Ricky Cohen Class Recording 3.2.21The Forces That Shape Us

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Ricky Cohen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

all right great okay the um hey celeste how are you hi maj all right all righty we'll start okay great okay so tonight we're going to speak about uh something called the forces that shape us and it's going to be a little different than what we're going to do um all right okay great okay so let's let's talk a little bit about how we how we live in the world and then we're gonna sort of drill down to to where we want uh where we want to end up so in the first class on purim we mentioned the concept of nibua of prophecy and we said that prophecy enables us to get involved in our world us to get involved in our world beyond what reality allows in other words everybody has the ability to utilize this yet this knowledge this kodesh this language from the heavens it's available to everybody on varying levels at various periods of time call it call it divine inspiration call it low-grade prophecy but it's available to everybody available to everybody all the time in varying levels and it enables us to think beyond what our basic reality provides and we all we learned it together we talked about it with something we've all known and what it we accept it hi gayle honey we accept it we say yeah that's right we have the ability to think to be engaged to think to be engaged beyond what our basic senses allow because prophecy and connecting to people on that level is common to the jewish people we've spoken about and and in that respect the uh there's something beautiful in the parshiot and that verse in varying forms

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