Likutei Sichos Vol 17 Behar- Lag Ba'omer, Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky

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The courtesy of Likutei Sichos, volume 17, the sicha for parshas Behar and Lag Baomer. I would strongly recommend that before we go over the sicha, you do a quick review of the verses that apply to the sicha, and that is in chapter 25, at least the first part of the chapter, uh all the way up to and or especially verse 20, 21, and then later uh in the end of the chapter, verses 47 uh in the end of the chapter, verses 47 and 48. A few quick concepts that will appear in this sicha. First of all, the idea of toraso umnaso, which we once had in a previous sicha, which means literally his Torah is his only engagement, or his Torah is his only profession, so to speak. Meaning, these are these are exclusive level of sages, of scholars, that their entire endeavor was the study of Torah. They did nothing else but study Torah. study Torah. Then also, there's a concept of ratzo versus shuv. Ratzo can be translated a forward thrust, a strong burning desire to come closer to Hashem, whereas shuv, which comes from the word return, means to return, to come to speak, so to speak, to be, you know, um with with a practical application, how to bring it back into practicality, into reality. Okay, so ratzo has this desire to go become super natural, above and

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2. 2:31So this year, says the Rebbe in the sicha, and so too in many years, it…
3. 5:36our parsha, parshas Behar, we we really if we look at it, we observe it, we…
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5. 11:15surpasses everything. How is that How is that possible? How can we say that it goes…
6. 14:22how can we maintain this saying over here of Abba Shaul ben Yoḥai in the 13th…
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10. 26:13shuv come together and thus you have the idea where the action this is what I…

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