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Bouria was a very great sage, a very beautiful and intelligent wife of Rabbi Meir. The Gemara tells us two or three quite extraordinary stories about this woman. First, she was a very great sage of Israel. She knew the Torah in an extraordinary way, and Rabbi Meir is considered one of the greatest rabbis of all time. Rabbi Meir said that Ia is not like him because he is too profound. Everyone asks the question: if he is too profound, why wouldn't Ia be like him? On the him? On the contrary, that should be a reason for Ia to be like him. No, it's because Rabbi Meir is so profound. You know that in the beginning, Bisht starts with a "best," "best," it's the plural, it's duality, it's kosher, uh, passou mutar Asur Tam Taor, and so on and so forth, impure, pure. But originally, in the first breath of God, before creation, everything is one. There is no difference between the impure and the pure, there is no difference between pure, there is no difference between the forbidden and the permitted. Between what is hidden and what is not, Rabbi Akiva is capable of ascending to the conceptual heights of divine origin, to the point where the Gemara tells us he is not like him because he can make hidden what is not hidden, he can forbid what is permitted and permit what is forbidden, he can make pure what is impure and impure pure, and so on. Where does this power come from? Well, it comes from his ability to go back to the source of the primordial unity of meaning, before the dichotomy, before the separation of

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1. 0:00Bouria was a very great sage, a very beautiful and intelligent wife of Rabbi Meir. The…
2. 2:33considers that man, in his own way, is free enough, quite responsible for his actions, so…
3. 5:39Vamar, there he must be saying, "By your life, I promise you that one day you…
4. 8:17most profound issues between the Torah and modernity: the notion of essentialism and freedom. Does a…
5. 11:25Man can come into being through encounters, through experience, through will, through reading, through a spiritual…
6. 14:29thought that is feminine, that is... that inscribes... The feminine, well, it's certain that there are…
7. 17:01why Rabbiir orchestrated such a scenario, such a trap for his wife, a very dangerous one.…
8. 20:10is stronger in the Torah than essentialism. In the Torah, it is stronger, more radical, more…
9. 22:43distort a truth of the Torah is a perpetual hell that makes earthly life entirely relative.…
10. 25:49she committed a sin like that. B Ren, it's certain that no, it's not that she…

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