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The Story of Jacob & Esau Finally Makes Sense - Kabbalah & Mysticism

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Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

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college borough created us with two drives two impulses the eight zertov and the eta hara hazal darshan bachol i really should have said because why the two beds to indicate to us that we have two hearts two drives in the heart the drive which is the eight zertov the what's called the good inclination and the atari are the evil inclination the question is how is a person supposed to serve hashem with the sahara with his evil drive what does that mean that's the question i want to examine tonight asav excuse me it's connected with the azahara asav is the atara yakov is the eighth heart of but we're going to see it's not quite as simple as that it says in the possibly look at note number one yitzhak loved asev because literally trapping was in his mouth verify and rivka loved yaakov so rashi explains look at the next rashi bef that he used his let's just finish off russia the exegetical understanding of that is the pivx that asa would trick would trap with his mouth he would lead a stray yitzok with his mouse tired with sado say he would trap him ooh miri meu devorov and uh fool him with his words now the arizal explains that said bef this expression trapping with his mouth who say that of course according to this sort of shot him in russia one says he's talking about yidsok's mouth but according to those who understand that the cyber people of the mouth of asov was talking that this is referring to rebbi akiva that yitzhak sensed tara shabalpe in the mouth of asov yitzhak sensed he felt the torah shabalpe and indeed akiva kula alibaba rabbi akiva everything goes according to rebbi kiva rib yakiva who is the great

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  1. 0:00college borough created us with two drives two impulses the eight zertov and the eta hara
  2. 5:22i'm pointing this out because specifically it mentions teresa balpe that's avraham aveeno as we learned
  3. 11:21heavens and earth would not exist it says in the passage were it not for my
  4. 16:40and the other ghazal says that in the beginning that hashem thought right in the beginning
  5. 22:26holy said sita begets makes the necessity of didn't exist this is the secret understanding of
  6. 27:56it's not there okay give me a second oh here we are there's a very famous
  7. 34:00i learned for you i learned to i learned teresh about her for you this is
  8. 39:14dying of thirst give him water the plainest possible thing something that you only ever make
  9. 45:04the real reason is as we said with everything is the tam hatov when a person
  10. 50:18that had visited that sweetness the desire for torah is connected inextricably with the desire of

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