Why a Jew Will Never Be Content Without the Full Truth
What Does It Mean That Hashem Chose the Jew? And That the Jew Chose Hashem?
Chassidus: Maamer B'Yom Ashtei Asar 5731 #4
- April 11, 2022
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- 10 Nisan 5782
Rabbi YY Jacobson
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In honor of the 95th birthday of Rabbi David Raskin, of blessed memory, 12 Nissan 5782, sponsored by the Pearson Family
Class Summary:
In honor of the 120'th Birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi YY Jacobson will teach a Maamer said by the Rebbe on his Birthday, 11 Nissan 5731, April 6, 1971.
This class is #4 of a 4 part series, and was presented on Monday, 10 Nisan, 5782, April 11, 2022, streaming live from Rabbi Jacobson's home in Monsey, NY.
Chassidus: Maamer B'Yom Ashtei Asar 5731 #4
Rabbi YY Jacobson
- April 11, 2022
- |
- 10 Nisan 5782
- |
- 1291 views
In honor of the 95th birthday of Rabbi David Raskin, of blessed memory, 12 Nissan 5782, sponsored by the Pearson Family
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Sara Metzger -2 years ago
Turning gashmious into ruchnious? That's exactly what a shaliach does! He goes to a place with yidden, with gashmious in reality but with ruchnious only in potential. He turns the gashmious in the area into ruchnious!
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Sara Metzger -2 years ago
Hashem turned the ruchnious into our gashmious world. our job is to tp turn the gashmious of the world into ruchnious. i.e. reverse engineering!
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Sara Metzger -2 years ago
What was Hashem missing before He created the world? We know about "dira bitachtonum" but what does that mean? Perhaps He was missing that something outside Him (to a certain extent) with free choice would choose Him, crown Him, love Him, etc. i.e. He was lonely! So when we have as out purpose to serve Him, love Him, emulate Him, choose Him, we are fulfilling His original desire.
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Sara Metzger -2 years ago
BUT, not one of us chose Hashem. (except maybe a bt or a ger tzedek). Hashem CHOSE Avraham Avinu and then by derivation all his spiritual and physical descendants. We are simply born with a silver, nay, kosher. spoon in our mouths. We have yiddishkeit as an unearned gift. an inherentance.
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Sara Metzger -2 years ago
"If your soul comes from chitzonious Haratzon, then .. ; and if your soul comes from pernimious Haralson, then...." BUT we have no input or control where our neshoma comes from. Some are born with certain innate talents, drives, even character. Also the nature and degree of our neshoma. So what can a person do? It's like a game that's fixed before it started!
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Sara Metzger -2 years ago
Someone commented...
We are told by both the secular world and the Jewish world to maximize our potential to use the abilities and resources we are given to better ourselves as much as possible including giving tzedaka, helping others, etc. Very noble. But this too is egocentric. We are smug that we did so well with the wherewithal we were given to do good, to be generous, to help others, etc. The same is true with ruchnious gifts like a good mind so can be talmidei chachamim. BUT, that is a distraction. It is idolizing (as in avodah zora) the tools and resources we were given, even the most spiritual, for ourselves and our ego. ONLY when we devote ourselves our time, our energy, our resources to do that which HE wants for us to do, at all times and places, are we aligning with TRUTH and not with ourselves even at the most sublime levels.
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Sara Metzger -2 years ago
Someone asked...
is the Jewish soldier who throws himself onto another yid to save him from the exploding grenade and gives up his life for another, seeking his OWN Gan eden OR seeking TRUTH?
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Sara Metzger -2 years ago
I think in my humble opinion this soldier was seeking neither. He was one with the truth of HaShem and therefore made such a sacrifice for his fellow Jews. He lives in all those who survived from his sacrifice.
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