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How to Live in Bliss: If I Can’t Feel the Pain, I Can’t Feel the Joy

Why Didn’t Jews Lose Their Faith? Reb Akiva, Eli Wiesel, and the Rebbe

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סיכום השיעור:

This class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Tetzaveh, 11 Adar I, 5784, February 20, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

The class explores the end of the Code of Jewish Law on the availability of constant bliss, the joy of the month of Adar, and the grief of the month of Av. We explore the enigmatic Talmudic story of Reb Akiva's visit to Rome and why he laughed, the explanation of the Alter Rebbe on bliss and pain, and the exchange between the Rebbe and Eli Wiesel on the question of the Holocaust, and why Jews have not lost their faith, even in the face of such adversity.

We finally explain how pain and joy merge together in the profoundest experience of the soul's bliss.

 

אנא השאירו את תגובתכם למטה!

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    Gitty Stern -9 חודשים לִפנֵי

    wow so true

    Thank you so much, I really relate to laughing from the pain, and feeling a deep sense of love from inside the pain

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • Anonymous -9 חודשים לִפנֵי

    This is one of the best classes I have heard.Thank you Rabbi for sharing such deep and important teachings

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • Anonymous -9 חודשים לִפנֵי

    I don't understand are you saying the only we are truly happy is when we are close to Hashem. When we are connected ? 
    hwo do we live a life like that when we are not philosophers or torah scholars. ? 
    whar about marriage children etc. those are happy moments. ? 
    Breakups death sickness ??

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • Anonymous -9 חודשים לִפנֵי

    Then there should be nocomplaints about horrific events that occur like Oct. 7.  One should acknowlege the infinite goodness of women getting raped and tortured and watched by their families.  There shouldn't even be talk of revenge.  That also goes for diseases and sickness.  It should be welcomed as infinite goodness.  .

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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    Rachel Pollack -9 חודשים לִפנֵי

    ישר כח

    So very moved by this shiur. Thank you for giving words to such a deep awareness!  

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

Adar/Purim Katan Women's Class/Joy

Rabbi YY Jacobson

  • February 20, 2024
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  • 11 Adar I 5784
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Dedicated by Sarah Malkie Simon commemorating the yartzeit of her dear husband R' Yitzchak Yaakov (Jerry) ben Moshe Simon, on the 4th of Adar Alef.

Dedicated in merit of Esther Avigayil bas Rochel Sarah, for her birthday on Shushan Purim Katan.

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