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What Is Consciousness? How the Undefined Becomes Defined

Three Dimensions of Reality: World, Consciousness, & Divinity

1 hr 22 min

Class Summary:

Preparing for Yud Shevat, world-renowned teacher Rabbi YY Jacobson  on Monday, 1 Shevat, 5783, January 23, 2023, in Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim, 18 Forshay Road, presented to the Monsey community part two of the incredible and revolutionary Maamar Basi Legani 5723 (1963), said by the Rebbe 60 years ago, at the Yud Shevat Farbrengen.

The theme of the second class of the maamar is the teaching of the Baal Shem Tov that reality, and every single word we say, has three dimensions: World, Consciousness, & Divinity; our role is to align and fuse the three dimensions. The Rebbe explains that these three aspects represent--the world of undefined infinity, Elakus, pure Divinity; the world of souls--which captures the undefined within identity; and finally--the world in which we feel fragmentation and separateness.

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    There was only Ohr Ein Sof and then came

    The Tzimtzum. The tzimtzum, a withdrawal of the Ohr Ein Sof, allowed for creation, gave "space" so that everything could be created. Including space itself and even time. 

    But. ..there must have something OUTSIDE of and BESIDE the Ohr Ein Sof, that was the force or energy that acted upon the Ohr Ein Sof so as to contract it with the Tzimzum.

    I.e. the force that made the Tzimtzum was outside of or besides the Ohr Ein Sof.

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Maamer Basi L'Gani 5723 #2

Rabbi YY Jacobson

  • January 23, 2023
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Dedicated by Shimshon and Rivky Vcherashansky in loving memory of Reb Zalman Yuda ben Reb Sholom Yeshaya Deitch

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