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  Anonymous -10 years ago

  kosher human being
  Blessed shabbat to you and yours rabbi.
  
  a very inspiring essay. one of the best i have read so far on kosher animals and relating it to the manner we should practise our torah studies. as you know i am a noahide too. and there are noahide site at breslov, and dr. schulman of chabad helps. at [email protected]. aish.com too has a wonderful outreach for noahides. and the rabbis answer all questions, though some may not be immediate.
  
  i always look forward to your beginning as it really lightens one up from the weights of everyday pressures to start the studies with a joyful frame of mind. thanks. blessings.

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  Reuven Frank -11 years ago

  Cows ARE Kosher, but...
  I once gave a shmooz (class for making points about character development).
  
  
  
  In it, I started off by saying, "You are Americans. You have the "Great American Dream." This dream is to be able to eat what you want, defecate where you want, and to 'couple' with whomsoever you want. This dream means you want to be as free as cows. Cows do ALL the above, and are Truly Free!
  
  Ah, but I have a different wish!
  
  I wish to  be a mentsch (a refined human being)!
  
  If you wish to be cows, go ahead Gezunta Heit (to your health)
  
  BUT
  
  you are wasting your time and mine in the Batei Midrashim (Learning Centers of Higher Tora Education).
  
  On the other hand,
  
  if you ALSO wish to be Mentschen,
  
                                                           PAY ATTENTION!

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  Ruth Fingerhut Tamkin -12 years ago

  Nigun
  Could you please provide the credit for the music that was selected to introduce and conclude this shiur? I did not see it listed and I was trying to find it, I am familiar with the nigun but wanted to find the recorded version that you played.
  
  Thank You,
  
  Ruth

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    Anonymous -12 years ago

    Re: Nigun
    This is from a series of recordings called "Nechoach," which stands for "Niggunei Chassedei Chabad."

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    amir -12 years ago

    Re: Nigun
    

    
    it is the "nichoach" series vol. 5. niggun ga'aguim (it's the 6th track in the record). i know since it's one of my favorites.
    
    it is a very popular niggun sung outside of chabbad as well, in many communities as a "follow-up" to the hymn "yedid nefesh" in friday eve service, but the "nichoach" version is very touching and authentic, containing the chabad KNEITCH, which is what makes it so beautyful.

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  leah marmulszteyn -12 years ago

  parsha matos/masei
  your shiur is very interesting, however; i remember it from last year. this was taped in 2009
  
  this weeks parshos are matos and masei. in fact most of this years classes are repeats from previous years and of course we do learn the same parshios every year but new material would be even better
  
  thanx

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  me -13 years ago

  questions
  This was a fascinating Shiur. Just a couple of questions which occurred to me duing the course of the shiur. One, How do the two instances of Mercha Kefula on the words "Tov" and "Ta'aseh apply to the theme of this Shiur?
  
  1.Perhaps because the spies craved to remain in the spiritual desert rather than descend to the mundane world of “vessels” and limitations. And the Jewish people wanted to get out of the bondage of Egypt, representing the constraints of the world (metzarim.) But this is only a speculation and it requires a source.
  
  2.The very experience of a mitzvah represents that there is a the commander and the one being commanded to, though they become linked. They wanted complete oneness , where there is no need for a commandment, just as you don’t have command yourself to do what you want to do.
  
  3.Yes the name of “sag” is rooted in Binah, and is associated with the world of Tohu, the reality of chaos. This is stated clearly in Kabbalah and in Chassidus.
  
  
  
  
  
  2. Nadav and Avihu were attempting to touch the divine, to kiss God so to speak and therefor shunned a life of stifling commandments. However, it is known that the word mitzvah comes from the word Tzavsa V'chibbur which is to cleave to or attach. As God fearing as they were they should have realized that?
  
  
  
  3. Novach is Gematria sixty corresponding to the sixty mighty men surrounding the bed of Shlomo Hamelech. This hints gto the fact that the number sixty is analogous to gevura. Novach including the Osios would be Gematria 63 would that correspond to the Shem Sag of Hashem as explained on Kabbala and Chassidus. We know that Chessed is Gematria 72 which applies to the verse in Tehillim Olam Chessed Yiboneh - perhaps Sag is the counterpart of Gevurah. I would appreciate your insight.
  
  

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