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How Tzaddikim Perform Miracles

Why Can’t Angels Start Singing Before Souls?

1 hr 15 min

Class Summary:

Preparing for Yud Shevat, world-renowned teacher Rabbi YY Jacobson, presented to the Monsey community part five of the incredible and revolutionary Maamar Basi Legani 5723 (1963), said by the Rebbe exactly 60 years ago, at the Yud Shevat Farbrengen.

The theme of the fifth class of the maamar is the teaching of the Maggid of the Mezritch that the angels can't begin singing before the souls begin singing. Because souls represent the "back-end program" of the universe, like the thoughts that constitute the source of words. The class explores the true definition of great Jewish leader, who show people the greatness lurking inside of them. We also discuss how souls can tune in to the thoughts and consciousness that is the core and engine of the universe.

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    Kj -1 year ago

    You bring up a very interesting concept very relevant to society today -- identifying as something different than I really am because I put on the German general's clothes! 

    Could it be that it is too painful for some folks to identify as what they really are because their parents cannot accept them for who that are, because I envy my brother, sister or friend and I want to be like them, because I have no role model and I found someone I admire who happens to be of the opposite sex and I want to emulate them, etc.

    What does the law of Gd say about desiring to change that which Gd created for His agenda....are we in rebellion by wanting to change to something other than what Gd desired for us, His creation?  Under the law of Gd, can we change or identify as something different, realizing the law was given to the Jews?

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    High level parents tell their kids that

    "Ze past nishr" = "it doesn't fit you", "it's beneath you", "you come from a higher source".

    No coincidence that the yiddish word "past" which means In, English means "The past tense" that the parent is saying remember your PAST, Where you come from, who you are, etc.

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    We think in a language...

    Then how do newborns think? No language yet.

    How do deaf people who have not yet mastered any language (think Helen Keller before she was trained) think?

    How do highly disabled people who are nonverbal think? We see that even without speech they do think as can be seen from their actions.

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Maamer Basi L'Gani 5723 #5

Rabbi YY Jacobson

  • January 29, 2023
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Dedicated by Shimshon and Rivky Vcherashansky in loving memory of Reb Zalman Yuda ben Reb Sholom Yeshaya Deitch

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