• Anonymous -6 years ago

  Smadja

  Why is Adam not metioned in the list of 10 people (Mishna Sotah 9:2)?

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  • Anonymous -6 years ago

    By Adam it was completely on a different level. The Mishnah there speaks of people like Haman, who were simply selfish. By Adam, there was an idealistic ambition: He wanted to be infinite as the Divine. Yet, like everything in the world, even the lowest manifestations of negativity originate in a sublime source. 

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  Jeff -13 years ago

  Wonderful, Wonderful...
  multifaceted shiur - a wealth of knowledge, resources, and presentation. Very robust teaching - kol hakavod! You enlighten and enliven my relationship with the parsha (and, by extension, with Hashem), weekly. It's that much clearer and memorable (as is learning about my self/my own areas for personal improvement), consequently. Thank you!

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  JOSEPH -14 years ago

  ADAM AND EVE
  Humans. Always wanting the one thing they can't have. Adam and Eve set the right tone for humanity.

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  Leo -14 years ago

  Excellent
  Rabbi Jacobson, thanks very much for this excellent shuir, I am from Argentina in South America and every week I downloaded the Shiur. You are so clear that even me that don´t have a good english level can understand and enjoy your explanations.

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  Ber -14 years ago

  To Gila
  Rabbi Jacobson said this was "one possible explanation." It does not account for all. if a child is taught all these things in an emotionally dysfunctional way, it may backfire. if a child lacks any tools to succsed in the "system," here too he may not endure. And so many other factors.
  yet i think we all see, that children who are taught to a geneuine set of values in a genuine and not dysfunctional and abusive way, it stays with them. sometimes it lay dormat but later in life it emerges in its full splendor.
  

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