Was Na’aseh V’Nishma Real — Or Just Spiritual Excitement?

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The opening of this shiur, in R' Shlomo Katz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Addressing [snorts] the question of of the It seemed what seems to be the inherent inner contradiction that we that we live with quite often by ourselves. Do we really want what we say we want? How could we want something and at the same time not want it? And the greatest examples he was giving over here was basically what was like at member where we learning and on the one hand we said not yes and on the other hand inside was it the little mouse says we were we were seducing God with words. Every word and how do you think that Every word and how do you think that at the same moment that we were saying and we were saying that we were still we were still so to speak worshipping idols at the same time. >> [snorts] >> And this was what this is what Abba said and he said in the that it's just impossible to to to have the offy the character of this nation of that we could be two things at the same time and really really be there. Like not like not sometimes I feel this and not like not sometimes I feel this and sometimes I feel this but at the same time the same time simultaneously it seems to be contradicting opponents in terms of our [clears throat] emotional and and our wills. It's very very [snorts] strange. It was definitely an eye-opener as to our situation at Sinai. And the Rebbe told the Rebbe left us last week with saying that we got reward, we got reward, we got the Torah

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1. 0:30Addressing [snorts] the question of of the It seemed what seems to be the inherent inner…
2. 5:06kashik he wants something. He wants a specific thing very very much. You desire something in…
3. 9:43Is that Is that mine? So, it's I'm I know like we're downplaying here NASA of…
4. 14:52Bnei Yisrael b'emes chotzu b'derech Hashem v'ratzu l'kayem v'leches We really wanted the Torah of Hashem…
5. 19:26So I asked them, I said, "Do you Do you say I love you to each…
6. 24:31very very very excited. So, Hashem, what did you get out of it? Well, Hashem is…
7. 29:08But if it never if it never gets into if if you don't have any secrets…
8. 33:49to come and and and put its Like to be cynical about something. Huh? Like to…
9. 38:53he says, "First is ruach sa'arah oisa davara." He says, "There needs to be a ruach…
10. 43:31baalei teshuvah. And they were married for many years later and then they had a bunch…

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