Maamar Meraglim Shlach 5715 #2
Rabbi YY Jacobson
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Dedicated in memory of BenTzion Berel ben Moshe Feivel and Rochel Tzirel Keller, on the yarhzeit, 21 Sivan.
This is a text-based class on a Maamar, Chassidic discourse, by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Lehavin Inyan Taanas Hameraglim, presented on Shabbos Parshas Shlach, 28 Sivan, 5715, June 18, 1955.
This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Monday, Parshas Shlach, 20 Sivan, 5781, May 31, 2021, live from his home in Monsey, NY.
Maamar Meraglim Shlach 5715 #2
Rabbi YY Jacobson
Dedicated in memory of BenTzion Berel ben Moshe Feivel and Rochel Tzirel Keller, on the yarhzeit, 21 Sivan.
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Anonymous -1 year ago
Rabbi YY
Your insights, explanations and stories are the main course and why the world gathers around.
One suggestion, though, for your consideration: Can you have a download that features just the straight reading of the original text inside with English translation. This will give us perfect bookends with the straight rendering at one end and your talents at the other end.
May HaShem bless you with much success and good health in everything you touch.
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Rabbi Danny Bergson -2 years ago
Today we live in a society that sanctifies emotions and has regressed from reason or repressed it.
This post modernist philosophy elevates a person's experience and emotions over reason
this is literally a perpetuation of the sin of eating from tree of knowledge of good and evil
Chassidus is the antidote!
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Sara Metzger -2 years ago
Very happy to know that we aren't supposed to change our true essence especially when it's one like Abraham's Arava. Understand better the "working on" even a positive mida that may be out of balance.
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Sara Metzger -2 years ago
ahava*
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Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago
The NY Times reporting on Avraham as he set out for the Akeida:
An objective observer like the NY Times reporting on Avraham heading towards the Akeida, ready to kill his son, would have said this fanstical monotheist is a barbarian, a killer, and should be stopped. His cruelty to kill his don surpassed even those of the surrounding pagan nations. They would have accused him if torture and barbarity.
But, the newspaper reporter wasn't tuned into the emes, wasn't aware that Avraham was carrying it Hashem's true will even though it looked barbaric. The reporter was unaware that Avraham was being tested with his "final exam" where passing would mean that dafka Avraham and dafka this test was to establish the Jewish nation (even with Shem and Ever around) and failure would mean Hashem would have to find another progenitor of the yidden
Bottom line: we, as objective reporters without knowledge of the facts, should never judge another, even a person who appears to be killing or torturing another, because there is no way we can ever get in their shoes, or know all the facts and certainly never know what Hashem wants here. And being incapable of of truly knowing, we certainly should never act to harm another based on "fake news" it n inaccurate and incomplete knowledge of the entire reality
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Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago
We start the day saying the Akeida
This was the primordial test for man. And not just any man, but, even with some yiddishkeit existing by Shem and Ever, the man Avraham chosen to be the "foundation of foundations" of yiddishkeit.
Avraham was the paragon of chesed. He gave and gave. And do dafka he was tested with the test of the opposite of chesed, gevurah, with a command to kill his beloved son, who was intended to carry on his father's work.
Imagine Avraham's battle after getting the command to kill his son. His midda of chesed was apalled to say the least. This command would over turn his lifetime of work. It would eliminate the miraculous don they waited 100 years to have.
But his mind, his mochin was attuned to emes. He had gotten a command to kill his son. Avraham's mind and mochin overcame his natural midda to not kill his son.
Avraham's mind ruled his midda (even before the Tanya) and he was prepared to kill his son as a korban as commanded. And so Hashem, seeing that his mind overuled his heart and emotions and middos, chose dafka Avraham to be the first of the Avos, and the progenitor of the yidden. (Later Moshe was chosen when Hashem saw he cared even for a lost sheep).
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Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago
There's mochin (mind) and middos (emotions)
Mochin can change and grow. Middos are a person's character traits.
Doesn't Tanya say that the mind (which is open to influence and change) should rule the heart and emotions (which don't change?
Let's say a person gets angry and wants to retaliate when things don't go his way like when he lost a court case. But his mind says that the decision of the court is hashgocha protis and represents Hashem's will and the mind accepts it. Now the mind has the job to tame the middos and emotions and quell the anger resulting from the loss.
So when a person gets angry, upset, frustrated, or any other negative emotion, especially if he considers harming another as a result, he must think, use his mochin, his mind, and tame the beast of the emotions.
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Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago
They left one side open for the cnaanim to flee
And so too today, the IDF "knocks" on the roof of a Hamas roof before they bomb the building allowing the residents to flee. A Torah army
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Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago
Wasn't the Rebbe punctual to the minute?
When the shiur starts late, as always, hundreds of people lose thousands of minutes waiting.
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