Lehallel
Authorizing approved playback

Torah · 42:29

Rabbi Gavriel Friedman - Food for the Soul: Time to Get Clarity

2.1K views · Jan 3, 2016

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

Ask this shiur

Ask in your own words — the answer is the exact moment this shiur speaks to it.

What’s said in this shiur

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

today's class is entitled rantings of a niche rabbi i will be your host let's begin so there is a very important there's a book called the messilesi asharam the path of the just written by quite a uh wise fellow by the name of moshe lutzado his acronym would be the ramhal khan luzada lived anyone know when 17s is correct he was alive in 1724 he lived from 1707 to 1746 in padua italy for those unfamiliar and did not do the math that means you died at the age of 39 years old as well born in panama and and he i don't know who knows this and how they know and if they know but it is said that the was a gilgal a reincarnated soul of rabbi akiva rabbi akiva one of the greatest sages that ever lived they got the temple from none other than moses himself rabbi akiva one of the greatest started studying tortured at 40 years old so 39 years of his life he missed out on so they say that the ramakaw or moshe muchado was the reincarnated soul that lived out those 39 years finished the job and then died one of his most well-known books the path of the just after the introduction the first thing he starts by saying she is amazed the reason i know that by heart is because a friend of mine made a song of it and i was singing it in my head as i was reading it now the esoters the foundation the roots of saintliness the vodo which again the foundation and the root of service lies in one's coming to clarity and truth what is his obligation in his world everybody got that now i was speaking with somebody recently now i was speaking with someone

Jump to a moment

  1. 0:12today's class is entitled rantings of a niche rabbi i will be your host let's begin
  2. 4:25of things don't really matter they understand because like what does it matter and everyone's going
  3. 8:51it was a good addendum right a certain extent kind of caused a lot of problems
  4. 13:03things most people the world don't work seven days a week most of the work the
  5. 17:16he says what he says avraham he says my name is adam and then he says
  6. 21:36controlling him therefore he worked on himself that's the idea of self-control nothing to do per
  7. 25:55you don't find that in new york you get into the driver's seat they kill you
  8. 30:05right now this we have these knee-jerk reactions though every so often you'll do this you're
  9. 34:18so then the word was relevant and just let's use qualitative yeah so what kind of
  10. 38:28wouldn't even say maybe i would say maybe you know what i would say we could

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library where each video was reviewed against one written standard before it could appear. No ads, no comments, no autoplay into anything unapproved.

More from Rabbi Dovid Orlofskyevery one approved
Why is this here?

Before this shiur could appear, it was reviewed against one written standard — the same standard for every video in the library, no exceptions and no algorithm deciding on its own. It is listed under Torah. If you believe something here does not belong, tell us — every challenge is read by a person.

Get the week’s best, by email

One email a week — a handful of approved shiurim and music. No account needed.

Know a family who would use this? Give a Lehallel membership.