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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  צבי -4 years ago

  הבאת באחד השיעורים שמהדיו שנשתייר בקולמוס קרן אור פני משהוע"ז הובא במדרש תנחומא לז  מהפסוק בחבקוק ג דקרנים מידו לו ושם חביון עוזווזה ניתן לקרא בעוד 2 צורות:קרנים מדיו לווגם קרנים מיוד לו (כל נקודה היא האות יו"ד)
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  Canada -7 years ago

  When I re-worked your Simchas Torah shiur to make it my own...there was one major change I made...that made it my voice...I spoke about how some Jews live in the letters and some live in the parchment.....but I also spoke about how we, on an individual level, sometimes live in the letters and sometimes live in the parchment....that our relationship with Hashem oscillates between those 2 spaces....when we feel spiritually alive and inspired....when we are learning...when we are davening.....we are in the letters...we feel close to Hashem....but there are times that we feel that G-d has left the building...we feel disconnected...we feel abandoned..etc....that is when we are living in the parchment. What we must know is that both the letters and the white space that surround them are integral to the kashrus of the scroll. Our relationship with Hashem is dynamic...we have times of feeling close, and time of feeling distant but they are both part of the relationship. Feeling distant isn't actually being distant. Yerida tzorech aliyah.

  Thinking about the shiur made me realize that truth for myself. That in all the darkness He has been with me....and that the relationship has always been alive and well. And that He is leading me somewhere. BH.

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    Rabbi YY Jacobson -7 years ago

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  p5uwtCq -8 years ago

  I don't understand the explanation of the intent of the medrash. Moshe didn't write a scroll while on Har Sinai, neither the first nor second time, I believe. So how can the medrash be referring to that episode. The luchos weren't written with a quill but carved out with a tool of some sort. There was no parchment and there was no quill.

  Also, I fail to comprehend the purpose of the extra ink left over after writing all the osios of the Torah. It seems from the lecture that the ink withheld corresponds to the blank areas of the gvil. That implies that had the extra ink been used, it would have filled in the blank portions of the parchment. But if the osios are black and the gvil is now painted/filled in with the same color ink, the scroll would no longer contain useful data, because the letters are indistinguishable from the background. That can't be the medrash's intent as it is completely illogical. So I am missing some fundamental understanding of the lesson and would appreciate some further clarification, as I may be too slow to pick up the essence of the Rabbi's drosho.

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    Rabbi YY Jacobson -8 years ago

    In response to your two questions:
    Obviously, this Midrash is to be understood in an allegorical fashion. We are referring here to what the ink represents spiritually, and what the white parchment represents spiritually.
    In addition, while on the mountain for 120 days and nights, Hashem did dictate much of the Torah to Moshe Rabanu (see the various opinions on how and when the Torah was prepared in Talmud Gitin p. 60 and in the Reshonim ibid.), so even practically much of the Torah may have been prepared. (There is a Rashi at the end of Mishpatim, that during the first forty days on the mt. Moshe did write the entire Torah scroll from Bereishis till Mishpatim.)
    As far as the extra ink: We are not talking about the parchment beneath the letters, which is of course necessary to give the letters background. But the space between letters, and the space between Parshas, and the space between Sedrahs, and the space between Sefarim. Has that space been eliminated, you can still read the Torah. Yet the space is there to represent a deeper and higher dimension of Torah, the one expressed in empty space, in silence, the Or Makif.
    Perhaps you would need ink of a different color, so as not to read all the letters as one.
    In fact, see Ramban in his into to Torah that the entire Torah is really the names of Hashem, but you have to know how to read the letters, so on some level, we still treat them as all attached, so we can read them in very different ways than we read them now.
    

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      p5uwtCq -8 years ago

      Thank you so much, Rabbi Jacobson, for your explanation and clarification of this very fascinating ענין. Perhaps this is way off base but do you suppose that a comparison could be made between the letters of ink דיו and the parchment substrate גוויל upon which they are written on the one hand and the תורה שבכתב and the תורה שבעל פה, in which the former corresponds to אור הפנימי and the latter to אור המקיף?

