A shiur on the spiritual origins of Ashkenazic and Sefardic Jews, based on Kabbalistic teachings.
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we're ending peric do actually R Now talks about Tah the significance of what the Torah is and that it's the greatest when you learn turet canect get kulum which means it can draw down the greatest amount of divine Force energy and it therefore creates the greatest amount of zik you know and so on you know so uh I gave a lot of the ideas about Tah in the Rite lot of the ideas about Tah in the Rite this year which you can easily find out online so I don't want to repeat those ideas but what I would like to do is just give you some more ideas the main idea was that when you learn tra that I I'll mention you know the main idea is that when you learn the tah itself you draw down the greatest Force now there are 10 spheres from Ker those are 10 and um what you do when you learn Tero which is the only one that does it it can draw down the energy or the force the she the from the first sphere which is the greatest kesser and that that sphere of Kessa which is the the the greatest sphere of all is really the sherish the root of all the Spheres below you see and that's why when you learn Tura you can draw down from the highest place which is the
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