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The Journey From a Possible Existence to an Intrinsic Existence

When You Hear the Word “Bitul”, Do You Come to Life or Do You Shut Down?

1 hr 17 min

Class Summary:

This class was presented on Thursday, Parshas Vayakhel-Pekudei, 23 Adar, 5783, March 16, 2023, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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    Hershel -1 year ago

    Question for Rabbi YY

    Why does ואתה מחייה את כולם have to refer to the Mmalay? Certainly the Sovev is giving light/energy equally to everything. In other words, why does Ata mechyei es culom have to refer to hislabshus? And why can't refer to also the sovev

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      YY Jacobson -1 year ago

      Because in this pasuk we see a distinction of worlds and levels: you created the heavens, the heavens above the heavens, the earth, the seas, etc. -- all this diversity and gradations of consciousness is a "product" of memale. 
      In sovev there is oneness -- higher and lower are all part of oneness as we will explain further. 

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    Doba Shaver -1 year ago

    Question for Rabbi YY

    Why don't we say Perek Shira more often?

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    Sara -1 year ago

    Do you know anyone

    who has gotten rid of his/her egoistical self?

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    Does everything that's here have to be here?

    No. The world was created for the Torah and the yidden. Therefore the Torah and yidden HAVE TO BE HERE

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      Sara -1 year ago

      If a person goes along with the belief/concept/philosophical perspective that each of us was created for a specific purpose that only we can do and that our creation was vital to the existence of it all, then I say everything here has to be here.

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    "Ayin" means you become a conduit for

    Infinity.

    Just like Avraham Avinu was a chariot for Hashem. 

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    Every creature has a purpose a mission

    In this world.  Each person is therefore indispensable and unique to the tapestry of creation.  

    Query: How was Hitler ym"S indispensable? 

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    Hashem is "Ayin" i.e. No-thing

    Us humans are created beings. We are "things" albeit the only things with a soul, with free choice. But, as things we have that in common with stars, the sun and moon, angels, animals, vegetation and the inanimate.  

    We are TRAPPED as creating things and cannot perceive what it means to be NOT A THING. We are like creatures on a 2-d surface imagining what a 3-d creature us all about.

     Except we are 3-d creatures trying to imagine a 4-d ("not a thing") creature.  

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    The Ohr Ein Sof filters down into a

    Multitude of Kelis.

    To expand the moshel of electricity: Electricity has its source and is transmitted into a multitude of Kelis. The electricity in a toaster is quantitatively different than the electricity in a Tesla!

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Chassidus: Torah Ohr Vayakhel/Pesach Kechu Me'Itchem #2

Rabbi YY Jacobson

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Dedicated by Liz and Michael Muschel in loving memory of her mother, Mrs. Shirley Levy a"h, Sorah Pessel bas R' Aryeh Leib, for the 4th yartzeit, 22 Adar.

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