One with the Source of Life - Maamer V'hikrisem, Matos-Masei 5712 #6

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

memory of Harav Akiva ben Harav Reb Avraham Benjamin Zilberberg in honor of the yahrzeit on Chof Gimmel Tammuz tehei nishmaso tzrurah betzror hachaim and a good to better for his whole family betov hanireh vanigleh larichus yamin veshanim tovos unchefa brocha vehatzlacha and good health lamat measeres vacham and psuros tovos betoch klal Yisrael amen kein yehi ratzon. So, we're in the middle of the maamar of Shabbos parshas Mattos Masei tavshin yud beis, that's 1952 in the secular calendar and we are on the bottom of page 90. Somebody wrote to me somebody wrote a comment that I thought was very uh was very meaningful. So, usually I read the comments at the end, but I'm going to read this particular comment in the the now before I begin. This person who's a regular participant in these early morning classes wrote as follows. I'm listening to this maamar that you're teaching, this discourse that you're teaching. In my mind, it's the olive base of existence. Not knowing this truth of existence is like driving a car without ever learning how to drive and never learning, never reading a driving manual. Crashing is inevitable. I can only experience God's love when I can remain present with who I am. Being able to recognize both my strengths, my nefesh haklalis, my divine consciousness, my bittel, but also my shortcomings and other voices of klipah, and recognize both of them with honesty. It's in that space I can experience the unconditional love of God and become so grateful for all the good he gave me in my life. Also, at the same time, I can be introspective into those areas which need avodah and inner work. And I can own that avodah and that responsibility. When the view of who I am is distorted and all I experience is nonexistence,

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1. 0:31memory of Harav Akiva ben Harav Reb Avraham Benjamin Zilberberg in honor of the yahrzeit on…
2. 6:11with the divine and divine oneness. When I live enslaved, when I live a life that…
3. 12:20husk. I want to identify by my kedusha. What's my kedusha? My kedusha is that I…
4. 18:32I inhaled oxygen yesterday won't help me for today. I inhaled oxygen 5 minutes ago won't…
5. 24:44anything in kedusha becomes intrinsically alive. So what does it mean to live a life of…
6. 30:54not Hashem. Even you're not Hashem. But we're God's light, the Ohr of Hashem. What's Ohr?…
7. 37:06The reason that Ohr Ein Sof and Kaylee and neshamos of kedusha are intrinsically alive, their…
8. 43:15where I am fortunate and privileged to sit here and speak to you. Whenever there's something…
9. 49:28The connection between one and the other. But that connection is where there's also a compromise…
10. 55:3850. Malkinus half. The king nobody is going to substitute for. This is what the matter…

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