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  isaac -4 years ago

  Nefesh hachaim שער א׳ סוף פרק י״ב the whole Perek 12 hes driving this point but towards the end he uses this loshon:

  וז״ל שאינו על דרך העונש ונקימה ח״ו.

   this we can add to the series you have כפה עליהם הר כגיגית which sounds really tough and mean,  but you hve in parshas haazinu יסובבנהו Rashi says it means כפה עליהם הר . And over there in האזינו Moshe is saying things of love and good hashem did to the Jews. Clearly it wasn’t just “ok enough is enough your in or out, got no time,” with that scary face.

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  yosef -4 years ago

  I was looking for a shiur for Parshas Eikev and I found the one you did in 2017.

   

  My head is still reeling from the breadth and depth of the content,  My tefilos have been upgraded for good! Hashem Loves us no matter what.  I'm so glad that I listened to that Shiyur I can't even tell you. This makes every davening better for me and my wife.

   

  Thank you Thank you and Thank you again.

   

  BTW, I sent it to my whole family! 

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  Mati -6 years ago

  Divine Anger

  Ego does not experience anger, jelousy, revenge the same way as Divine Energy experiences.

  We need to understand the operating system in Divine and Ego energy to be able to grasp a bit of what is Divine Energy's "anger".

  The Divine energy's flow is thru Mashpia (giver) and Mekabel (receiver), it has only 2 movements, moving close or pulling away.

  In order for the Mekabel to receive, the mashpia needs to pull away in order to create a lack and the will(the I want) is activated and the mekabel will draw the energy, like for example the system of the syrenge.

  We know God created the world by concealing It's energy and than He wanted and creation happened.

  We take for granted the "will", we are not aware that we start almost every sentence, before doing anything with the words "I want", not even knowing what and where this "want" is and comes from.

  The soul has 10 foctions, but it has 2 motivators the WILL and PLEASURE, these 2 motivators are experienced in our Divine Soul and our ego.

  In Divine Energy and in our Divine Soul the process would look like this:

  Divine Energy pulls back (angry)- creating a lack- activating the will- drawing of energy, which is a very empowering experience. 

  The experience of lacking in Divine Energy and in our Divine Soul our REAL SELF, is  a lack that draws energy, allowing and pulling new energy, new opportunities.

  But, G-d ceated "Ze Leumat Ze" which means that the ego's experience mirrors the Divine experience.

  So, the ego's experience being the opposite would look like this:

  Ego is lacking something, it does not have what is wants-creates anger, jealousy, etc., the will is activated, it becomes full of itself and  it does not draw any new energy because it's energy is circular so it will only heat up the same energy , it will not be empowering but very nasty.

  So, if Divine draws NEW energy, the ego mirrors it and it ciruculates OlD energy.

  In a jew, since we have a Divine Soul, if we are aware of it regularly and close to it, connected ot it, we will experience the lack, the concealment as an opportunity for NEW Divine Energy, but if our reality is only ego, the experience of lack, will be very different.

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  Adiv -6 years ago

  מהותו האמיתית של הקב"ה

  הרצאה טובה מאד ויש בה חומר רב להתחשב היטב עליו. אך לבסוף הרבה פעמים הקב"ה או הורג אנשים בעצמו כגון במבול ובמגפות שונות אשר שלח לעם ישראל, או הוא מצוה למשה או לבית דין להרוג בני אדם על דברים לא חשובים כל עיקר. אי אפשר לשכנע אדם שיש בו שמץ של דעת והבנה שמעשים שכאלו באים ממקור של חסד, אהבה ורחמים. אי אפשר לתקן אדם על ידי הריגתו.

  ועוד היתכן שלרבון העולמים יש תחושות של אהבה או חרון אף או קנאה? ואיך נוכל לדעת מה הוא חושב או רוצה או לו רוצה כשאינו נראה ואינו נשמע.

  לי נראה שרק יוצרים תירוצים חלשים כדי לרכך את הרשימה הבולטת של א-ל כעסן.

  תודה רבה וכל הכבוד לרב הנכבד שליט"א

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  Martin Cury -6 years ago

  But, is that so?

  I always learn and enjoy your lectures, but I have major questions on this one.

  The blessings and the curses in the Torah.... The curses don’t sound like love, they are threats that came to fruition.  HaAzinu, Hashem knows what His people are going to do before they do it, and knows He will be punishing them. Yes forgiveness comes from that but it all seems like a set up.  I don’t beieve the gas houses of the third riech were allowed to happen out of love. And yes, it is a bit Schizophrenic. Obviously I don’t understand.

