Rabbi YY Jacobson discusses the deeper spiritual meaning behind pain and suffering.
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your soul is so pure it said I'm gonna go into this place and in order to go into this place I can't remain in heaven and say hey Sparks come out I have to go down but it's not only I have to go down I have to become entangled I have to become enmeshed I have to allow myself to become so to speak a victim in order to be able to be inside that space and at that moment you have to know that the soul itself was never contaminated never it can't be okay today's class is dedicated by our very own shully and fagi guns with great appreciation for all of the life-changing cities that we learn thank you thank you I got a text that this is the announcement today so thank you so much bro that's locker and everything I'd believe die is what was the main point Mama to summarize the main point of the last class was that in the in the attempt of what we call malchus which is the divine energy that goes in and gives life to all over the worlds that's the energy that really needs to go sometimes into very difficult and challenging places to extract all the challenging places to extract all the goodness that is entangled and enmeshed and tethered with so much more in the process of which he spoke about the first billiard there's the second period of the destruction the first period of malchus and you cannot Elevate something in a genuine way if you're not ready to go into it to to get down because as he puts it to Nevada it needs to be mislavish in the mizbara the one
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