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Rav Dessler on the Uniqueness of Mitzrayim and Ongoing Geulah from Mitzrayim

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Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer

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Okay. So this is from Ravesler uh on PES and Resler I think we did him on Pory before. So this is on Pes and he has several pieces maybe we'll see over the next couple weeks. Um so this one is the first one he has on and the question is of course we start he starts here not taken out of Egypt we would all be uh subservient to parro init. So obviously the question is by now thousands of years later we will not be subservient to paritim. So what does it mean that we see ourselves as if we are now subservient to there are many ways of answering this question many many ways but he's going to give his way any any matter any concept has an inner idea to it a deeper idea and even if we don't talk about being physically geographically under uh um the um control of the Egyptians there's a concept of being under control of other influences which he's going to discuss. Somebody looks based on the inner perspective who you sees everything primarily the spiritual essence of these matters the concept of golus to a person who looks superficially golus looks like you're in exile that's what golus means right I I'm supposed to be in I'm supposed to be I'm init rhyme. I'm not in my place. So that's what an exile literally means on a superficial level. Uh but a person who's spiritual and is and has an inner perspective he sees that the physical exile is so it's only that which came about as a result of something else. There was an insol and golus. The reason we're golus is as a penalty or as a consequence of

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  1. 0:01Okay. So this is from Ravesler uh on PES and Resler I think we did him
  2. 2:51Therefore the true reason for the ghost it's in in the the ghost of the soul.
  3. 5:36used to infer from the names which people gave to their kids names people's head what
  4. 8:16is on the Nile River and a couple of miles in either side of that. Once
  5. 11:27connection to feeling a connection to things which are holy and above this world. via the
  6. 14:14Egyptians. So they make a calf because the calf is a reminder of Egypt and the
  7. 16:57Okay. I have two questions. Um my first one is could you um reexplain um the
  8. 20:07sides of the Torah? So 70 represents the ultimate number like there were 70 bay so
  9. 22:56throughout history who have been completely swallowed by tuma. But amil has a special connection with
  10. 25:41wouldn't be possible but that is eternal took us out of he promises us I'm always

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