The Holiness of Addiction | Likkutei Torah Ki Savou #2

What’s said in this shiur

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

Good morning everybody. Just give me a thumbs up that you could see me and hear me. Beautiful. Welcome. We begin Monday morning this week. The Mymer of the Baal Hatanya of the Alter Rebbe in Likutei Torah Parshas Behar. The first Mymer Ki Savo El Ha'aretz. V'shovsaha Aretz Shabbos L'Hashem. We're going to continue now. The Alter Rebbe in the beginning of the Mymer began to explore the verse in the Song of Songs Shir Hashirim quote Kol Dodi Dofek Pischili Achosi Rayosi Yonasi Somasi. My beloved one is knocking on the door, open up the door for me my sister, my wife, my love, my dove, my twin. And he explains, it's not just open up the door for me my sister. Pischili. Open up the door for me inside of your heart. Open up, create an opening heart. Open up, create an opening so that we should be able to experience each other as Achosi Rayosi Yonasi Somasi. Until you don't create that opening, that relationship is always present, but it could be concealed, it can be relegated to the subconscious cellars of a person's psyche. Pischili, create an opening so that this relationship in the state of Achosi should be revealed. What is a hishy? A hishy comes from the word connection. A hishy comes from the word connection. Like the Gamoran might cut and have off I hear Alexandris and Alexandria knot. Two things that are separate but through the knot they're fused into one. And this is the brother of a the sib- the sibling. It's two separate people and they remain two separate people and they go on to build their own families and leave their home, but ultimately as he says, there is an innate an intrinsic bond and connection that could never be severed.

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1. 0:00Good morning everybody. Just give me a thumbs up that you could see me and hear…
2. 6:13animosity, and a host of many other toxic or disturbing, or promiscuous, or immoral inclinations, proclivities,…
3. 12:18from it. Ki hinei, the answer is behold, ahava zu, this very love, listen to his…
4. 18:28You have to know who you are. There's a person who's less sensitive. There's a person…
5. 24:06This power of craving the physical things is rooted in this desire to be separate and…
6. 30:22You're harnessing it the wrong way. You're directing it and channeling it in things that are…
7. 36:28Geresh Hakadosh Tes, "Michamcha K'Yisrael Echad Ba'aretz." Who is like your nation Israel, one nation on…
8. 42:07And therefore they must run away to get distracted. They need validation. They need respect. They…
9. 48:46that I'm outside of Hashem. I'm separate. I'm not a channel for infinity. In other words,…
10. 54:58that's what where history is is going now, where we realize that there's no real concealment.…

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