      Many thanks for your exceptional erudition and extraordinary oratory. יישר כחך

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        Rabbi YY Jacobson -8 years ago

        Yes, I think so. In Likkutei Torah Shmini Atzeres page 80 the Baal HaTanya explains that Divrei Sofrim in some ways represents the "sofer" who transcends the "Sefer," chachmah vs. binah.

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  p5uwtCq -8 years ago

  Brilliant shiur, Rabbi Jacobson. Thank you so much. Regarding Rash's comparison of the radiating light from pnei Moshe to actual horns, it would seem then that the "horns" should be inverted, with the narrow apex embedded in the skull and the wider base facing outward, since light beams radiating from a point source diverge as they propagate through space.

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  M -13 years ago

  Another class on Ki Sisa by Rabbi Jacobson
  http://www.crownheights.inf...
  
  Here is another video class. It is apparently from the year of Ki Sisa 2008, or 5768. it is about the haftorah, the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal and the two bulls.

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  YY Jacobson -13 years ago

  Answer to Moshe
  The answer is yes. The "makif" of Sukkos is the prelude to Hakafos. However, on Sukkos, we experience the "makif" outside of our homes, and on the last day of Yom Tov, on Simchas Torah, we eat in our homes, representing the idea that we internalize the makif, making it part of our inner identity.
  Chassidus also explains that the makif of Sukkah, the sechach, is spiritually generated by the awesome hovering cloud of ketores generated on Yom Kippur by the Kohen Gadol burning the incenses.
  Also, on Sukkos in the Beis Hamikdsh they would also be "makif," surround the altar each day with an aravah. We, today, do “haksfos” around the bimah which we call “hoshanos.”
  So, in summation, we are dealing with a period of “makif,” celebrating the power and depth of teshuvah.

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  Moshe -13 years ago

  makif-hakafos
  Rabbi Jacobson,
  In explaining the reason for simchas torah in Tishrei and not on Shavuos you mentioned the concept of makif and how the hakafos relate to that concept. Do they also relate to the makif that is the Succah and there fore explain hakafos just after Succos? Thanx for all of the wonderful shiurim.

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  Chaim M -13 years ago

  Michelangelo's Knowledge
  Fascinating information by Florentine about the Moses statue , thank you. One question though. If Michelangelo was so knowledgeable, how come his famous David statue has no bris milah?

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  YY Jacobson -13 years ago

  To Chai
  According to the opinion of Rabbi Yochanan in Talmud Gitin 60a, Moshe wrote the portions as they were happening, so at least some portions were transcribed earlier. True, not the portions of Vayikra and Behaaloscha, but the portions from Bereishis till the current time when Moses was on Sinai.
  
  In addition, according to the class, we may understand this midrash as a metaphor, the ink remaining in his quill would symbolize the parchment around the ink, not that he actually withheld himself from writing certain letters. This then would work even according to the second opinion in Talmud Gitin ibid, the view of Reish Lakish, that the Torah was only transcribed at the end of the 40 years in the desert.
  
  I hope this answers your question, Chai. If not, please ask further and I will try to explain.

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  chai -13 years ago

  but the torahs were writen latter?
  but the torahs were writen latter beofre moshe pased away?
  didnt get the awnser to this one

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  Jeff -13 years ago

  Very smart...
  and sensitive to the learner - to superimpose the Torah scroll over Rabbi Jacobson while he's speaking of it. Thank you for the visual aids.

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  Campus -13 years ago

  Horns or not?
  To Florentine and others. Michelangelo's statue may be indeed depicting Moses with horns, even if it wasn't intended to be anti-semitic but rather from common misunderstanding of the Hebrew original term "karan." According to Wikipedia: "The marble sculpture depicts Moses with horns on his head. This was the normal medieval Western depiction of Moses, based on the description of Moses' face as "cornuta" ("horned") in the Latin Vulgate translation of Exodus.The Douay-Rheims Bible translates the Vulgate as, "And when Moses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord." The Greek in the Septuagint translates as, "Moses knew not that the appearance of the skin of his face was glorified." The Hebrew Masoretic text also uses words equivalent to "radiant", suggesting an effect like a halo. Horns were symbolic of authority in ancient Near Eastern culture, and the medieval depiction had the advantage of giving Moses a convenient attribute by which he could easily be recognized in crowded pictures.
  According to Giorgio Vasari in his Life of Michelangelo, the Jews of Rome came like "flocks of starlings" to admire the statue every Shabat.

