Dance of Purity | Rabbi Moshe Perlstein

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

The great and holy tzaddik, [music] the Rebbe Reb Shloimeh Karliner, is walking in the pre-dawn hours to the shul. You imagine, 250 years ago, [music] let's say it was the winter time, streets are empty, freezing cold. There's nobody out there besides [music] the shadow of the holy Reb Shloimeh Karliner. And he walks into the shul together with the all the other tzaddikim of his times, [music] and he says, "Chevreh, lomir tantzen, let's dance!" And he starts this the vaguest dance with such simcha, mamish vaguest dance with such simcha, mamish hopping on the tables and over the chairs. And his chevreh must think to themselves, [music] "Mazel tov! Did he have a baby? Did he win the lottery? What's this the simcha mazel oiseh?" After Shloimeh's mamish, like mamish bringing the whole oilam that mamish for sure, this is the simcha of all times. They're like, "Our dear friend, holy Reb Reb Shloimeh Karliner, what are you so much simcha about?" He says, "Dear friends, I made [music] it to the shul this morning without any nisionos baderech. I didn't see anything, I didn't have to. I made it

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1. 0:02The great and holy tzaddik, [music] the Rebbe Reb Shloimeh Karliner, is walking in the pre-dawn…
2. 0:34vaguest dance with such simcha, mamish hopping on the tables and over the chairs. And his…
3. 1:05anything, I didn't have to. I made it from my house to the shul mamish rain…
4. 1:36every time we hold back from seeing something or listening to something that might not be…
5. 2:06time a machshava comes across him >> [music] >> and he pushes it away, and he's…
6. 2:37ha'zeh, and you're creating a purity in the briah. What a simcha! If I would believe…

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