The Hidden Light of Shabbos Candles | pt. 1

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

So we are learning about shabises. The most important thing for us to be learning about and >> we have come onto what many would say is the symbol of Shabas which is candles. We I forgot to send you the meditation didn't I? >> Yeah. Right. >> Okay. You got to if you email me you have to every 3 days be like >> hi >> send it today or >> just keep going or yes you can send it [clears throat] >> just keep going I I eventually answer that at some point >> if not in this world in the world to come >> send it right now. So we [snorts] talk about chabas and we talk about candles n and or and we said that or and the candle and the light is really the physical representation of spirituality itself. So he said the whole universe the whole physical universe is is a mashal it's a an an analogy it's a physical representation of a spiritual idea. So a hand with its five fingers that we have is a physical representation of whatever this thing that Hashem has which is called a hand and he took us out of Egypt with his strong right hand and Rashi says on that puk yad mameish it was a real hand. So people get a bit scared by that and they say what Rashi thinks he had a real hand. No, Rashi is saying this is not a

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1. 0:00So we are learning about shabises. The most important thing for us to be learning about…
2. 4:14people it's very important to hear the story that when we were first married we lived…
3. 8:26and says it's saying I gave myself my soul I wrote it down and I gave…
4. 12:48of these candles. You can't see this spiritual light with your physical eyes, but in your…
5. 17:00can say that basically all the time. All the time, every day, I know what I…
6. 21:17and then you get more and more connection into the the matrix or out of the…
7. 25:33all the days of the week. It feels like sometimes they're struggling against each other. The…
8. 29:55then comes in >> and then at the comes in and then just before of the…
9. 34:22it's a mitzvah machine. That's all it is. And we said before that the body itself…
10. 38:47cup of water and I give you some water with my cup of water I've got…

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