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  Benveniste,Tsfat -12 years ago

  Small point Rv.Paltiel and Jacobson.
  We live and we learn...Please?
  
  

  
  

  
  trans·late

  
     [trans-leyt, tranz-, trans-leyt, tranz-]  verb, -lat·ed, -lat·ing.
  
  (Not trans-a-late)
  
   

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  Benveniste,Tsfat -12 years ago

  (Kayo)I do not know what meritorious
  Bs'd
  
  Perhaps it is your exceptional 'kavana' in the performance of a particular mitzvah.

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  Kayo, Tokyo -13 years ago

  Echad through avoda
  Baruch HaShem
  
  Is it correct to understand the 1st level as:
  Shama Yisrael - Listen Yid
  HaShem Elokeinu - If you study Torah and do mitzvot, you become Mekava for Hashem and your power is beyond control
  HaShem Echad - You are One with G-d

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  Kayo, Tokyo -13 years ago

  Yiddish Kait is G-d
  Baruch HaShem
  
  I do not know what meritorious He found in me that I can learn the Alter Rebbe's Maamar.

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  YYJ -13 years ago

  To Yosef
  Rabbi Paltiel meant "only" relative to the level of a tzadik. Of course to be a banuni is very difficult and a life-long challenge, but it is still far lower than the level of a tzaddik. Hence the use of the word "only."

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  yosef -13 years ago

  Only
  Thanks for the answer. But I am not clear when Rabbi P said
  That "R Homiler was "only a banuni" Only seems to say that it was no big deal to be a banuni.Thank you

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  YY Jacobson -13 years ago

  Answer To Yosef
  In the book of Tanya, the author explains at length that a "banuni" does not violate the Divine will in action, words and active thoughts, but still struggles inside with negativity, evil, and doubt. The Tzadik, on the other hand, transformed himself internally as well. See Tanya chapters 10-14, 27, and 29.
  
  This Chassid, Reb Issac Homiler, was a "banuni," not a "tzaddik." Hence the Alter Rebbe invited him to join him in the mikvah.

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  yosef -13 years ago

  Question
  As always,your sheer was suberb and I really loved it. However you say that the Chassid was "only a Benoni" What does only mean?

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  Anonymous -13 years ago

  Another one blown right out of the park by rabbi paltiel. Keep it up.

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