The Baal Shem Tov on Elul & Slichot

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The opening of this shiur, in The Parsha In My Life - Rabbi Reuven Wolf’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

All right everyone, good evening. Thank you for joining the Monday class. Today is going to be actually a very short but to the point to learn a little thought. A little thought. Um this week as we know on Thursday is the great holiday of the 18th day of the month of El in which the holy soul of the Balshmtove emerged into the world. The holy Balshmtov who brings us the ultimate hidden light the light of Messiah and touches our soul in the deepest way. founder ofism and then a few years later his uh his uh successor the great Alman of Liyadi the great founder of Kabadidism um is it wasn't the direct successor but it was the third successor of kididic teaching and thought and invigoration and life infusion were both born on the same Okay. So, every year there's an incredible infusion of vitality, life and love to the world. That's why they came into the month of El because the month of Elo is the month of love. Anili I am to my beloved and my beloved is to me until the BMT came. All was a very very intimidating month, a very very harsh month. And the Balchtov came and turned that around and added the love to the month of El or rather didn't add it, but he uncovered the love in El. He brought it forth and helped us focus on on our relationship with Hashem from a far kinder, more compassionate and uh loving place. So today I saw a teaching from the BMT to that I learned

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1. 0:06All right everyone, good evening. Thank you for joining the Monday class. Today is going to…
2. 2:11in a discourse in a mimer. I learned it in a discourse from the Reb um…
3. 4:19God. Where are we holding? It's a lot of times called the the month of of…
4. 6:20you benefited, enjoyed and lived with that gave you comfort. Whether it was a good friend,…
5. 8:25that's when God is is is literally dropping those that credit God is giving credit means…
6. 10:29we have to start thinking about how to like re and giving back a return for…
7. 12:31God to forgive us and we ask him that uh that we're going to make a…
8. 14:35sincere effort to pay the pay up, even if we're only holding at 3% of payment…
9. 16:37can pay back God for the very life that he's giving me that moment. How can…
10. 18:43we can all work with. Now it's workable. And you know what? Now there's life to…

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