Broken Tablets, Broken Souls

Thanks

So clear abd beautiful. Lovely! Thanks.

Tonight's Lecture

Thank you for the important insights.

Regards from Brazil

It was a real pleasure to watch you again! We´ll never forget your wonderfull lectures in Brazil!!

great

Phenomenal presentation - the shattered tablets have a story to tell a holy of holies part of your life not just a nuisance but an integral part of your holy of holies- very well taught and presented - compassionate, encouraging, clear, learned terrific!
I sat with a 26 year old woman who just found out that she has leukemia- I will share this with her tomorrow.

Raish Lakish

I see the 'second' Raish Lakish re Teshuva; didn't you mention a previous statement by him? I don't see it in the curriculum. Could you write it for me and the source. I want to pass this on to my husband. Thank you.

Tremendous insights of The Rebbe. Wish I could have heard his entire explanation. Surely it is very very profound. Thank you.

To Neshama

See source #3.

I thought it was a reference to Raish Lakish something to the effect that 'does a sinner receive ... for sinning while someone who is good doesn't get anything for behaving....
Who said this?

Rabbi Yosef makes many fascinating correlations for the first, broken, set of Tablets versus second set of Tablets. Here is a thesis: non-observant Jews versus observant Jews may correlatively be identified as two set of Tablets. Does it sound too heretic and completely inappropriate? What Sages could say about such kind of rough approximation and correlation? Analytically we might find an interesting clue for dynamic of their relationship through that wild guess.
Thanks.
Martin

To Neshamah

That expression is found many times in the Talmud, it is not from Reish Lakish.

JUST LOOKS INCOMPLETE !!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU , MAKE SENSE WE ARE ALL SLAVES SAT UP TO SERVE HIM ACCEPT IT AND LOVE IT

mp4

Could you provide the class in mp4 for download, so we can watch in our ipods. thanks

Maharsha

It is interesting that the Maharsha should ask on the Gemara, Zedonos Nassis lo K'zachiyos, "Lo Yehei Chotei Niskar" Accoding to the Rambam someone who does a sincere Teshuva should change his or her name to symbolize that they are no longer the one who sinned. According to this Rambam the Maharsha's question does not start because its not the sinner who is being rewarded - its a totally unrelated BAAL teshuva.

To Yochanan

You are wrong in my opinion. The Maharsha also knew the Rambam. But the fact remains that as a result of his sins -- and doing teshuvah and becoming a new person -- he is getting more mitzvos than the tzaddik can ever hope to get, since the tzadik does not have all these sins being transformed into mitzvos. Hence the question of the Maharsha still stands.
The chedush of the Rabbi's explanation is that it is not that the sinner is being rewarded with an extra "treat," but rather his work of teshuvah includes a new avodah and component which the tzaduk does not do - to transform darkness into light, now after he did teshuvah, and this creates an entirely new dunamick and energy.

Yitzchak

I am not arguing with the premise of the shiur. I enjoyed this shiur as I do all of them. I thought the Maharsha's question was interesting as a result of the Rambam who says that a baal teshuva is a completely new beriah who should rightfully change his or her identity as a result. The Rambam was a Rishon and while some of his writing may have been done in a poetic manner - he was not a poet. If the Rambam is suggesting that a Baal Teshuva change his or her identity he means that there is no relation between the guy who sinned and the one who repented. Teshuva is the ability to begin anew. In fact our sages say that even Tzaddikim when Moshiach comes will repent.

In summation, Im not arguing on the premise of the shiur and while the Maharsha new the Rambam I feel that the words of the Rambam in regards to a Baal Teshuva suggest otherwise because the one who did teshuva is not the one who sinned.

What a Shiur

This is why I can not miss the class.
Shalom