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Likkutei Torah Behar #2: Our Institutions of Higher Education Did Away With the Concept of Truth

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

Rabbi YY Jacobson discusses the loss of truth in modern institutions of higher education in this Likkutei Torah class.

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okay good morning everybody welcome we began last year the first of Bahar par Bahar we're middle of the first pic the first chapter so on top it says Bahar and it's page 79 in the Hebrew it's meem column 1 for [snorts] the father's name is okay today's class is dedicated by Dr Lenard cirin in honor of Dr sarin's amazing parents Mikel and Natalia and to his beautiful children David Gabriela and ariela thank you drin and God bless you we really appreciate it so we discussed in the beginning of the M the he began with explaining the [snorts] the voice of my beloved is bang is is knocking on the door open up for me my sister and rosi is my uh my friend Reya or my shepherd or my spouse my wife yasi my Dove and sasi is my twin toas or my complete one and the bat explains that theat is that open up for me create an opening so that you will be able to experience the fact that you are my sister you are a because even though this is the essential state of is but it can be revealed and it can be concealed as he puts it it could be sometimes it's revealed and sometimes it could be eclipsed so when removing the blockage you open up so that this can be revealed in order to understand this what is this he said what is this what is this state of consciousness and and what is what blocks it so he started to explain what the explain what the what a started to explain what a is comes from the word in there's an expression remember Alexandri an alexandrian not and an is a type of not that is so skilled and professional that it takes

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  1. 0:01okay good morning everybody welcome we began last year the first of Bahar par Bahar we're
  2. 6:36animal soul and the body nonetheless the Divine soul is that they remain in that state
  3. 13:06breathe if I meditate if I bur whatever it is I can go back to that
  4. 19:51yeah cuz it's EMS [laughter] we don't have a better expression cuz it's MS [laughter] [snorts]
  5. 26:17[laughter] I felt that all the philosophy was to justify his choice and my and I
  6. 32:48like OPP of but it says in that says that it's the beginning and it's the
  7. 39:13midad means I'm never going to let go of that EMS I don't care it's 24/7
  8. 45:47is called the skin of the snake it's referring to the that's what it's rooted in
  9. 52:46he stops and he starts thinking [laughter] he's thinking and he's drinking his coffee and he's
  10. 59:12with the a in the place of a I don't need to be insecure and I

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