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The Ink Left In the Quill
Every Jewish Soul Is Rooted in Torah. How About the Alienated Jew? He Too Is Rooted in Torah, Not In the Ink, But In the Parchment. A Journey Into the Essence of Jewish Consciousness
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The Ink Left In The Quill
the ink in the pen
Way of transformation energy into joy
Just because Purim is over doesn’t mean that we have to quit joy. The whole Adar is a month of Simcha, right? I know, most of you would hardly resist from temptation of celebration it in a new way unless had been stopped with inertia… Let’s take another shot. This time I envite you to choose one question or exercise you like from the curriculam and give a small burst… And remember: it’s not about “to be or not to be”, rather a simple reflection based on energy you abundantly receive from this particular class with Rabbi Yossi. Energy cannot be locked in a box, it needs to be transformed! Last earthquakes might tell you stories of its secret…
Hope to hear from you soon.
greise yishar koah for the great work of the hole staff
Todah
Todah Ravah for wonderful story of the Rebbe
Thank you
m.
a question concerning dancing with the Torah
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Is it possible to get an answer to my question?
To Caryn
This is similar to the Aleyah issue. While the man experiences his aleyah, elevation, via going up to the Torah, the women can teach us how to experience an aleyah in our very being and essence. Each gender has a special power which we must impart to each other.
More Depth on the Topic
The PY vort is based on the Radvaz Kabbalah sefer Magen David in Os Nun which is the source for a Friediger Rebbe mamar also.
See the same thing you said in Reb Tzadok Likutei Mamarim 100c, and a bit different in LiKutei MOharan 38:6.
See DME - Degel Machne Ephraim - Sissa which also relates the struggle as internally with the Moshe painting portrait "midrash" which you must have heard about from the Tiferes Yisroel that I have another whole file on.
There is plenty in the Shelah - as the Ohr HaTorah quotes some. The bottom line being that this point you make is also reciprocal as Moshe is affected by the people and this impedes on his ability to achieve the shar NUN (famous Baal Shem Tov story about him davening and everyone leaving for a break etc) as well as more controversally that the whole struggle is also within.
On Reflection...
Let me remind you that we are still in a game. Not that was before with “CARDS FACE UP!” but smaller one: “Take a shot” or “One card at a time.” It is from” Questions and Exercises”, from the curriculum, right below the video.
My small journal is to question # 4 about Chassidic explanation for the ink left in the quill and how this ink brings healing to a broken people:
What can teach us a lesson: a boring descriptions and presentation of full set of virtues a person has, or adventure with sweetness and bitterness of somebody’s feats,sins and mistakes…?
So, what do you prefer: a good story about a bad guy or a bad story about a good guy?
With holding back mentioning of his name and virtues, Moses saved ink for numerous stories that later had to be written and that we would be able to read and learn from. He saved space between letters for us, so we would be able to immerse fully in endless pool of unknown and than have a chance to shape those letters that we supposed to represent…
Six hundreds thousands letters of Torah represent Benei Yisrael, all of us, right? There are thirteen attributes of G-s mercy in them, aren’t there? But Moses gives us his own gift: a tear of ink from his quill and freeDom- white parchment, to write script of our own… in order that we embrace it in A DANCE OF OUR LIFE...
parasha without moshe name
but there is different because moshe is talking, anyway is not precise to say that there was NO parasha without his name.
yashar koah for the great work of this shiurim
paracha ki sisa
dancing with the Torah
historical note: Michelangelo
There is a very interesting book on Michelangelos art that reveals many of his "digs" at the vatican and in favor of the Jews.
To A Florentine
Would you give us some references?...as Rabbi Yossi used to teach us with such...we are still in Torah Class.
Thanks a lot and have a Good Shabbat!
to Florentine
To our new Guest from Florence
I have few minutes before Shabbat to tell you that when I asked about references I didn’t mean to be mean. You sound very knowledgeable and I’m sure you will keep on enlightening us in undiscovered field more. So framing is very crucial in this, like a sterile field before serious med procedure.
You might didn’t realize but Rabbi Jacobson with all his arguments for and against always has his ‘sterile gloves on.’
Have a Good week !(if you like this cheering better.)
Take it easy
Come back, please, come back: we miss you.
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na
A powerful broadcast, also the second time, but we look forward to new torah from Rabbi Jacobson. When will this be?
ADMIN
We hope to have new classes from Rabbi YY Jacobson soon.
Horns or not?
According to Giorgio Vasari in his Life of Michelangelo, the Jews of Rome came like "flocks of starlings" to admire the statue every Shabat.
Very smart...
but the torahs were writen latter?
didnt get the awnser to this one
To Chai
In addition, according to the class, we may understand this midrash as a metaphor, the ink remaining in his quill would symbolize the parchment around the ink, not that he actually withheld himself from writing certain letters. This then would work even according to the second opinion in Talmud Gitin ibid, the view of Reish Lakish, that the Torah was only transcribed at the end of the 40 years in the desert.
I hope this answers your question, Chai. If not, please ask further and I will try to explain.
Michelangelo's Knowledge
makif-hakafos
In explaining the reason for simchas torah in Tishrei and not on Shavuos you mentioned the concept of makif and how the hakafos relate to that concept. Do they also relate to the makif that is the Succah and there fore explain hakafos just after Succos? Thanx for all of the wonderful shiurim.
Answer to Moshe
Chassidus also explains that the makif of Sukkah, the sechach, is spiritually generated by the awesome hovering cloud of ketores generated on Yom Kippur by the Kohen Gadol burning the incenses.
Also, on Sukkos in the Beis Hamikdsh they would also be "makif," surround the altar each day with an aravah. We, today, do “haksfos” around the bimah which we call “hoshanos.”
So, in summation, we are dealing with a period of “makif,” celebrating the power and depth of teshuvah.
Another class on Ki Sisa by Rabbi Jacobson
Here is another video class. It is apparently from the year of Ki Sisa 2008, or 5768. it is about the haftorah, the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal and the two bulls.