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

and the ladder with angels going up and down but there's more to talk about and I wanted to uh tell you some more things about this vision before we move on to something else. There's a famous story that a man who learned alone for many years died and left many many notebooks of Torah and he uh left in his sabah that they should be buried with him and his children were distraught because they said their father wrote notebooks they would like to preserve and to print some of them and but they know it's a mitzvah m it's a mitzvah to the the will of the m but they felt that why should they put it in the ground if it could be shared with other people so uh they went and they asked and said that they should show him one paper from one of the notebooks And in it uh he asked the question on the vision of the ladder, why do angels need a ladder? And he answered that they must have been baby angels and baby angels don't need a don't have wings yet. So they needed a ladder. Surash said, "Okay, you could bury them." The idea being that there's no such thing as baby angels. Angels are not born from a mother and a father. So you could bury them. Now the idea it sounds almost like we're belittling the person. So there's there's different angles to this story. The first angle is that it's a warning not to learn always alone because if you learn alone, you could have a flawed understanding and nobody to correct you. If he had a ka would say, "What do you mean a baby angel? Who says there are baby angels?" you know, they're not born they're not born in my manades hospital. Um,

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