A lecture on Jewish philosophy and worldview by Rabbi Mendel Kessin.
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yeah so we're we're into the dark hashem which we've you know i've left quite a while already you know uh i think we're on paragumo uh simon good so i will begin there you know and the ramkha continues uh in terms of the uh and so on and i think i had once mentioned that what is the essential mentioned that what is the essential what does immersion want really what is the essential task in a certain sense and the idea to that really is that there are several different aspects of the creation if you want to look at it there are different dimensions of creation the first one is the dimension of divinity or god whoever he is you know there's a reality called god that's one that's one type of reality second type of reality is called is a spiritual reality so in many ways that's what it is but the spiritual reality comprises really two subsections one is the spiritual worlds which are the worlds let's say the malwacom and kapolei it would be oh it's called ancillas and brio and syria and so on you know that's certainly spiritual we have no ideas about what the law what laws govern these realities we don't know what type of beings they are but they have their own physics so to speak their own realities you know but even them they don't know what ulam haba is nobody they don't know what ulam haba is nobody knows what little mahabharata is so therefore we can subject spiritual reality to two types one is spiritual reality which is deficient for the first one and the second one is which is also spiritual but it is so unlike the spiritual the first one that even malachi have no idea of what is because it says i said i knew
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- 0:30yeah so we're we're into the dark hashem which we've you know i've left quite a…
- 6:06concerned what it is um you could recall that report i said yeah it's more existence…
- 12:19what that is in other words it's almost like the body is not the shama but…
- 18:54the amount of input in terms of mitzra's good deeds whatever you want to call right…
- 24:59now let's take the amount of pleasure that mankind has experienced now in all the years…
- 31:13thing as evil although we don't really understand that at his level everything is everything is…
- 37:27it says in the moral from sauro agra the from sorrow right the uh the pain…
- 43:37and we know that the last land of the last letter is and they're large wide…
- 49:42the russian knows the ms he will see that if a person is truly a regular…
- 55:59which is beyond belief yes that means every minute you do is equal to a vulnerability…
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