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  Vivi Altabe -2 years ago

  Thank you Rabbi Jacobson! Such a pleasure to see Neuroscience explained through the lens of Chassidus. 

  Yes, the ratson is the pulsion the sets us into motion. Neuroscience differentiates between emotions and sentiments. 

  E-motions are the énergies (e) that put us into motion. We can then lengthen it by mentalizing it (senti+ment) and it will create emotive states which are middos.

  Ratson is who i really am and is rooted in what i intrinsically desire (taanug). Beautiful to see you bringing up these concepts!

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  מלך יוסף -2 years ago

  מה שבאמת מעצב את המידות שלנו זה מההורים אבא ואמא או בצורה ישירה או בעקיפה לא סתם אומרים התפוח לא נופל רחוק מהעץ ולכן ענין מוחין לא פשוט לא במבט חיובי לא במבט שלילי שאז ממש קשה ובמיוחד אם אתה לא לומד חסידות ותניא אז לא מודעים לזה 

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• Anonymous -2 years ago

  YASHER KOACH! great words

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  Reverse engineering occurs when someone takes a finished

  Piece of technology and figures out how it was made. The Chinese take a high tech American product, takes it apart to see what it consists of and how its put together.  Ditto for corporate competition. Etc 

  We are given 2 finished high tech products. One is the world around us. When we reverse engineer the world its called science. 

  The second is the high tech (i.e. complicated( human being.  When we reverse engineer the human it's called psychology and chassidus 

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• Anonymous -2 years ago

  Without work on our "ratzon" or primal drives to align with Hashems what is the point of anything?

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• Anonymous -2 years ago

  Just by noticing the primal drive as you put it when they create negative emotions can effect the visceral reactions. This is the whole point of real healing. Please explain why you say this ratzon, this drive can not affect lower manifestations for the better.

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  Primal drive begats thoughts which begats emotions

  The farmer has a primal drive to continue to live which necessitates food.  This leads to planting seeds which correspond to thoughts.  These thoughts leads to the food which grows (emotions). 

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  1. Primal midda 2. Thoughts 3. Emotions

  These exist for us humans

  They also exist for Hashem 

  His primal drive was to create a home below

  His thoughts went back and forth:  create the world, don't create the world, sustain the world and the yidden, destroy the world and the yidden, etc

  His middos were His alternating between chesed and gevurah reacting to the conduct of man (Adam, the flood, Abraham's and Moshe's pleas to spare everyone) etc

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• Anonymous -2 years ago

  How is it that the core of the soul doesnt change as we are in constant growth with every mitzvah we do...?

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