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Stress No More

This Lesson Can Change Your Life

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Class Summary:

Do you feel you have obstacles in life which hinder your emotional and spiritual wholesomeness? This class can change that forever. It maintains one of the fundamental ideas of Chassidus: Your life has no obstacles, only opportunities to experience intimacy with yourself and G-d.

But to internalize this, we need to experience a paradigm shift. We have to put on a new pair of “glasses” through which to view our world.

This class, studying a text of Maor Einayim by the Chassidic master, Rabbi Nachum of Chernobyl (1730-1797), explores the tragic story of King Manasseh who ridicules two biblical verses, one from Vayishlach and one from Vayeitzei. We explore the stories of Timnah, King Menasseh, Yosef, and how to view all thoughts, instincts, emotions, encounters, and experiences as messages from G-d trying to bring us closer to the core of reality.

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Chani -6 years ago
ישר כי על השיעור הנפלא בספר הקדוש מאור עיניים

זה היה חיזוק גדול ואיני יודע מה להגיד אבל השאלה האם כוונת המאור עיניים היה רק בעת שיש מחשבה רעה או חס ושלום אם נפחו בזה יש גם התחזקות על ידי שמבואר בספרים שעיקר היצר הוא המחשבות שבא לאדם אחר העבירה על זה גם נאמר דברי המאור עיניים?
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- Anonymous -6 years ago
  לכאורה נראה שזה אפילו לאחרי שחטא, שהרי סו"ס התכלית היא תשובה, ועפ"ז מובן מה דזדונות נעשו לו כזכיות. ועי' תניא פרק ז. לקוטי שיחות חלק ה פרשת לך. חלק יז פרשת אחרי מות באריכות גדולה.
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Anonymous -7 years ago
skipping the stories of Bereshis
to support that...

there are some stories that one not allowed to translate like it says in Megila
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Anonymous -7 years ago
vayotsi hahutso
vayotsi hahutso also mentioned by Avrom

יוצא אתו החוצה: לפי פשוטו הוציאו מאהלו לחוץ לראות הכוכבים, ולפי מדרשו אמר לו צא מאצטגנינות שלך שראית במזלות שאינך עתיד להעמיד בן, אברם אין לו בן, אבל אברהם יש לו בן. וכן שרי לא תלד, אבל שרה תלד, אני קורא לכם שם אחר וישתנה המזל. דבר אחר הוציאו מחללו של עולם והגביהו למעלה מן הכוכבים, וזהו לשון הבטה מלמעלה למטה:

same idea

very interesting

thank u
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- Anonymous -7 years ago
  whereby Avrom, Hashem needed to take him out of his limitations
  
  and by Yosef he himself "Vyonos" run away, was able to lift himself up without anyone's help
  
  Maybe that's why Timna was rejected by Avrohom and Yitzchok. There ware not on Yosef's level.
  
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Shmuel C -8 years ago
Dear Rabbi,
I thank you for a fascinating perspective into the vision of our infinite Torah, and Hashems loving embrace, through His saintly leaders of the generation.
I find this idea (our most depraved instincts mirroring our portal into our infinite potential of experiencing the divine) concretely alluded to in a profound analysis of the Talmud in Shabbat 49b, where a Talmudic scholar, Reb Yosef, questions the calculation for our resolution of the 39 forbidden labors being inferred from the amount of times it says "melacha" -labor/activity, in the Torah.
He particularly questions the story of his namesake "Yosef the righteous" entrance to his masters home to do his "Work" (Talmud Sotah 37 "commiting promiscuity").
How in the world do our saintly Rabbis in attempt to construct a juxtaposition, compare the story of Yosef on the verge of falling into sin, to the most Gd given-gift to the world: Shabbos, its particular details as how to guard and abstain from the forbidden "activities".
Furthermore, Guarding the Shabbos bestows upon the entire world the radiance and ambiance of the Divine presence in our physical reality, the exact opposite of Yosefs story which dispels any vestige of Gdly supervision?!!!
The answer was beautifully explained in the class; in Short, our darkest trials are the very threshold to experience the most intimate of the Divine embrace, if we choose to "see" the opportunity in the difficulties.
Thank you Rabbi!!!
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Mendel Zilberberg -9 years ago
Ty -- In thinking about your Shiur -- It is possible that with respect to Shemesh and ( thereafter) Mogen -- both Hashems attributes of Din and Chesed are invoked to signify that the attribute amay depend on how we deal with it -- either as a challenge or an opportunity
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