The Super-Rationality of Moving to Israel Now (Sichos Haran #216, 217)

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

Okay. So, thank you everybody for joining. Let's jump into our sources for today. We're taking a look at Sichos Saran Resh Tes Zion. And this begins slightly new section in Sichos Saran, which is speaking about Rebbe Nachman's strong insistence that we stay away from philosophical speculation and an academic experience of Yiddishkeit where our emunah is founded upon our reasoning as opposed to founded upon our reasoning as opposed to much more of an emotional and relational experience with Yiddishkeit. And so here he quotes from the Alshich Hakadosh, who was one of the students in the circle of the Ari of the Ari Hakadosh in Tzfas. And he brings Iyan Alshich al Mishlei. He says, "Take a look at the Alshich Hakadosh on Sefer Mishlei B'frat, B'kapitel Zion, particularly in chapter seven, which really addresses this almost explicitly. But there are Shlisha Machavadi B'Azara, let's try to make Iyan Sham." Iyan Sham." In that particular place, the Alshich speaks [clears throat] all the more strongly and forcefully about this topic. U'medaber Sham B'derech Tzacha U'nifla. He speaks there in a in a sweet and a wonderful way. U'mazbir Hadavar and he explains Eich Hem Matim Es Ha'olam. How sources like these and approaches like these fool the world. That place an overemphasis on intellectualization and the academic or cognitive side of an experience of something deeper experience of something deeper over experience and our own emotional engagement and faith more simply said as we're going to see. So he says over there the Alshich Hakadosh explains the way that these approaches fool the world. Sheb'techila because at the outset Einam Megalim Es Ha'kashus V'ha'kfiya She'lahem. At the outset, you don't necessarily epicarces k'fira, right? Things that are

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