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Is THIS the Most Radical Teaching of Chassidus? (Tzidkas HaTzaddik #9)

Rabbi Yaakov Klein

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Okay, so the Ezra Hashem we are continuing with Sukatic. I haven't learned Sukatic in quite a while and we are continuing with which is one of the most controversial, challenging, shocking, astounding teachings in Sikatic, maybe in the whole corpus of Rupad, maybe in all of maybe in all of Yiddish kite ever. And I don't I'm not joking. I'm not exaggerating. It's it's it's it's really something that needs to be understood very carefully. Um and I I put as a very hopeful gesture um number 41, but we will not likely get to number 41 um at all. So it was just a reminder to me that you know can't spend forever on this. But let's talk about let's talk about Iceman. I would almost say infamous. It's very famous this teaching. Okay. So he comes right out of the gate Okay. So he comes right out of the gate in the first sentence. He's not uh pulling his punches and he says the essence of repentance, the essence of chuva is when Hashem enlightens a person's eyes. Let's just translate just so that will be that person's that he's presumably doing for doing for will be like mitzvah in other words that the person recognizes and comes to understand that all of his sins right we're also part of the will of the divine so you can understand why this would an extremely dangerous sentiment and an extremely shocking expressions just it it like jars it's jarring to

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  1. 0:00Okay, so the Ezra Hashem we are continuing with Sukatic. I haven't learned Sukatic in quite
  2. 5:44approach. He says this is not something that our human minds can understand. It's a paradox,
  3. 11:57the vacant space in an onlogical metaphysical sense in the embodied experience of it do you
  4. 18:12there hold on a second let's build it up let's build it up carefully let's exactly
  5. 24:21sum the whole avoid of chuva into one word, you guys have heard this from me
  6. 30:30Right. Paradoxically and this was a danger. What people forget is that it there's a that
  7. 36:11spheros right that extends all the way down through all the worlds but without getting into
  8. 42:27genuine act of cha which requires which requires genuine brokenheartedness which is what resolves the fear
  9. 48:48literally all of the in the Tyra rely on this it is the pinnacle the fundamental
  10. 54:58chapter 16. One of the foundations of chuva in the mind of a person is the

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