Likkutei Torah Al Ken #5: The Loop of Obsession -- How to Avoid the Trap of Shame and Guilt

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

It's page 130. Parshas Chukas 130. On top it says Chukas page 130, the first column. Holding Ois Gimmel of the Maimer. Okay, in Hebrew I might as well in the Hebrew it's Samech column three. Daled Samech column three. Okay. Today's class is dedicated leilui nishmas Yisrael ben Shmuel. Tehei nishmaso tzerura betzeror hachaim in the loving memory of Reb Yisrael ben Reb Shmuel. May his soul continue to be a source of love and inspiration for all of his loved ones and all of the Jewish people. And uh a good to better melitz yosher for the entire mishpacha and tehei nishmaso tzerura betzeror hachaim. Thank you very much. We should be zocheh take kids of Iran and Moshiach now for the coming of Mashiach. Okay. So how do we summarize what we learned? There was perek aleph and perek bet. Perek aleph is memaleh kol almin perek bet is sovev kol almin. The first perek was about olam shanah nefesh. Right? Olam is the space of the universe and all of the creations of the universe and all of the universes. Nefesh is the divine spirit, the nefesh, the soul, the consciousness that animates everything and everybody at and the shidduch between the two with the shatchan is shanah which is time. The energy of time which Alter Rebbe explains is really ratzo

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1. 0:00It's page 130. Parshas Chukas 130. On top it says Chukas page 130, the first column.…
2. 6:19through the tzimtzum, through the holding back, and through the restrictions, and through the concealments. And…
3. 12:39understand the difference? It's a key difference. The experience of the machshavah zarah itself, yeah, that's…
4. 19:05scientist. Doesn't matter what type of window pops up on the computer, he knows exactly how…
5. 25:22You know, some there's some stories in this world that are horrific beyond horrific. And uh…
6. 31:43shouldn't have watched. I ate something I shouldn't have ate. I did something I shouldn't have…
7. 38:09It doesn't mind. That's the worst thing you do. Of course. Right. Bechlona. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.…
8. 44:22That means all the different moving parts are part of a cohesive whole. When pieces start…
9. 50:40HE ACTUALLY GOT IT. He He left the realm, the confinement, and he opened himself up…
10. 57:08mental energy has to go somewhere. Right now I'm I'm getting I'm talking. I'm giving a…

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