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  ADMIN -13 years ago

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  You may download the mp3 by clicking on the icon below the video. In regards to the video stopping, please trying the medium stream, if problem persists, please try downloading the mp3 to listen from your computer.
  
  We hope to have new classes from Rabbi YY Jacobson soon.

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  na -13 years ago

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  A powerful broadcast, also the second time, but we look forward to new torah from Rabbi Jacobson. When will this be?

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  tzipi glick -13 years ago

  video stopped
  Would love to hear th erest but it stopped at 9 minutes. Any suiggestions?

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  Eitan -14 years ago

  is it possible to download the videos,i would like to watch them, as i travel tommorrow to israel

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  Anonymous -14 years ago

  Take it easy
  Hey Florentine!
  Come back, please, come back: we miss you.

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  Meira -14 years ago

  To our new Guest from Florence
  
  I have few minutes before Shabbat to tell you that when I asked about references I didn’t mean to be mean. You sound very knowledgeable and I’m sure you will keep on enlightening us in undiscovered field more. So framing is very crucial in this, like a sterile field before serious med procedure.
  You might didn’t realize but Rabbi Jacobson with all his arguments for and against always has his ‘sterile gloves on.’
  Have a Good week !(if you like this cheering better.)
  

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  Joe -14 years ago

  to Florentine
  wow, this is the first time I hear this. Why does everyone think he was intending to make horns?

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  Meira -14 years ago

  To A Florentine
  Great job!
  Would you give us some references?...as Rabbi Yossi used to teach us with such...we are still in Torah Class.
  Thanks a lot and have a Good Shabbat!

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  A Florentine -14 years ago

  historical note: Michelangelo
  Michelangelos' Moses statue does not have horns. That may have been what the Vatican implied but Michelangelo himself grew up in Lorenzo il Magnifico's court the grandson of Cosimo de Medici who brought the Jews to Florence, not only as money lenders but as teachers. Especially of Kabalah and Medrash. From the age of 13/14 he lived in Lorenzo's palace and was tutored by Ficino and Pico della Mirandola, both filo-Semitic and especially Pico well versed in Jewish lore. So the 2 knobs on Moses' statue are there to produce a "special effect" to draw the light that came through a hole in the wall made purposely by Buonarroti down to the face of the statue. The marble on face itself was highly polished so that it would reflect the light drawn down to it by the two knobs on the head as if two light rays. Historian tell us that going to see the statue was one of Rome Jewry's pastimes until the hole was closed (because the influx of Jews disturbed the Curia) and the optical effect destroyed. There are many indications that Michelangelo knew Medrash. For example in his Garden of Eden representation he did not paint an apple tree like many others but a fig tree.
  There is a very interesting book on Michelangelos art that reveals many of his "digs" at the vatican and in favor of the Jews.

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  caryn fried -14 years ago

  dancing with the Torah
  thank you, you are a wonderful light to deeper understanding.

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  Delphine Bitton Creteil France -14 years ago

  paracha ki sisa
  thank you very much Rabbi Jacobson for this extraordinary chiour I never heard something so complete and deep about Moche Rabbenou and the jewish people!so great!a lot of emotion too for the story at the end!thank you again!God bless you Rabbi!

