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Yom Kippur, Happy Style: Likutei Moharan I:179

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Rabbi Lazer Brody

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[music] with Hashem's loving grace. This is Laser Brody from the south of Israel with our lesson on Rabbi Nakman's wisdom. This tonight we're learning liquor This is our 139th lesson in Rabbi Nakman's teachings and it's called Yom Kipper happy style and we're going to learn tonight Rabbi Nakman's Torah 179 the first part of moran called discourse 179 and just as a little preface most people dread yum kipper they hear yum kipper and they right away shudder on they think the 24-hour fast but as we learned last night we're going to continue on moon hour just a fast is tremendously beneficial ial to the soul and it's a cleansing to the soul. Not only that, it uplifts the soul to a state of sublime joy. If you give the soul any temporary satisfaction, yeah, your favorite food or your favorite performer, dance, something, it's still down in this world. It's phys. But since something is spiritual like the bentos and right away uplifts this, there's nothing there's nothing physical about a fast. It's all spiritual. It's all for the soul. It's a day of sublime joy for the soul. So we open up to Torah 179 the first part as my custom first say it in Hebrew and then translate it with my own translate I'm responsible to my own translation and this is the way I understand Rabi and weapan's comment commentary he makes commentary was the classic volume this is six volumes that Rabbi Natan wrote on a commentary code of Jewish law based on. Okay. So we most of our commentary and understanding comes from Rabbi Natan and the later the sages the theim within breastliff. So Rabbi Nakman starts the

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  1. 0:09[music] with Hashem's loving grace. This is Laser Brody from the south of Israel with our…
  2. 4:58with all our might. When a person tries to nullify our intention, where is our intention?…
  3. 10:14what the Torah says about Yum Kipper on this very day talking about Yum Kipper you…
  4. 15:59back down to that continue on with Torah 179. So through fasting the heart is subdued…
  5. 20:37and a big mess all around. and they pull their hand out of the water and…
  6. 25:45conducive to peace. So where there's a fast rabbi there is celebration and joy because by…
  7. 30:57It's even worse than that. Next paragraph, it says when he takes that day, all right,…
  8. 35:35every day has its own essence. We can't blow it, can't miss it. It says that…
  9. 40:47right. So yesterday, oh he prepared for the fast. He ate 2400 calories. Okay, that extra…
  10. 46:00and this we say in Psalm 139 that your eyes saw shape form that every rabbi…

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