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Lehavin Inyan Ha'Brachos #1: Why Idolatry Was So Tempting

2.4K views · Nov 26, 2024

Rabbi YY Jacobson

A class on the topic of blessings and the historical context of idolatry in Jewish history.

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  1. 0:00Okay, welcome everybody. Good morning. Baruch haba'im. We'll have this class today to start a new…
  2. 6:20So that's 890 years. Then you have Babylon another 70 years so it's 960 years and…
  3. 12:43have sugar. A moon is even deeper than the than the comprehension capacity of the divine…
  4. 18:57lofty, sublime, high state into a much lower space. You can get onto the camel. The…
  5. 25:16Rambam says the whole Torah's purpose is to Yeah. And that's why the Rambam says in…
  6. 31:28it exists, it's like an emotional detachment. So, I desire in by your station was a…
  7. 37:44called doesn't occupy space. SO THE WHOLE IDEA OF IT'S a compliment for the angels THAT…
  8. 44:00zarah anymore." So you got rid of God, too. You got rid of the gods, and…
  9. 50:16Always rebelling, always defying. The prophets had the hardest time in by his tradition. Somebody once…
  10. 56:33your spouse it. Okay, call you whatever you want, but not it. There's a book, I…

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