Moshe & The Rock: The Mystery of Pain

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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.

Okay, today's class is dedicated in honor of Benster for a complete and speedy recovery and for all the blessings. Thank you very much and a complete recovery of four. [clears throat] The first para that we read this week is parasukas. As I said last week in Yiddish and Tyra names are very crucial because they capture the inner theme of the person or the para or the thing or the idea that is given the name as it says inim that the channels of energy come through a name. This same is true with the name of a portion. The word kukas as commentators explain is the concept of a which means a law a statue but a specific yeah beautiful thank you a specific type of of of law which has an element of mystery to it or maybe much of It is mysterious and I find it very powerful that this the name of the parish because essentially the week is a week of mystery. It's a week of kukas. It's a portion filled with mystery. It's named of course after the opening mitzvah of the para which is a most confounding mystery in Judaism that even considered the wisest of all people said I said to myself, I was a wise person and yet this remained distant from me. And he was referring to the mysteries of the paradum of the red heer which purifies a human being or a vessel that was contaminated by contact with death. So even Malik, you know, throws up his hands and feels that he can't really master the depth of this mitzvah of this ritual

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1. 0:02Okay, today's class is dedicated in honor of Benster for a complete and speedy recovery and…
2. 6:38water, and you will bring forth for them water from the rock for them and all…
3. 12:56sending the spies. This was just uh [laughter] this was just like, you know, a pretext,…
4. 19:33Hashem said speak to the rock and it's just going to flow. The water is going…
5. 25:55the rock. Salon is the water of Tyra. Hashem told him speak to the rock and…
6. 32:27water is not just a nice thing. It's essential to life. Nobody and uh nothing can…
7. 38:49definition, words are limiting. Rabu told Hashem right when he met him, I am not a…
8. 45:40uh brokenness, shame in such a deep space and I don't even have the regular cumin.…
9. 52:16They're containers. Now sometimes they do an amazing job that they always put it into a…
10. 58:42the divine presence it's just the way it is what does it take for people's egos…

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