Rabbi YY Jacobson explores the emotional dynamics of the human brain and the nature of the evil inclination.
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on behalf of uh everybody who's on for this class or any other class thank you okay so the main the main point that we learned yesterday yesterday's class Monday morning after explaining what's the significance toward the symbol one of the symbolisms behind the burning of the red cow the red hat for the paraduma reducing it to ashes and then that ashes was mixed with water and that became an agent of cleansing and not just cleansing but cleansing from the most severe and difficult impurity known as the mechatos the war the mixture of the water with the ashes of the paraduma so the balatanya that explained a whole idea the main submission of it was that everything in the world has Heimer and Surah right the Heimer is the raw form of the raw reality of it the raw material of it and the Surah is the form that we sculpture and in our world we don't have something that has concept you can distinguish between the two but the concept is that everything in our world is a combination it's a synthesis of Heimer and Surah is the raw reality that Surah is the war reality gets formed into a fraticulitsura and that becomes now the reality of it but essentially one has to understand that that Surah is imposed it may be additional to the Heimer the original Heimer comes with a different Surah or on a more abstract level may not have a physical every question is whatso the stable even when it was part of the tree it still had a Surah just had the tour of a tree didn't have the tour of a table same is true with the chair or the
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