How Your Thoughts Affect Your Reality -- In Halacha, Science & Psychology

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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.

Welcome everybody. Thank you everybody for joining us. Want to thank all the people who have made this special evening possible. Tonight, today, it's Gimel Tammuz, the third day of Tammuz, 26th Yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Zeya Chaim Zalman ben Baruch So, I'm excited to teach and learn together a shiur, a sicha, a talk of the Rebbe that he presented on Shabbos Parshas Eikev Tav-Shin-Mem-Hey. That summer, 1985, one of the Rebbe's takanos was to learn a shiur Rambam every day, Mishneh Torah Rambam, either one perek which finishes the cycle in 3 years or three prakim which finishes the cycle in one year. So, the Rambam's Mishneh Torah that Shabbos, it was the halachos of Trumah, which are discussed in this week's parsha, Parshas Korach. [snorts] So, the Rebbe then gave a long shmu, a shmu is a shiur, a pilpul, a sicha on b'ezras Hashem. Okay, yes, it's open. It's going to be a text-based shiur. Oopsie. Okay. Okay, wonderful. Can you talk louder, please? Okay, I'm going to try to talk louder, and I will lower the mic a little bit, so maybe that will help. I'll lower the mic, so Okay. So, you can download your source sheets. We're going to open We're going to begin b'ezras Hashem in 1 moment. [snorts] The topic we are exploring this evening is how your thoughts, how my thoughts, how our thoughts affect reality, in halacha, in science, and in psychology. The first part of the class is going to deal with the halacha. Then we're going to explore the way it's reflected in science, in modern physics,

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1. 0:00Welcome everybody. Thank you everybody for joining us. Want to thank all the people who have…
2. 7:17props for this shiur. So, here are apples. Yeah. What happens if I separated an apple…
3. 13:29and there's only 50 white figs. Comes Rebbi Yehoshua and says, "It's not a problem, because…
4. 19:39even though you didn't do that, the 50 black and the 50 green combine to be…
5. 26:00Rebbe Akiva's logic we also have to understand. Rebbe Akiva tells me that if I didn't…
6. 32:31the permissible and the forbidden is not recognized. Even though they physically did not get mixed…
7. 38:31there's 50 black figs. What does he see here? From his perspective of what I want,…
8. 45:14There's a fascinating new argument to Reb Yeshua. In our mishna, it says, what does Reb…
9. 51:33taruvus yavish b'yavish. Even though, mitzad the fig itself, the reality itself, they're not mixed. It's…
10. 57:40changes from tevel to becomes kosher. How does all this happen? It all happens through my…

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