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Do You Know the Thought That Has Defined Your Life?

Why Does the Alter Rebbe Care if Creation Changed Hashem? Why Is G-d Judging Me on Rosh Hashanah?

1 hr 2 min

Class Summary:

This class was presented on Monday, Parshas Ki Seitzei, 9 Elul, 5782, September 5, 2022, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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    Kj -1 year ago

    Deja Vu!

    Deja Vu! On August 31, how many years ago, did princess Diana die.  Eight days later, years later, the queen dies, after a 70 year reign, in the 3rd quarter of the year!

    Times are similar, Russia at war, race battles, skyrocketing crime, beginnings of financial crisis, height of global warming concerns, a nation teetering on massive drought, crisis in the religious communities, and the beginnings of Gd's judgments on America!

    Fast forward to 2022, the picture is the same, only the punishments are now worldwide and unstoppable.

    Some times, an education can make you miss truth!

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    Kj -1 year ago

    And, Scripture says that when your enemies attack you on your land, Gd stands against you.

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    Kj -1 year ago

    And, for those who think nobody cares, the nations have been at war for decades, disasters are here, and a mega worldwide drought is here, sent directly from Gd as vengeance on your behalf.  Since folks didn't learn their lesson yet, 4-decades of world war has begun, coupled with 4-decades of mega drought.  Give it a few year and you will have all the respect you deserve!

    This is the true definition of global warming.  Folks will make up all kinds of new laws to combat global warming, yet they will not stop sinning!

    Nothing heals deep wounds like knowing Gd loves you enough to bring justice on your behalf when others would not!

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    Kj -1 year ago

    Oh, and consider this....they are so highly educated and know exactly what the victims should be now and if they are not, we will destroy them!

    Funny, they can't fix the abusers or themselves, but they can fix you!  Beware!

    And, they have a network of minions willing to help destroy you if you will not play. 

    Beware!  Trust Gd only and believe only what His word says about you.  The only friend you will ever have is Gd.  Use His power to protect yourself, nobody else will!

    Real healing is an intimate relationship with Gd that allows you to see through all of the lies, games, sin, corruption, etc!

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    Kj -1 year ago

    And, while you are contemplating what you have told yourself, consider what others told you!  You were not valuable enough to save and protect.  Others are more important to you.  The only reason we are doing anything now is because the judgment of Gd is here --- so, it is still all your fault.  My kids are more important than you and I cannot risk my own loss to protect or save you.  Gd will protect you, it is not my job.  You will destroy families, synagogues, homes, marriages, schools--do you want to be responsible for that.  If you talk, I'll be destroyed.  If you talk, a have a network that will destroy you!

    Remember, those who are doing the counseling today are the same folks who sold you out in the past and did nothing to help, even at the government and law enforcement levels!

    And, without you now, they may not have a job!

    Blindness takes a miracle to heal as well!

    Trust Gd only, and what He says about you,!

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    Kj -1 year ago

    And, please show me where Gd tells anyone to look back to heal or find freedom.  He told the children of Israel to put their foot ( collective) in the water, move forward, and don't look back!

    He said that to Lot and his wife...run and don't look back!

    Even repentance does not look back...it looks to transformation...the future!

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    Kj -1 year ago

    Please elaborate and prove!

    So, what you say is nice, but I see no evidence of your analysis in Scripture.  Can you provide an example -- Joseph, maybe?

    For the holy, their one thought is pleasing Gd and doing His will no matter the outcome!

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    Good morning.
    Wow.!!!!
    Flash flood has begun.
    I never understood it in that way.
    We should be Zocha to that type of judgment Wow.
    I have a lot of questions as I listen slowly I get my answers and sometimes it’s so hard to express like why did our experience have to go down that way?
    Or that’s exactly what needed to happen so we can go back and see touch & Feel and say wow wow!
    To be continued
    It blows my mind to keep up with this process.
    Thank you so much.

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    Nadav and Avihu, didn't ask Hashem to "see his face"

    Or "kiss Him". So they died prematurely. 

    But Moshe DID ask to see Hashem's face abd was denied.  He only died at the very end his alloted span of time and nit prematurely.  

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    Hashem created time. But one theorize that

    Hashem exists outside of time or inside time. 

    Outside of time then Hashem is and was the same before and after He created time. Time has no effect on He who created time.

    But, inside time (which He can choose to do, being infinetly capable), then He, too, was "traumatized" by what He experienced when Adam sinned, when the yidden sinned, etc. Like the moshel of a person being affected by a traumatic event of one's youth, Hashem was also "young" (i.e..inside time) once in the time continuing and all that ever occurred in time and world history, is affected by that traumatic event of Hashem's "youth". 

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    Did Hashem change or not?

    If, by change one means whether reality changed, then, yes, Hashem changed, not Himself chv"S, but He changed reality.  

    But....if by change one means from potential to actual, then there was no change because creation only went from potential to actual . 

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    Hashem created not only the "customer" but also

    The product, Torah, mitzvos and even the relationship with Him! 

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    It was said that marketers think only of

    What the customer wants. That's true in a simple world. But crafty marketers CREATE the desire in the potential customer that he needs the product. "You deserve....." my product! 

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    It was said that sometimes all your life is based

    On one singular event from one's youth.

    But.....that event might well have happened, e.g. the child feels that he doesn't deserve to be loved. 

    But ...surely that child had many other events that were different, even opposite to that singular event? Why was that singular event dafka the one event that colored the rest of life?.

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    Rosh Hashana is also unique in that

    It is the only month nit blessed by yidden the Shabbos before, but blessed by Hashem Himself! 

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    Sara -1 year ago

    I may have misunderstood...

    but I thought you said in a previous shiur that the Jewish calendar was yes, based on the lunar cycle, but was also affected or influenced by the solar cycle as well???

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    • Anonymous -1 year ago

      The Jewish calendar is a combination of both lunar and solar.  The secular calendar is purely solar. The Muslim calendar is purely lunar. Only the Jewish calendar is a combination of solar and lunar. Hence, leap months and a slight swing of the holidays back and forth in the solar calendar 

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        Sara -1 year ago

        Thanks. Yes, that is what I thought. 

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