Rabbi Guy Matalon - The Book of Ruth - Part 1

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

if you remember the book of ruth and we were looking at the way the gra learns the sort of the background to the story and the government of illness says that really god relates to the world in two ways either through or din those are the two ways qasid is expanding thereby giving and giving and giving and thin is the opposite of expansion contraction which seems to us at least taking and taking and taking although it's not really it's not giving but it feels like taking now so he says that we should emulate hashem we should emulate god in the same way that we should live our life with both ways of dealing uh with the world one with expansion and one with deen oh so when do we know how to apply this one as opposed to that one how does that work so he explains that anything that comes to re from spirituality which is called ruchnios you are supposed to follow hesed expand and expand and expand grow and grow and grow anything that the body desires that is physical you should contract contract contract clear now he says if you don't do that if you go the other way and whenever your body sort of desires things and you give it to it you just feed it so he says what really happens is your neshama is not going to be able to move higher and higher in the levels that it could or it should because the body is pulling it down because the body becomes stronger and stronger and stronger and draws the soul lower and lower and lower whereas if you limit the body and you

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