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The secrets of Kabbalah behind the month of Cheshvan - Rabbi Alon Anava

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Rabbi Alon Anava

The secrets of Kabbalah behind the month of Cheshvan - Rabbi Alon Anava

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I know I start all the classes with the same saying it's a special month. All the months are special. But from Thank you so much. But from previous classes that we have now we're actually closing a cycle cuz if you remember the first class we had about the month was Kislev last year. So now we're actually closing a cycle and we have 12 classes one on each month, which of course we're not going to stop these classes. Next month we'll have another class about the month of Kislev with a different topic. But since we know that every month has a certain energy, we know every week has an energy. That's why our sages broke the Torah into parashot. The Torah is not written as parashot. The Torah is written with chapters, with parakim. And you'll see that in a parasha is different parakim, an actual chapter. So later on came the separation of the parashot. One of the many reasons is because we have every week a certain energy. And you know, we just read 3 weeks ago in parashat Bereishit that there was a river that came out of Eden. We're talking about four rivers, but as the the Torah says the Nahar Yotzei Mi Eden a river goes out of Eden L'hashkot Et HaGan to water the garden. Later on it's talking about the other four rivers that go out. Teachings of Hasidut explains that the river that is going out of Eden Eden comes from the word metikut, something that is sweet. Eden is a very high level in the

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