Cry for the Pain, Then Come Eat Bread
The Four-Step Program: Planting, Grinding, Kneading, Baking
1 hr 23 min
Likkutei Torah Behar Ki Savo'u #5 - 5781
- May 13, 2021
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- 2 Sivan 5781
Rabbi YY Jacobson
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This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, Parshas Bamidbar, 2 Sivan, 5781, May 13, 2021, live from his home in Monsey, NY.
Likkutei Torah Behar Ki Savo'u #5 - 5781
Rabbi YY Jacobson
- May 13, 2021
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- 2 Sivan 5781
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Dedicated by Marcia Rubin
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Dr. Aharon Faiman -3 years ago
119,20 Tehillim: ‘girsa nafshi” - shattered, broken crushed, deep bitul, also means learning/readingR
Hirsch Tehillim: “My soul has absorbed (life’s teaching’s) for its striving after Your ordinances at all times.”
Artscroll Tehillim: “My soul is shattered with yearning for Your ordinances always.”
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
Torah is bread
And chassidus is the butter!
Much tastier!
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
Fire and water are mutually incompatible
Bring them together and either the water douses the fire or the fire boils away the water.
Depends which is greater.
Of course a pot, an intermediary is necessary to bring the two together. With a pot the fire doesn't go out and the water isn't boiled away (but merely warmed).
So too a fire type of love and a water type of love need an intermediary to coexist.
That intermediary is balance. So too with chesed and gevurah, and all other bifurcations Hashem has set up in this world.
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
Kneading a dough mixes flour (the end product of planting, etc) and water
Baking (heating up the kneaded dough of flour and water) forces the water to escape the dough and leave the baked flour behind.
So after baking (fire) we are left with the baked out flour.
What's the difference between unbaked flour or dough and the baked flour? The flour has undergone an essential qualitative chemical transformation.
Matza is the quintessence here. The chemical process of fermentation that begins when the water hits the flour, is ARRESTED before the fermentation process is complete.
Matza is arrested fermentation. The flour has had the potential to change but was stopped.
Notice that foodstuffs which have no flour are never chometz and never were potentially chometz. We are not commanded to eat foods that cannot become chometz but can so become but the process is arrested.
A being that cannot become chometz like an angel or animal and is just acting out according to its nature, is not what Hashem ultimately desires.
Hashem desires that the chometz is arrested and we eat that. He wants that we have the yetzer Hora and have the potential to be chometzdik yet we use our free choice and koychos to "arrest" and stop that process.
Jewish neshomas that are successful in their mission ARREST the innate potential to become chometz.
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
As the Alter Rebbe says, Torah and tefilla are two sides of a bilateral conversation
Hashem speaks to us, His side of the Divine conversation, with the Torah. That is what He wants, what he expects of us, what our "marching orders" are.
Our side of this Divine conversation is our tefilla to Him. We praise , ask and thank on every shmoneh esrai.
These are the two sides of our Divine conversation with Hashem.
Then comes action after hearing the other.
We have free choice to listen, to do as we are told. To do it or not. Hashem also, kaviochel (so to speak) has "free choice" to listen to our tefillas, to do what we ask for or not.
Torah is a mitzvah every minute we learn whether we do what is prescribed or not, whether it has affected us or not. . So learning is never "lost" and always has a positive result.
But the real "tachlis" bottom line, the ENDS and GOAL of Torah is whether we listen to it or not. Whether we are affected by it or not.
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
All the stages of planting etc until we get to the consumable bread
Is only the MEANS to an end. While we wouldn't survive without bread (food) eating bread or anything else is not the ENDS. Gorging on food is gluttony.
Rather what we do do with the energy that comes from eating the bread is ENDS. Eating and all prior farming steps are merely means to achieve the ends.
One can eat and go and use that energy for holy things (including a parnassa to support a family), neutral things or even unholy things (the bank robber also had his oatmeal that morning).
So too with Torah. I submit that learning Torah is simply a MEANS to an END (altho the mere fact of learning without subsequent action is also a great mitzvah). One can turn the Torah into conduct that is desirable by Torah and Hashem. Or the opposite.
We all know people who grow into beautiful people by having absorbed Torah. And we all know people who use Torah as an ax to chop up others, to self aggrandize, to be pompous and feel self righteous and superior. This attitude was common when the Baal Shem Tov stood up against the elitism of Torah scholars in his day (and today).
So the question is: what will you do with the energy after eating the bread? And what will you do with the "koychos" (spiritual energy) obtained after learning Torah.
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