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The Yetzer Hara only has a Yetzer Tov (Kesser Shem Tov #21)

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Rabbi Yaakov Klein

A shiur exploring the Baal Shem Tov's parable on the true nature of the yetzer hara.

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good morning good morning to everybody unfortunately I apologize to anybody who's going to be listening to the recording we do not have video today because I left the SD card at home which was bound to happen at some point um but hopefully the audio will suffice have to be an aspect of still feeling like you're here we feel like you're here and it gives us special it's not just the people in the room it's hundreds of people around the world who are joining us all the time in all of our learning and we welcome them and we thank we have the privilege to learn with them um and that they're joining us okay so let's jump in we begin with a very very important teaching and the says he says there's a parable of a king who ruled bipa doesn't mean like with a couple right bipa he ruled with Force he was a Resolute ruler and and because it's going to be referencing Hashem we want to be careful it's not like a dictator so you know anything like that but but a king who had absolute dominion and control he sent one of his loyal servants a messenger that this person should should take on the role and the guise of a rebel somebody who is rebelling against the kingdom somebody who intended to to make a coup and to overthrow the the the

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  1. 0:00good morning good morning to everybody unfortunately I apologize to anybody who's going to be listening…
  2. 3:06Dominion of the king not only can't there possibly be something that's fundamentally rebelling against that…
  3. 6:11us it's all the same fellow is a dog is a c that the master which…
  4. 9:14maybe they could even back it up with some kind of say you know they can…
  5. 12:23senseless you know we're so numb we're so our brains don't function properly after and we…
  6. 15:33because without that you can't School the system and and everything will fall apart so authenticity…
  7. 18:41say something or do something that's going to be off-putting and who knows right and it'll…
  8. 21:44cha right there sin turns into a Mitzvah and the and the test fade away and…
  9. 24:51the you know 91 is it's the of you know all of it all of it…
  10. 28:01that's the that's called and that's what the name is right it's that which comes after…

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