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A foundational story about Rebbe Nachman and a struggling Chassid offering a fresh perspective on spiritual struggle.
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Cesar of nothing of zal listen to every word here it's radical it's it's radical as they come it's so different it's so beautiful it's so really he says one time a person came to Reddin Ahmed and he was complaining it's so hard for me to Daven he said I have so many distractions it's so hard for me to focus he was having such a difficult time such a challenging time as we're gonna see such a painful time wanting to Daven right with having a good intention and you just and he can't do it because the mashabazarus are attacking him distracting thoughts lonely thoughts immoral thoughts sinful thoughts foreign just trying to focus Us in on the really important parts foreign for you initis oven and take this it should be a kapara and listen to these two all-important words and then laughed a little bit this is something else you see how radical this is right what do you mean I'm having a sinful thought and I should and this is a capara for me like I need a kappara for the thoughts that I'm having what are you telling me so Zina kapara why is Rubino laughing because there's something strangely humorous about this the dissonance between what we normally think is suggesting here is so vast that it it's it's incongruent it produces laughter explains what this will end this year for today you would think that on paper this guy who's had having all these terrible thoughts needs to do chuva for those thoughts they themselves are sinful they themselves are problematic the Arcane and that's why every nachman left
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- 0:33he was having such a difficult time such a challenging time as we're gonna see such…
- 1:37this is something else you see how radical this is right what do you mean I'm…
- 2:38because knew exactly what he was saying and you know how radical this was and he…
- 3:43and the point here is that we should apply this much more broadly not just in…
- 4:51and Ruby National laughs the laughter of because this is the laughter that brings us to…
- 5:54for sin not the proper response for sin like we learned things are born out of…
- 6:55goal if you'll be able to walk with a Muna in this place also to recognize…
- 7:55because everything is born in that place of Shame okay that we'd be wise to remember…
- 8:56that you're telling through me and it's my privilege and our privilege if we can to…
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