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  Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

  We may not plant a seed on Shabbos

  Yet we do plant the ultimate seed of life on Shabbos?

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

  We are commsnded to eat matza on pesach

  Ebu can't we fulfill this mitzvah by eating plain guarded flour and drinking water? This is the selfsame flour that could be used to make matza. It's kosher l'pesach. 

  What's the difference if it's baked? Water is added and the same water escapes as steam when it's baked.

  Perhaps the addition of water to the flour, by starting the fermentation process with the chometz clock ticking fast, makes a qualitative change in the flour even after the water escapes as steam? 

  The potential chometz   process is similar to the yetzer Hora is fused with the pure neshoma  

  The combination of pure neshoma and early body makes sin/chometz possible like the combination of flour and water. Flour by itself is like the body without the neshoma  and water by itself is like the neshoma by itself.

  Only when body and  soul and flour and water are combined is sin/chometz possible.

  Our job? To ARREST the potential fermentation process in its tracks. To stop the fermentation process before it becomes chometz and to stop the yetzer Hora process before there is sin. 

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

  "Both should be fully committed and give full consent before getting married"

  Yet, the yidden said "nasseh v'nishma" before "getting married" to  Hashem. We agreed to keeping the requirements of the marriage, the Torah, BEFORE knowing the details.

  The intimation is that a young man and woman should know the other to a certain extent before giving knowledgeable consent and committing to marriage. And this is indeed the way young couples get married in many circles.

  Yet, we see that in chasidic circles (besides Chabad) a couple gets married with one or two  meetings  arranged by the parents.  They have 5 minutes to say yes or yes. These chasidic marriages are more closely aligned with our naaseh v'nishma with Hashem. These chasidic couples say "we will do" BEFORE they knew the details if the spouse. 

  These chasidic couples have a far lower rate of divorce than other frum couples who date for much longer, who feel that they know the other much more and therefore have informed consent.  

  How is this possible? It's tge opposite of logic. Those who have basically arranged marriages and barely know each other have a higher rate of success than those who know each better abd therefore the consent is more informed!

  I opine that those with arranged marriages live much more aligned with a solid rigid blueprint for life. A chosson from Williamsburg expects and knows exactly how his kalla from Golders Green will make the kugel for Shavuous. They adhere much more to  a rigid blueprint and therefore with much less variation from tge blueprint they are more likely to succeed.  

  The yidden also had an "arranged" marriage with Hashem. 5 minutes to say yes or be buried under the mountain.  We succeeded because we were committed to the blueprint and to the concept of marriage itself regardless if the inevitable ups and downs of the marriage. 

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

  Torah and Tefilla and two sides of our conversation with Hashem

  As mentioned before, Torah is basically Hashem speaking to us. Giving us our marching orders. With myriads of layers to unravel. 

  And tefilla is our response to Hashem.  Every shmonei esrai we praise, request and thank.

  Besides Torah and Tefilla being the 2 sides of a Divine conversation, proper Tefilla requires Torah beforehand as spiritual preparation and to "know how"; and proper Torah learning requires prior tefilla that we learn well. 

  We shouldn't learn Torah without Bircas Hatorah beforehand.  And we can't make the brocha without some learning afterwards.  

  Thus Torah and Tefilla are intimately connected in several ways.

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

  There are comments and questions from last

  Monday and Thursday last week unanswered.  Gut yom tov. 

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

• Anonymous -3 שנים לִפנֵי

  Torah was given to Ochley Haman- taking the food and absorbing into the body so too the torah is has to be absorbed throughout the body

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sara Metzger -3 שנים לִפנֵי

  And yet...

  davening is hard for many people. They (I) get distracted with my other thoughts, the words are sometimes hard to process entirely, and other things that happen to make it challenging. So if one expereiences this and doesn't "connect" which I think is the word you used with GD, is studying Torah not to be done? I'm thinking the answer is no, we should still study. Because isn't that another way to connect with GD. Is one davening, really dependent on the other, studying Torah? Maybe what you are describing is the ideal?

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Denisse Miriam -3 שנים לִפנֵי

  Shalom from Chile. 

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

Likkutei Torah Behar Ki Savo'u #6 - 5781

Rabbi YY Jacobson

• May 16, 2021
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• 5 Sivan 5781
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