Pain Is an Invitation to Shed My Superficiality

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

welcome everybody thank you so much for joining us this monday morning january 24th 2022. parshas 82 today's class is dedicated by the berkowitz family nishmas mendel ben murder whose yard site was ud and to remain an eternal source of light and blessing and inspiration to the entire family to all of us and to all of the jewish people thank you so much for your dedication and your generosity and your friendship and your love in general i also want to mention today is the art site of the rabbitson of the lubavitcher harabana eight so we started last week the mimer of the balatani of the altar in terror her parishes yesterday and let's remember that the story of mata entire the story of the giving of the terror spans over two portions the beginning of it is in israel and then it continues at the end of parshas mushpaten where the narrative of sinai continues so this mimer began on the verse on the positive message the entire nation observed the sounds the thunder the lightning the fires and the sound of the chauffeur and the mimer developed the question why was the sheifer necessary at matantayana he went into the whole story about the avoid of the work of avramovino how avaids hashem serving hashem consists of the rhythm of life the rhythm of life is comprised of two antithetical motions and experiences one is called ratsay which is longing running yearning aspiring and then there's shove which is returning there's tension and resolution every every powerful melody has that combination of tension and resolution trying to escape transcend going above myself yearning for something deeper and then embracing what is ratsa and

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1. 0:04welcome everybody thank you so much for joining us this monday morning january 24th 2022. parshas…
2. 7:03lifeless it seems lifeless it's not really lifeless but diamond would be anything like water earth…
3. 13:16it's a descent from a higher space to a lower place it's a manifestation of infinity…
4. 19:23so everything has a divine purpose everything you look at the world you have to be…
5. 25:31billion neurons working together in my brain firing each other up in order to be able…
6. 31:50was very very deep and lofty and sublime but it's still not like not eating because…
7. 37:31sometimes i have a food addiction now i completely lose my humanity i don't even know…
8. 43:38mitzvah or the filling is called the mitzvah or the myrtle branch is called the mitzvah…
9. 49:46you know sometimes you go to these events and conferences and everybody talks and talks and…
10. 56:09manipulating you okay it looks like you're alive you're not alive when you're alive you don't…

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