This women&#39;s class was presented on Tuesday Parshas Bechukosai, 23 Iyar, 5779, May 28, 2019 at the Ohr Chaim Shul, Monsey, NY

Every Disaster in Jewish History Unleashed an Outburst of Creativity

Women's Bechukosai Class

How Jews Overcame Collective PTSD

&ldquo;I will terminate (v&#39;hishbati) evil beasts from the land,&rdquo; the Torah states in Bechokosei. The precise meaning of the Hebrew word hashbatah, rendered here as &ldquo;terminate,&rdquo; is debated by our sages.

According to Rabbi Judah, the term implies the utter cessation of a thing&rsquo;s existence. Thus, Rabbi Judah understands the divine promise to &ldquo;terminate evil beasts from the land&rdquo; to mean that in the harmonious world of Moshiach all destructive creatures and forces will be &ldquo;removed from the world.&rdquo; Rabbi Shimon disagrees: in his opinion, hashbatah implies only the termination of a thing&rsquo;s particular characteristics&mdash;in this case, the destructive nature of &ldquo;evil beasts.&rdquo; It is this feature of their being that G-d will eliminate, while they continue to exist in their new harmless and gainful cast.

The class explores that this is the root of several other debates between Rabbi Judah and Rabbi Shimon, concerning the elimination of Chametz, rest on Shabbos, Moshiach, the nature of the Roman Empire, and many other themes in Jewish law.

The class goes on to explore the debate on a physiological and spiritual level. How do we deal with children who are &ldquo;wild animals?&rdquo; How do we deal with our ego and arrogance? And how do we view the essential nature of the world?

Reb Yehuda and Reb Shimon Debate Rome, Shabbos, Chametz, the Ego, and Moshiach

Class Bo/Bechokosei/Lag Baomer

To Be Or Not To Be? Two Paths Diverged in Judaism

This advanced text-based class, a Sicha of the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Likkutei Sichos vol. 7 Parshas Bechukosai) dissects the underlying perspectives of Reb Yehuda and Reb Shimon&nbsp;concerning three areas where the term &quot;Shabbos&quot; is used. The question is what are we to do with &quot;evil beasts&#39; &amp; the ego: Do we seek obliteration or transformation?

The Rogatchover Gaon and the Lubavitcher Rebbe Reveal the Underlying Perspectives of Reb Yehuda and Reb Shimon

Likkutei Sichos Bechokosei

What To Do with the 'Evil Beasts' & the Ego -- Two Opinions: Likutei Sichos Bechukosai

Correction: Likutei Sichot volume 7!

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Passover (Pesach) celebrates the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt.

What To Do with the 'Evil Beasts' & the Ego -- Two Opinions: Likutei Sichos Bechukosai

The Rogatchover Gaon and the Lubavitcher Rebbe Reveal the Underlying Perspectives of Reb Yehuda and Reb Shimon

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