A Handful of Dust Motes: Rebbe Nachman's Discourses, 5-6

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Lazer Brody’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] >> Good evening from the south of Israel. This is Laser Brody with second lesson in Rebbe Nachman's discourses. This is our new series. Last week we learned discourse 1 through 4. There's no connection between one discourse and another, so it's just like with nothing. And there's nothing in the hand. And the same is world of all worldly desires. And the same is all full of non-Torah intellectual disciplines. We'll soon find out. That's what Rebbe Nachman is going to talk about in discourse in discourse number five, discourse hey. First what I'd like to do is to to get to know get the translation accurate. I have said it over first in Hebrew. Okay. The Rebbe strongly condemned all books The Rebbe strongly condemned all books that related to philosophy. That philosophy all the ideas, pie in the sky ideas, but you can't take them to buy groceries in the supermarket. If it's a a person other than a person a professor of philosophy that who's making making a living by doing philosophy? Who's doing better bettering the world with other than philosophy? It's all just speech, but it's actions that make the make the world better. The second if not >> And he compares them to the sacred text >> And he compares them to the sacred text of our great scholars like the Marsha from the Marsha Shif that comment on the Gamorah of the depth of analysis and the way they the way they they take apart things and the way they they understand the deep understanding is from divine understanding. The divine understanding is the base of all Torah. As we learn this that to the the sphere of which is the next highest sphere after the Keter after the crown. So, these are all very deep insights. And all

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2. 4:39with the person thinks twice before he transgresses. So, it's the first thing that you know…
3. 9:16agnosticism and atheism is it's going to be like climbing a glass wall with your fingernails.…
4. 13:55this level. No, it's going to stiff a stiff stiff stiff uh uh uh uh uh…
5. 18:31treasury they'd ever had. And this the the the the the the wise the wise one…
6. 23:07Rambam was in Spain but he had the influence in Spain but [snorts] but but the…
7. 27:40like us. And this is what the This is the teachings the Baal Shem Tov taught…
8. 32:12own. It came from a spark of divine wisdom because it was time for divine wisdom…
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