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How Do You Know If You Understand Chassidus?

When World Institutions Crumble, It's Time to Open Yourself to the New Light

1 hr 32 min

Class Summary:

This text-based class, the fourth and last class in the Maamar Vayedaber in Torah Or Vaeira, was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, Parshas Vaera, Rosh Chodesh Shevat, 5781, January 14, 2021, live from Rabbi Jacobson's home in Monsey, NY.

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    Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago

    The Schechina spoke through Moshe

    And through Yosef Caro.

    And through chazal when they determined the final decision in the gemora by majority. "It is no longer in shomayim". And when beis din established rosh chodesh.  

     Abd today through the decision of a beis din even though it isn't popular.  

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    Sara -3 years ago

    Unconditional Love

    ro receive and to give happens when both want it.

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    Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago

    This is the longest darkest golus and so the geula will be

    The longest brightest geula, the last and ultimate geula. Now! 

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      Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago

      For a small little partial renovation one need only do a little demolition. Like just the kitchen. But, for a total house renovation one must demolish the whole house 

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    Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago

    After Har Sinai there was a hatred to idolatry

    But....idolatry was one the 7 Noahide laws long before Har Sinai? 

    Hashem's seemingly nonanswer to Moshe why it became worse after Moshe began the redemption,  was basically to show that there will now be a deeper essence to essence relationship between Hashem and the yidden. Perhaps after that seeming suffering, pain and trauma,  like the increased burden of no straw, will be seen as goodness and love covered up with a superficial shell of seeming bad. 

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    Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago

    "Motti v'lo motti"

    Motti must be rooted in infinity and approaches but then withdraws. 

    Infinity can approach but cannot remain with us, otherwise it's not infinity in a finite creation.  We can only have a hint of it, like a dream. 

    By definition infinity cannot be packaged up in a finite container,  in a finite mind, in a finite vort. 

    The more real and life like the dream the better we remember it later and can integrate.  

    Before renovation we must demolish. Like the sage who had to forget one Talmud before learning the  other.  

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    Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago

    Elokim as imminent, Havaye as transcendent?

    Hashem started as an absolute unity,  then diversified abd differentiated.  Perhaps our jib is to unify the differentiated aspects of creation and bring it all back to its source.  All her vsrious descendsnts came together at the levsye of your grandmother. 

    "The world is built from love". To love is to give. One can't give without a recipient. He wanted to love and give. Therefore He first had to create recipients in order that someone receive the live He wanted to give. 

    Hashem gives the tzaddik (and others) tge ability to love,  i.e. to imitate Hashem 

    "Are you able to receive unconditional love?" Even if one is so capable,  first the  the other must give such unconditional love.  

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Chassidus: Torah Ohr Va'era Vayidaber #4

Rabbi YY Jacobson

  • January 14, 2021
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