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  Shlomo Goldberg -6 years ago

  Brilliant shiur. Just wondering how the pshat of the son of Rav Chaim Vital and that of the Baal haTanya fit in with Chazal who call the meraglim rashayim? Mistaken maybe, even sinners as the title of the shiur suggests. But rashayim?

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  טל קפלן -6 years ago

  עוד שיעור נהדר של הרב גיקובסון
  בנוי לתלפיות
  עשיר
  מעורר אמוציות כרגיל...
  וכמובן מעניין!

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  yyyyy -8 years ago

  source sheet?

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  source sheet? -8 years ago

  source sheet?

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  Eliyahu Bari -10 years ago

  video disappeared
  The video/audio and curriculum dissappeared from this page, please restore it!!!

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    Anonymous -10 years ago

    Re: video disappeared
    All is restored.

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  Rina -11 years ago

  curriculum
  Great class!
  
  How can I get a curriculum?

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  R M -13 years ago

  Its not about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning how to dance in the rain. That article was phenomenal!

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  ycm -13 years ago

  broken
  
  "Ring the bells that still can ring
  Forget your perfect offering
  There is a crack in everything
  That's how the light gets in"
  
  Leonard Cohen

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  stronger in the broken places -13 years ago

  the breaking of the tablets
  Moses followed his heart, as stated, and he was a holy man. Now he knew that by following his heart, as he was privy to the deepest secrets as God communicated to him, that this was what he was supposed to do. Yes, surely we can read this story on many levels, and this is God's intent. Even there is a joke: that Moses was the first to break the commandments. Now I know God also has a sense of humor, call it the comic within the cosmic.
  
  This is very much an act that is about Tikkun Olam, the gathering of the sparks, from the one, many parts. One soul, diversity in many souls. What we are doing is communicating with each other, and deeply, the paradox is that it is divinity communicating with divinity. I KNOW this, but it is hard to explicate and I wonder if people get this. We are all of us filtering the light according to God's plan.
  
  Any potter knows that when we fix a broken piece of pottery, sometimes, it's stronger in the broken parts. People who pass through the fire, who suffer, often gain get strengths and insights in passing through.
  
  There are deep metaphoric connects running up and down all of our lives. They all, do, hold water.
  
  And vessels, or pieces of pottery, as in vases, are metaphoric in mystic Judaism for all of us. We give, we receive, we dry up, we pitch as in ideas. What is a pitcher but a vessel for pouring? Also a person who lets fly, the ball. Sometimes we catch, and other times we are not quite on the ball!
  
  There is something so beautiful wherever I look and it is a One ness that is surpassingly beautiful.
  
  Awe Moses,. your name rhymes in English, with "roses". And roses, are "read".

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  david wolf, dpm -13 years ago

  Eikev/ Broken
  Yahsha Koach,
  
  Gut Shabbos,
  
  David Wolf,Houston

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  joe -13 years ago

  healing
  so healing, thanks

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  isaac -13 years ago

  to Shlomo Bekhor
  i heard that shuir in 2008. but here we have the entire second half, completely new, about ehat their mistake was. how there are two types of love, etc. well worth it.

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  shlomo bekhor milan italy -13 years ago

  GREAT SHIUR BUT DEJA VU IN 2008 ON COL
  pls rabbi YY try not to repeat shiurim this is important.
  thanks a lot

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  Yosef -13 years ago

  Linking classes
  I think we have to connect it with the theme of the class presented here last week Behaaloscha: power dies, influence does not die. Yehousha thought Moshe can die, as per the words of Eldad and Meidad; the truth is that Mosehe does not die, because since his ultimate desire is that all the people become prophets, it is not about himself but about his empowerment of them, hence, he does not die as long as the influence remains.
  
  A Rebbe may build empires of power, but they are there only for influence. Hence, even when he physically dies, his true reality remains.
  
  moshe would not enter into the Land, but he also never really dies. till today we have Moshe with us. every day. every hour. the spies saw only one dimension, not the other.
  

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  AJF ESQ -13 years ago

  TO YG
  Yehoshua and Colev were the true shluchim of Moshe Rabbeinu. The inferences should be properly drawn concerning being a true Chossid.

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  Elki -13 years ago

  Thank you
  I've learned and more importantly taught the Story of the Spies many time, always going through new commentators. You, however, Rabbi Jacobson, wove a new story, a fascinating, poetic one.
  How difficult it is to love someone, on the terms of the beloved and not the terms of the lover. I understand, in my limited way, how the meraglim felt. There's a stubborness in wanting things my way, even if the one I love would like something different. And what a lesson in worshipping G-d. That too has to be on His terms, not the conditions I like, and they often conflict.
  As always, thank you to David and Eda Schottenstein for your generosity in promulgating these shiurim.

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  ישראל -13 years ago

  ישר כוח על השיעור הנפלא.
  לציין שהמפרשים כמו תוס' סנהדרין י"ז ע"א מסבירים ש"הטל עליהם צרכי ציבור והם כלים" פירושו שהם יכלו מלומר נבואה כי אין השכינה שורה לא מתוך עצבות..
  שוב תודה על השיעור פשוט להתמוגג כל שבוע מרעיונות מקוריים וחדשים

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  Kayo Kaneko -13 years ago

  One thing I do not understand
  Baruch HaShem,
  
  Very beautiful shiur. However your example of Rabbi Yehuda the Prince's case can be taken as the justification of beauty killing.

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  shira -13 years ago

  response to yochanan
  I'm about to listen to the shiur, so maybe this was covered, but my understanding from when I learned this in school was that although Moshe "sent" them, the real shlichim WERE bnei yisrael. they were the ones who really wanted the mission in the first place. and in this case, the meraglim indeed were unified with their masters, the bnei yisrael.

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  Yakov -13 years ago

  Wonderfull
  Thank you rabbi!

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  Devorah Leah W. -13 years ago

  inspiring!
  I had a class of ten ladies at my house this evening and we enjoyed this shiur immensely! Thank You! We pan to gather more women and tune in more often!

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  Fred -13 years ago

  Difference
  The difference between the meraglim and Yehoshua and Caleb is that of between the Yechiniks and the other Jews.

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  issac -13 years ago

  to YG
  A shliach is capable of being "kemoso," one with the one who sends him. But for that he must choose to remain a shliach, a messenger of him. the spies however changed the goal of their "shlechus," of their mission. Moses sent them to find out the best way to enter the land, they decided their mission was to find out if they can enter the land. at that m,oment they ceased to be shluchim.

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  Yochanan Gordon -13 years ago

  Question
  Amazing Shiur, Yasher Koach. However, there seems to be an inconsistency, at least from the way I understand the matter at hand. The Spies were messengers, we established that a messenger unlike a local employee is unified with his master whereas the local employee is working solely for their pay that comes at the end of a days or weeks work. Therefore it would seem that the spies should have conformed with the will of Moshe when in fact their conduct was the opposite?

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  mendel -13 years ago

  class
  it was magnificeint

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  nechamasara -13 years ago

  The Rebbe
  The parallels to 'Rebbe', 'Moshe' and "The Rebbe" was superb.

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  joe -13 years ago

  beautiful
  An amazing class. what a reason that is for the spies betraying G-d. thanks.

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  Nechamasara -13 years ago

  saying goodbye
  This was most enjoyable. I had never heard this perspective before. Thank you.

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    Graceland -12 years ago

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    Wow! That's a really neat ansewr!

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