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Weekly Hashkafa Shiur #40 | The Method of How to Think and Learn

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Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses the method of thinking and learning in Derech Hashem.

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as requested we are now going to go into uh the safe der hashem the way of god that ram khao has written which in many ways provides a real basic understanding of the blueprint of creation which is really very important you know now what you see from the ram khal now what you see from the ram khal is that the all of creation has a blueprint in other words it's sort of like an architectural plan that everything has a reason why it is and there are many things to know uh when you're looking at you know what the reality is all about you know for instance first of all what are the things of reality are the things of reality and uh how are they arranged what are their characteristics and how are they interrelated how do they function and and so on this this reality this whole bria this whole um creation if that we want to call that concept of creation has an enormous amount of things in it and as such each thing that is in it and as such each thing that is in it is there for a specific purpose so the ramkha wrote a basic primer a basic safer on to explain the entire structure of this reality and it includes all kinds of all kinds of material now what is interesting is that he starts off the safer is that he starts off the safer in his introduction it doesn't start off with the hash kafa with the actual understanding of the blueprint itself he starts off with an understanding of thinking or how to arrive at true knowledge you see this is something that really we should really come to understand

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  1. 0:00as requested we are now going to go into uh the safe der hashem the way
  2. 6:10that type of organization has a certain name it's called tiff edit beauty what is beauty
  3. 12:20so you could read one side and automatically you could read that side reading the side
  4. 18:33and ultimately speaking that is restoring the torah to its original form you see and that's
  5. 24:46and that's called clues you see he looks at different clues and he's hoping that each
  6. 31:00he put it all together in an arranged table where everything is seen in relationship to
  7. 37:12is a verbal statement right it's a verbal statement right that enables the person to use
  8. 43:21cities and then in cities you begin to look at what's called neighborhoods and then from
  9. 49:31rabonachiram is the greatest piece of information and not only that it is information that ultimately
  10. 55:38that's ultimately what the world is is embroidery the tapestry that we're looking at in it

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