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Don’t Surrender to a Mediocre Interpretation of Yourself

The Genesis of All Trauma

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This class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Behar, 16 Iyar, 5782, May 17, 2022, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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    Rifki Braun -1 year ago

    Thank you rebbe!! 

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    Sarah Goldberg -1 year ago

    Dissonance began when Hashem took for Himself names

    Which are something less than essence. The problems began when names came from essence.

    But without names for Hashem's attributes, without names fir the levels of worlds,  without names fir individual creations, etc none of this would exist! 

    Better existence as a result of a name although it's dissonance from essence than no existence at all. 

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    Sarah Goldberg -1 year ago

    What's essence on one level is a mere name, emanating on another level

    And the Baal Shem Tov said this is true also for questions and answers.

    This mirrors the "seder histalchilus" the creation of worlds by a chaining down of worlds.  We see this in sefiros. We see this how excretion at one level is food for another level. 

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    Sarah Goldberg -1 year ago

    Life is full of ups and downs

    And we say every churban, every down, obstacle, 😞,  etc is only a path to a later elevation. 

    Is it then not true that conversely that every rise, every aliyah,  etc is also a precursor to a later yerida?

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    Sara -1 year ago

    The Hebrew

    word for soul is neshamah. Central to that word, the middle two letters, shin and mem, make the word shem, Hebrew for ‘name.’ Your name is the key to your soul.

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    Sarah Goldberg -1 year ago

    A name reveals the eseence

    And so our parents had a minor prophecy to give us our names which encapsulate our essence.  We use that name to communicate ourselves on high as in a mishebereach, on a mitzayva, an Aliya, etc.

    But....Hashem has many names. Does each reveal an essence? Can He or any of us have more than one essence? 

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      Sara -1 year ago

      HE is infinite and can't really be given descriptions, but maybe each of his names is a different way in which we experience HIS presence

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Chassidus: Likkutei Torah Behar Es Shabsosai #5

Rabbi YY Jacobson

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