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Why the Body Is Higher than the Soul

It Is the Body, Not the Soul, That Hashem Chooses

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This text-based class, in Likkutei Sichos vol. 23, Menachem Av/Matos-Masei, was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Friday, Parshas Matos-Maasei, 29 Tammuz, 5781, July 9, 2021, live from his home in Monsey, NY.

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Sara -3 years ago
So free choice
for us is really another paradox. Another very hard (at least for me) thing to achieve. My choice has to be HIS choice. This takes so much dedication, learning, constant awareness, all the time, in every occasion, circumstance, situation.
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  Sara -3 years ago
  Thank you for adding on to my question. You said it well
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
Hashem has no antecedent and therefore the concept of free choice
Only applies to Him. And He CHOSE to create creation? To create man to whom He gave seemingly free choice? To chose Avraham and his descendents?
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
The guf is higher than the heshoma
This is just another application of the general principle that when the wall falls, when the Kelim were broken and the sparks scattered then that which was higher fell further away.

This explains that techias hamaysim will be from the physical Luz bone. Why we gather and bury all parts of a dismembered body, rm"L. Why cremation is forbidden. Etc
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Sara Metzger -3 years ago
But
GD doesn't really need anything, does HE? So the davening for our needs (physical AND Spiritual) is for us to be able to get closer to GD, to make us more complete. The act of davening in a sincere and true way can get us there.
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
If am totally aligned with Hashem, His needs and desires
Then whether I am davenning for my own selfish needs or His needs abd desires, it's all the same. I DO what He wants and therefore I NEED what He wants and my davenning whether for my needs or His, is the same
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
Neglah and Nister
Can we say Nigleh is WHAT and nister is WHY?
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
The pound of flesh isn't mine
Yet, we see mesiras nefesh yidden donate a kidney, a part of their liver, etc. A shaliach in BJ has even done both.
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
Different opinions for what we should daven, for our needs or Hashem's
But....we learn the basics of davenning from tge story of Chana and Eli. She was davenning for a baby, a seemingly selfish item (unless you say she wanted her great son not for her sake but for the benefit of yidden and even Hashem).

Ditto for Rivka and Yitzchak.

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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
Something doesn't make sense
We keep the months according to the moon. The full moon is always on the 15th and the new moon is on the first. We have an intercalculated month. Nonjews have 12 months a year and the full or new moon can be any time during their month. This was likely the case also during the Babylonian era.

I.e. the Babylonians had nothing to do with our Jewish months when we were there in that golus. How could they have had names for our Jewish style months when it was irrelevant to them?
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