  When a child is warned over and over again and still does the same thing again and again, do we continuously whip that child, do we throw the child out, or do we try to find a way of helping.  The Jewish people are that child.  As a result a majority of Jews are zombies following whatever seems to work for them and are quite lost.

  The Torah truly is the right way of life, but it is hard to bring the zombies back to it, and it is hard to understand the Shema Prime Directive as history is observed

  Thanks very much,

  Marty

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  moshe -6 years ago

  Gevaldik

  The is Gevaltig!!!! It brought me closer to hashem. 

  חזק ואמץ

  It was such an  inspiration: I felt compelled to share it.

  I Watched the shiur twice to internalize the message,  it's indeed very far from the God we are taught in cheder,   טוב השם had a new meaning today.

  We all (or most) have a negative image of God because this is what we are TAUGHT. IT DIDN'T happen naturally.

  Unfortunately, our educator's see this message ( hell etc)  as the  preferred and most potent way to impress upon us the importance of keeping mitzvot and be careful with halcha.  (I heard more than once, If not for hell, why bother...)

  I think this message has to be screamed from the roofdops to all of us. I'm looking fwd for future lectures on this important topic.

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  A Joseph -6 years ago

  Need more...

  Rabbi Jacobson, this shiur was amazing, but we need more. Well, i'll speak for myself - i need so much more. I need a whole seminar of "your" :) "Positive Judaism". I think a lot of people need it.

  My image of Hashem right now, and Judaism in general, is so negative. The Holocaust, all the suffering, the widows and orphans. I just see that wagging finger, and envision the Gehinnom i'll have to go through for every minute of bitul torah, or for looking at something i shouldn't have, or for having enjoyed something of this world.

  I think you've opened a can of worms here, but it needed to be opened.

  What about where it says that Hashem will rejoice in destroying us, in the tochacha. A father says to his son - I'm gonna punish you like you can't imagine, and i'll rejoice in doing it." How do you read that positively?

  I often think that there's no way i could be mekarev someone to be frum, and thats sad.

  It's sad for my kids too. My daughter is scared about Moshiach coming because she has heard, just like i have, that there will be lots of suffering before he comes, and many people will die. We just learned in Daf Yomi about Ulah and Rabbah who said, "Let him come, but I don't want to be there." I don't know what to tell her.

  Please Rabbi YY - give us some more.

  Thank you for the beautiful shiur, and for your bravery in talking about the real issues, honestly and openly.

  A Joseph

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  • Anonymous -6 years ago

    I think it is reasonable to presume that the terrible times that the sages of the talmud did not want to see have already happened in the first half of the 20th century. It makes perfect sense that they would not want to see what Stalin did to us or what Hitler did to us.

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      Mendel Zilbereberg -6 years ago

      I saw the shiur and found it to be uplifting, thought provoking, and looking at the commments -- it awakened/resonated with and within the commenters.

      I tink that there may be certain areas that have to be studied, understood and even reconciled. 

      However, the lecture dealt with some verses that we regularly say -- and the question is if and in what context we understand them.

      What do wee mean when we repeatedly say that Hashem LOVEs us in so many different iterations.  Do we believe it to be true. 

      Rabbi YY shared a context in which we can understand the meaning of what we keep on saying and praying -- citing either our prayers or the chassidic masters.

      No one is questioning the translation offered by Rabbi YY and thus far noone has argued that even the misnagdim had an alternate translation to our SIDDUR - whather sefard or Ashenaz.

      So the question is really not to Rabbi YY -- but rather to ourselves -- 

      HOW DO WE 

      1.  understand out relationship to/with Hashem

      2.  understand HASHEM's relationship to us

      3. understand the meaning of our prayers

      4. understand the "tough love" parts of CHUMASH/ HISTORY

      I dont think that any one shiur will answer all of these questions, or that even if there is an answer that everyone will agree.  

      However, I think that as we are at the Parsha of Avraham Avuinu who was not scared to ask question or challenge the status quo -- that we be ready to rexamine much of what we were taught or more importantly what we were not taught and never learned about the predecates of Judaism.  

      Hopefully Rabbi YY and others will continue speaking about these core issues that linger beneath the surface of so many of us whose educational backround never really dealt or did not adequately deal with these central core issues.

      From my perspective, if a lesson, speech or lecture leaves one with the feelin that they want to to a mitzvbah, or do a mitzvah better, or they feel more connected -- it is probably the right path

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