Derech Hashem / The Way of God #59 | The Anguish of the Soul and its Solution

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

um I'm going to resume uh saying on we are holding by by the it's first and uh it's basically C cotton uh hay five okay uh but it's been a while so I think it needs somewhat of a Kazar you know just to recap some of the ideas you know just to recap some of the ideas it's been quite a while in fact whatam has done in this uh section or this peric actually is he's talking about what's called the setup what exactly is the setup that a person finds himself in uh and um and then he's aiming toward a certain objective he's aiming toward a certain objective to explain certain ideas so in the beginning of the peric per peric do what he says is the really the following ideas the ran created a unique composite he created a being now normally there's two types of beings you're either spiritual or spiritual in that case you are an angel of Malik or you are physical you are an animal which you are physical you are an animal which is completely physical like I said so therefore there are only two types of beings spiritual animals which are completely physical so what did however is unusual he mixed the two fundamental elements together into one composite and that's a human what a human is he's a physical being yet he has aish which is in some

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1. 0:02um I'm going to resume uh saying on we are holding by by the it's first…
2. 6:18body has tremendous urges but also but the physical urges itself have tremendous obstruction to the…
3. 12:35decreed he limited the ability of the to do that so the is forced to be…
4. 18:49dungeon number one and then he he paralleled that to what is the Perfection of the…
5. 25:04who was that's right totally seethrough but it's more than just seethrough it's inert right now…
6. 31:14do it you see or am I do it because it's not because I want to…
7. 37:28the spiritual reality you know like uh you know for instance you know give happy is…
8. 43:41you know but in any case the main idea is that so what the Mitzvah does…
9. 49:54says that that will allow the go to really destroy you and they will be tremendously…
10. 56:06and enjoy life wait and enjoy life you see that's the way you feel about my…

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