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When I am Here, I Need Not Want To Be There

"I Don't To Be at Every Marketplace," the Alter Rebbe Said to the Barditchover Tzaddik

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This class was streamed live from Rabbi Jacobson's house in Monsey, NY on Friday, Parshas Vayakhel-Pekudei, 24 Adar, 5780, March 20, 2020

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Aharon -4 years ago
20 yr old = self conscious

40 yr old –don’t care what others think

60 yrold – realize no one was looking & no one cared

Neshama

Ruach -

Nefesh - hodu til baruch she’amar

Chaya Yechida – ohr makif – higher more transcendant overwhelming energy of the soul which is not manifested in the body

Seder hadracha in life

1545   “don’t grab angels”   chizon external person vs. penimi – wherever he is he is there completely

step by step    Got to be 2 yrs old to get to 20 yrs ole etc.

18:00 Alter Rebbe:   insert “v’shamru b’nai Yisrael” followed by kaddish

      VG – doesn’t like this insertion cuz supposed to go straight fr geulah to shem esre.   Haskivenu like tefila aricah cuz anshei knesses inserted it

BHT also took out of tefilla - yet is in the siddur he wrote nusach   sefard and Arizal mostly – used 60 texts/sources     perfect acc’g to Hebrew grammar and kabbalah - Minhag to say v’shamru have what to rely on.

Levi Yitzhak married g-son to g-daughter of BHT – saint and loved Jew people, married g- children to each other – 1807   parsha Nasso , big chasana – Shlobena chassana, spent several days together - LY: “when yiden say v’shamru it’s like a tremendous marketplace in heaven” tht’s where the action is.     BHT responded: “I don’t have to be at every marketplace.”     I have to be real where I am and then I can go to the next step.

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Nefesh - “hodu til baruch she’amar – neztach hod yesod – associated w/lower part of body    left right thigh and yesod = bris

28:00 explains long text

Nezach – branch of chesed – 2 levels    1. Maintain/endurance/victory    After passionate davening commitment that rest of day will be guided by experience of Davening even though not nec’ly in tune w/my deepest values and feelings – make commitments even when not in the mood – passion carries me thru – I amake a heskem (agreement) to caryy on later

L & R & ctr columns of sefiros             netzach under chesed cuz it’s a branch of chesed –

34:00 Hod -   ability to acknowledge truth and surrender to truth, don’t remain stuck      even if don’t understand pratim must review     may even be unemotional

Two types of hoda   1. I know the truth yet don’t know details

          Ex   if open, one can modeh more things – might now even know why or how or what but know it’s true, maybe don’t even know that it’s this way Yet know there’s truth there

40:00 last step before turning to nachash is moideem –

Need nezach & hod to live a wholesome life – being in touch w/who you really are – being in touch w/H”

Modeh – submitting, giving in, agreeing

at least know that truth is not inside me   -   hod in a person’s life

42:30 How does know what “yarid” to attend?   What yarid “marketplace” should one go to? One wants to be in a yarid that resonates w/you. Where you can reach your full potential.   Embraces you. Brings out your best w/o compromises. Be brutally honest and open w/yourself. Put your 100% into it, a place of truth.     passion            Where you can trust the vendors and the clients – respects where you are and yet helps you challenge yoursefl to go to the next step – don’t have to ‘amputate’ any part of yourself emotionally psychologically or intellectually ie can be yourself.   Where your soul can be on fire.

I don’t have to go to every yarid – smorgasborg don’t need to take everything, like to see it. Can embrace that. That is liberating and emancipating. If I need to knosh everywhere, I can’t be anywhere – I’m at every yarid but can’t be anywhere.
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Rachel -4 years ago

Yes, I don’t have to be at every yerid...

I often feel that I’m losing out when I don’t participate in every yerid. I feel a sense of loss and missed opportunity.

Often I’m looking for a yerid to ignite me with feelings of existence, passion and inspiration.
And, or to give me a sense of belonging and connection.
And then sometimes it just turns into a habit (from the Nefesh habahamous). But it ends up being a distraction from connecting to the truth of the Nefesh Elokus.
Taking the time to be in the internal “yerid” is the real challenge. It’s in the meditation and silence of the inner self that I find real connection. Connection to my daas. That inner knowing that is beyond mind that knows the truth of my soul. Deep down when I connect to my truth I can know which yerid to pursue. The one that will align my Nefesh habahamos with my Nefesh Elokus.

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Aharon -4 years ago
Gut Shabbos
Thank you for your very good words
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Aharon -4 years ago
Henry David Thoreau
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Aharon -4 years ago
Rebbe mentioned earlier or last night - if one is truly looking for truth H' will help guide the person
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