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Yechida — Where All Our Struggles Converge Into Oneness

At the Core of the Soul, There Is No Opposition

1 hr 48 min

Class Summary:

This is the seventh of a series of text-based classes on a maamar, Chassidic discourse, by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, "Reishs Goyim Amalek," presented at the Farbrengen of Tuesday, 14 Adar, Purim 5715, March 8, 1955.

This class was presented on Friday, Parshas Ki Sisa, 21 Adar I, 5784, March 1, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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  • Anonymous -2 months ago

    The Path of Knowledge and the Path of Truth

    The path of knowledge and the path of truth both lead to the same destination. The former is a never ending road which twists and turns. Has stops at struggles and disappointments. Peaks and valleys. Sunshine and darkness. Going on and on forever.  And just when you think you’ve reached the end of the road- you find out that there is more. The path of truth finds you at the destination which no road leads to. And to search for the road which brought you there contradicts truth. Truth just is. Something inherently known. It’s a beautiful reality which we can just lean into and embrace whole heartedly. Do you seek for proofs that your parents are your parents? Can you begin to rationalize the immediate connection which goes online as soon as the person known as Mom or Dad steps into the room? This is just the truth. Every person should be blessed to wholeheartedly embrace those inherent truths which exist in the world and in our lives. And to also fearlessly, passionately, and with full dedication travel down the path of knowledge. And to know in life which moments require which.

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    Had -2 months ago

    The noise of the "big bang"

    We know that when a vacuum is created a noise occurs. Like when a plane breaks the sound barrier. 

    When Hashem effectuate the Tzimtzum to make a "space" for creation, a great big noise resulted.  

    Abd that's the big bang. 

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    Had -2 months ago

    Ok. The 'litvacks' before the Besht said

    We are doing battle, destroy with the yetzer Hora.Hiskafia. 

    The Besht altered that and said we must only 'educate' the animal soul.Hischapcha.

    But, the latter approach ignores that aspect of the yetzer Hora/animal soul that is the temptress hired by the King to test and challenge the subjects. Ironically the harder the temptress tries to beat the person,  the better a job they are doing. 

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      Ariel Margulies -2 months ago

      The Alter Rebbe brings this mashal in Tanya chapter 9.

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    Had -2 months ago

    "All 'chidushim' must fit within the Torah

    So, if something is not within previous Torahs, it is "beyond the pale" and unacceptable. We are simply peeling away layers of the onion

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Maamar Reishis Goyim Purim 5715 #7

Rabbi YY Jacobson

  • March 1, 2024
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  • 21 Adar I 5784
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In honor of Fried family members' birthdays: Shmuel ben Yitzchak HaKohain, turning 60, and his grandson Avraham Moshe ben Yaakov HaKohain turning 18 years old. Dedicated by Eliot Kaplan.

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