Stop Hiding! - Parshat Bereishit

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

When God asked Adam, Adam, the first man, "Ayeka, where are you?" >> [music] >> He knew exactly where Adam was. God knows everything. So, what was he asking Adam? Hashem was saying to Adam, "What happened to you? What happened to you? A few moments ago, you were the crown of creation. The entire universe had been waiting for you. The stars had been hung in their places. The oceans had been poured into their basins. Trees and flowers had sprung from the earth. The sun and the moon had taken up their stations. And all of it was waiting for you. And now, you're hiding behind [music] a tree. Where are you?" Before we do something wrong, the yetzer hara, the negative drives, tells us that it's really nothing, a small thing. Claim a kite. Hardly worth worrying about at all. And after we've done that sin, the same yetzer hara changes his costume. And now he tells us, "Do you realize what you've done? How can you possibly stand before [music] God?" First, he makes the sin microscopic. And

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1. 0:00When God asked Adam, Adam, the first man, "Ayeka, where are you?" >> [music] >> He…
2. 0:30stations. And all of it was waiting for you. And now, you're hiding behind [music] a…
3. 1:02then he makes [music] it infinite, beyond hope and eternal. The purpose of both lies is…
4. 1:32that we never actually stop and ask ourselves where we are. The Kotzker Rebbe once said,…
5. 2:02Every morning we begin another Bereishit. Every mistake can be followed by another beginning. As long…

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