A Torah shiur on Derech Hashem by Rabbi Mendel Kessin.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Mendel Kessin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
ok so let's so if you'll call now last week I had mentioned to a very important ideas that is Ray if it's critters the concept of an existential fear or in actually extension inferiority that's really what it is you know and I had mentioned that as you know last week that that a person not only develop that that a person not only develop sings I inferiority when he's born because an infant after one when it gets over to Lucian's you know what it is and so on develops a certain anxiety or actually inferiority terms of what it is because it realize it's an infant and it needs others for survival and once you need others for survival so it's possible that the other people won't be there for you and that's the end of it you know but like I mentioned that there you know but like I mentioned that there is a concept called it's an existential inferiority and automation had that are then the extension Ferrari the fear actually is because the neshamah was removed from the revolution element because in shomer before it comes here is in a state of Baker's leave it or not neshama is in a state of Vegas attachment to God and as such it's receiving whatever a person will receive receiving whatever a person will receive what is attached to God you know which of course is an incredible experience but as part of that experience is an unbelievable sense of being it's critical when you are connected to version okay all the insecurities the fears you know says up here tomorrow all that kind of stuff is gone there's an unbelievable feeling of real existence real being and this is what happens
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- 13:31exercising being as I feel I am so not only have I satisfied my stomach I've…
- 19:50you know the dis foundation and so on so forth just to figure out when well…
- 26:04enigma condo what they did have was that struggle he richly toss so they knew God…
- 32:17know why else will he make his brother the coin goggle and so on you know…
- 37:54that's the best what the hell you know you too might a man a person that…
- 44:08him he says I can't go there I can't cut the demonstration they put up sign…
- 49:48arrogance is I am brilliant and I am brilliant you see we actually feel you somebody…
- 56:32an infant so as an infant we feel we were nothing and if we don't have…
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