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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.

Okay, today's class is dedicated by Daniel Penn in tribute to the brave souls of the Israeli Defense Forces whose tireless dedication and courage defend our nation, our people, our homeland, our freedom, our life. May God bring all of them and every hostage home safely. Amen. Graciously dedicated Osa Khan Coronel in memory of her dear beloved mother Bimma Basim Yak in tribute to her yardite on the sixth day of today. May she remain an eternal source of light, blessing and inspiration to you and the entire family and all of the Jewish people. Thank you very very much. We're going to study today hashemarak a a story that's related in the garra in the talmud trackctate khaga page 14. It's one of those stories when you read it for the first time and even the second or third time it's extremely enigmatic. It's very you could see that there are layers of profoundity contained here but very difficult to decipher what it means and uh this particular story seems so enigmatic so filled with mystery and the connection and the just juxtaposition of ideas and insights seems extremely difficult to comprehend. And yet upon deeper reflection, we're going to learn basm that there's a whole world of ideas and relevance that is unraveled here. So let's begin. It's your first source. You have it in the Hebrew, the original, and it's also an English translation if you want to follow the English translation. As I said, it's track page. That's 14b. He begins with a following story. This is a very well-known passage, but the passages afterwards are a little less known, which means the rabbis taught four people, four human beings, four individuals went into the paradis. Paradis literally means an orchard, a garden. It's called the parades. And here it's a metaphor. It's a euphemism for they ascended mentally to a

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