Ricky Cohen Class Recording 11/16/21The Soul of Hanukah

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

and we will start great to see everybody all righty um we're going to do uh we're gonna we're gonna do something a little different tonight sort of a throwback to the style that we've done uh in the past and uh we're not doing any hala for tonight despite the strong demand for the horde we're going to hold off on that for tonight all righty rabbi arya kaplan anybody remember him rabbi arya kaplan anybody remember him rabbi arya kaplan so he was a uh it was one of the giants of the 20th century although i know he passed away young uh in his forties her mid to mid 40s and what he did is he brought a lot of ideas kabbalah related ideas hey mickey hawaiian he brought kabbalah related ideas to everybody he had a beautiful style of writing writing he was a self-made uh really built his torah and uh had a beautiful style as well so he says a very interesting thing he says that you want to understand it's all about the dreidel he says it's all about the dreidel what does that mean he writes as follows he writes hanukkah is defined by the dreidel hanukkah is defined by the dreidel because everything goes in cycles i'm quoting man becomes angel angel becomes man head becomes foot foot becomes head everything goes in cycles revolving and alternating all things interchange one from another and one into another elevating the low and lowering the high what is he saying what is one he brings two perspectives on the dreidel this being

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1. 0:00and we will start great to see everybody all righty um we're going to do uh…
2. 5:35shafel meaning the basic world so he says what is god hanukkah obviously he says is…
3. 11:43yakov doesn't hashem um tell him afterwards that he's a nagoyama the kidnap an egg but…
4. 17:50they will never coexist in one platform and therefore this element of circumcision need not happen…
5. 23:57meaning this thing the most powerful the most autonomous of all elements of creation time this…
6. 30:04what would have evolved was that man would have become god as people thought they were…
7. 36:16why do we say tuesday's the day very important perspective what happened what was created on…
8. 42:28great okay good that's hellenistic they say everything starts with man oh but you know what…
9. 48:40akadosparco wants to tell us that we were living in an idyllic world without toils without…
10. 55:18god-given law is exacted in daily life is up to you if there's anything that could…

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