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Elul: Torah vs. Mitzvos | Part 2

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The Parsha In My Life - Rabbi Reuven Wolf

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Okay, welcome everyone to class. This is part this is the Thursday night class. This is the continuation of the discourse which I found was even though I didn't prepare last week at all and I found the discourse to be so amazing and everybody that learned it over here at least with us over here was like blown away by the power of this discourse and we're going to continue now. So this is part two. I would recommend everyone to listen to part one before you listen to part two. I'm not going to do much of a review. Um and I still didn't prepare the class. Okay. So we'll we'll let it the class. Okay. So we'll we'll let it happen with God's help. Okay. So we the mimemer was a a discourse from ribbal who was the fourth kabad reb and um this discourse was on given in 5633 which is 18 73 and it begins with the with the famous verse of the month of he first juxtaposes the two verses one he first juxtaposes the two verses one is I am to my beloved my beloved is to me. The other one's my beloved is to me and I am to him. Referring to as we discussed in the discourse the two forms of connection to God. One is through us rising up to him and then God reciprocating and the other one is God this first doing his thing first and we respond and we discussed that these were the two seasons of the year. One is the month of Nissan going out of Egypt which was an act of God first and then we were stimulated versus the month of Tish

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  1. 0:00Okay, welcome everyone to class. This is part this is the Thursday night class. This is
  2. 6:07he has attributes. Remember we said the main attribute is that he can create the big
  3. 12:33something about the Talmud that is pretty cool as well. Learning now learning is learning is
  4. 18:43But here is something else. Once God's light does come showering down to the world, you
  5. 25:00it's it's only resting place is in the ma is in the brain. That's why we
  6. 31:15don't know what to do. So you have to study Torah. So we'll teach you how
  7. 37:33large luminary and the small luminary is the Torah is the large luminary and mitzvah are
  8. 43:48on the nations. over here on the nations means on that which is not necessarily holy
  9. 49:58going to go into the same playing field where she's equal to Hmon, she might not
  10. 56:06How can the same thing be a strength and the answer is Torah comes from which

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