's say you dig a hole you dig a hole in…
6. 31:16he's not fool himself no he want you know there the delicious ch right it's delicious…
7. 37:30you saying KES you're doing a Mitzvah no no no I think that's what you're doing…
8. 43:41um it's you know it's part possible of the whole experience but I enjoy I mean…
9. 49:53know he's articulating a he's veliz actually he's vocalizing a letter as opposed to reading that's…
10. 56:08stringent which is or which one or which one is much more you know Mesa means…

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