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  shlomo bekhor italy -14 years ago

  parasha without moshe name
  there other parshos as the Rebbe quotes without his name beside tezave, like: ekev...
  but there is different because moshe is talking, anyway is not precise to say that there was NO parasha without his name.
  yashar koah for the great work of this shiurim

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  Meira L. -14 years ago

  On Reflection...
  Hi Folks,
  Let me remind you that we are still in a game. Not that was before with “CARDS FACE UP!” but smaller one: “Take a shot” or “One card at a time.” It is from” Questions and Exercises”, from the curriculum, right below the video.
  My small journal is to question # 4 about Chassidic explanation for the ink left in the quill and how this ink brings healing to a broken people:
  What can teach us a lesson: a boring descriptions and presentation of full set of virtues a person has, or adventure with sweetness and bitterness of somebody’s feats,sins and mistakes…?
  So, what do you prefer: a good story about a bad guy or a bad story about a good guy?
  With holding back mentioning of his name and virtues, Moses saved ink for numerous stories that later had to be written and that we would be able to read and learn from. He saved space between letters for us, so we would be able to immerse fully in endless pool of unknown and than have a chance to shape those letters that we supposed to represent…
  Six hundreds thousands letters of Torah represent Benei Yisrael, all of us, right? There are thirteen attributes of G-s mercy in them, aren’t there? But Moses gives us his own gift: a tear of ink from his quill and freeDom- white parchment, to write script of our own… in order that we embrace it in A DANCE OF OUR LIFE...
  

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  Dr. Chaim Gershon Schild -14 years ago

  More Depth on the Topic
  See other sources quoted in that Ohr Hatorah which you have in your PDF shource sheets. Panim Yafos Sissa and Ohr Hameir which is really in vayera right before and is the vort on the haftorah about the oil.
  
  
  
  The PY vort is based on the Radvaz Kabbalah sefer Magen David in Os Nun which is the source for a Friediger Rebbe mamar also.
  
  
  
  See the same thing you said in Reb Tzadok Likutei Mamarim 100c, and a bit different in LiKutei MOharan 38:6.
  
  
  
  See DME - Degel Machne Ephraim - Sissa which also relates the struggle as internally with the Moshe painting portrait "midrash" which you must have heard about from the Tiferes Yisroel that I have another whole file on.
  
  
  
  There is plenty in the Shelah - as the Ohr HaTorah quotes some. The bottom line being that this point you make is also reciprocal as Moshe is affected by the people and this impedes on his ability to achieve the shar NUN (famous Baal Shem Tov story about him davening and everyone leaving for a break etc) as well as more controversally that the whole struggle is also within.

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  YYJ -14 years ago

  To Caryn
  A lovely question Caryn. I would suggest this: According to the teachings of Kabbalah and chassidism, a woman is usually more empowered to access her super-conscious self. Wonen are usually more equipped, biologically, mentally and spiritually, to become vulnerable and delve into deeper parts of their psyche. The skill of Emunah, true faith, transcending the daas, is more revealed and expressed by women. Thus, while man needs to dance away with the physical Torah in order to help him access the inner white parchment, the women can dance away with her soul and discover this dimension of Torah within her very being. For her to physically dance with the Torah is alright, but it would betray the true gift and ability of the woman.
  This is similar to the Aleyah issue. While the man experiences his aleyah, elevation, via going up to the Torah, the women can teach us how to experience an aleyah in our very being and essence. Each gender has a special power which we must impart to each other.

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  caryn fried -14 years ago

  Is it possible to get an answer to my question?
  I asked about dancing with the Torah. Would Rabbi please help me out with a response? Thank you

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  chaim -14 years ago

  sources
  Either you took this idea from somewhere or it really was a nice development of the theoretical concept.

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  Isaac -14 years ago

  great
  Absolutely briliant! And inspiring. Wow. Awesome. This is real Torah.

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  caryn fried -14 years ago

  a question concerning dancing with the Torah
  If I understand, in your shiur you talked about transcending daat and instead 'knowing' with your legs through dancing, dancing with the Torah, getting to the white spaces, a depth of knowing and understanding, which is desirable. If this is so desirable a state, why are women not allowed this? Thank you.

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  m. -14 years ago

  Thank you
  As always, beautiful, moving, inspiring. I really don't have the words to express the depth to which you clarify, help, uplift each and every week. You speak about what's mamash going on in my life, what I'm struggling to figure out, plus much more. A heartfelt thank you and yasher koach.
  m.

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  Kayo -14 years ago

  Todah
  Baruch HaShem,
  
  Todah Ravah for wonderful story of the Rebbe

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