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Basi Legani 5725 #7: Tzimtzum — The Ultimate Equation to Heal the World

1.7K views · Feb 7, 2025

Rabbi YY Jacobson

An exploration of the concept of Tzimtzum and its role in healing the world.

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[Music] good morning good morning everybody you could check if we're good okay so we are holding up to class good okay so we are holding up to class number seven in the 5725 or 1965 ofat the the of his father-in-law the tomorrow we will also have a she as I mentioned it's Friday morning tat cont it's page right the series is dedicated graciously in loving memory and in tribute leas both great Rabin leaders and sages also dedicated byra Philip in honor of the and his for creating a honor of the and his for creating a revolution in the world to bring Mia now amen thank you very much for both dedications and for your extraordinary partnership in the past in the present and in the future so the theme of yesterday's year which I'm not going to repeat of course not I'm G to make a tsim Tsum we're going to do a tsim Tsum we're going to do a tsim Tsum usually I try to do a Tsum and it ends up being longer than the original huh only you only come for the review for the next day yeah so it's funny you know I tried to do a summation like I think in a sentence will compress what was said in two hours will compress in a sentence it turns out that the sentence becomes longer than the two hours maybe that's how the Tsum actually works we'll soon see that it's actually see that it's actually uh it becomes something much deeper okay that was an interesting slip but the the the the the the simum version of it was to compress it in one sentence that of course in in in in Infinity there's also the capacity for being limited for being finite ases puts it if you only Define it as B and not as

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  1. 0:13[Music] good morning good morning everybody you could check if we're good okay so we are
  2. 6:25Haman he was a translator he so it doesn't just mean translating one language to another
  3. 12:43world these are the words that capture the truth of that when you're speaking from hashem's
  4. 19:06said who means it's the same who you are the who you are he who was
  5. 25:22words the way it's yours the way it's PR this is the Mal of all the
  6. 31:35story huh sometimes more powerful than a non-fictional story what do they right remember I so
  7. 37:49Infinity so you say what I'm Infinity yeah the moment I say I am Infinity I
  8. 44:07have and other great Jewish philosophers and in their works of philosophy this is a huge
  9. 50:25one with you that's the Sy or to put it differently the whole simum is to
  10. 56:37were there was Souls that they didn't experience meaning the state of consciousness of preb existed

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