Parshat Eikev with Reb Meir Elkabas - The Funnel of Hope

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The opening of this shiur, in BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Shalom everybody, welcome back to insights in the parsha of the week, parshat Eikev. And this is the sham we're now getting ready within the 45-day period before Shoshana and as is known in Breslov circles, this is a very special time of yearning, intense, intensified yearning and davening to be by Rebbe Nachman for Shoshana be ezrat Hashem. So this week's parsha, Eikev, um has it's the the the bulk of these parshas, you know, Eikev, Re'eh, also va'etchanan, are a lot of moralistic teachings, not like laws and stuff. We're going to get to laws, you know, after end at the end of Re'eh is going to start again Mishneh Torah. But until then, the Torah is like teaching us perspectives, why why to serve Hashem, why not to sin, why to be proper, why to be good, the purpose of entering the land, the Holy Temple, you know, teshuvah, basic moralistic ideas are taught to the Jewish people by Moshe Rabbeinu before he's leaving the world. Chapter 11, parshat Eikev, this week's parsha, chapter 11, so it starts off, you have to love Hashem and to fulfill the Torah. And you should know that Hashem has proven enough to you that he's your God. So then so Moshe Rabbeinu begins to like enumerate all types of miracles that Hashem did for you at the splitting of the Red Sea, what he did to the to the the the the horses, the chariots of Egypt, all the signs you saw like said in Egypt and the what Hashem did in the desert, the miracles. And then verse six

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1. 0:01Shalom everybody, welcome back to insights in the parsha of the week, parshat Eikev. And this…
2. 1:02so it starts off, you have to love Hashem and to fulfill the Torah. And you…
3. 2:34which I shall do that time of the year I'm swallowing them up amongst all Israel.…
4. 3:35that the earth had many mouths not just one mouth to open up and swallow them…
5. 5:05the funnel going downhill towards the mashpekh being poured to that one opening. And that where…
6. 6:36By Rabbi Yehuda, it's instant. Wherever he is, the earth opens up and he's and he's…
7. 7:37to give a consolation, to give a hope. His opinion is give them a chance to…
8. 9:07Moharan lesson 24, calls it a bitishah. A bitishah is when a person gets a smack,…
9. 10:07we tell the person it was a build-up. It doesn't happen suddenly. You don't say, "Oh,…
10. 11:40to give a person Qatar the Keter pushes a person back in order to give him…

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