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Rabbi David Yisrael Kalmus | The Truth Nobody Wants to Say

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BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute

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okay good so so in the beginning okay and adam and khabar were in the garden and hashem said don't eat from that tree what is a tree in essence a tree in the torah always represents consciousness it always represents a mindset whenever the torah speaks about a tree it speaks about a certain level of consciousness the tree of life represents the tree that makes you feel connected to hashem connected to the truth connected to yourself connected to reality the tree of the torah the tree of knowledge of good and its opposite the seemingly bad right so this is the tree that hashem said not to eat from don't eat from that tree because on the day that you eat from it you're gonna die however adam didn't die after they ate from it and neither did they actually live a remarkably long time but hashem doesn't lie everything hashem says happens so what does that even mean but if we understand now that these trees are two different consciousnesses if that's a real word one is the consciousness of unity that's the tree of life and the tree of the tovara the knowledge of good and bad why is it called dot because da ah doesn't just mean knowledge dalit dot like the balatani it says is a knowledge which unites and attaches and causes everything to become one that's the reason why that tree is called the knowledge of good and bad because it doesn't actually mean just the knowledge of both but that there is a unity of both meaning that if you eat from that tree you're not going to know the difference now between good and bad because they have been united

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  1. 0:02okay good so so in the beginning okay and adam and khabar were in the garden
  2. 6:26years before the world came into existence and everything that you experience in your life is
  3. 12:58these are all called lies why because it's all hashem ain't is not just a nice
  4. 19:21and if it's not always true it's not really true so the fact that all these
  5. 25:44should be learning torah that's the tree of life so if you're learning from the torah
  6. 32:27means that you are cogitating you are thinking about lies and let's say you're going to
  7. 39:03reality why because they talk to hashem every single day for at least an hour a
  8. 45:27heart says i want to be dependent on anything for my happiness and the torah says
  9. 52:06member society you don't need anybody to make you happy you could just be happy why
  10. 58:29that he should live and you believe that not just with your mind but with your

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