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A Blast in Three Dimensions

Three Perspectives on Blowing the Shofar

1 hr 10 min

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This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Friday, Parshas Nitzavim, 26 Elul, 5781, September 3, 2021, live from his home in Monsey, NY.

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    Leah Klein -3 years ago

    So is free choice the deep knowledge of TRUTH and once you get it,  theres no choice , theres only one way ...the TRUTH OF HASHEM AND HIS TORAH. I always understood that this is nishoma knowledge that we'll only acquire when we are divested of our guf upon our physical death. So if this state  is indeed possible then I think we are operating like animals that have no choice... they operate by instinct as they are programmed within their DNA. So at the end if the day I still don't get bechira chofshis.

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    Dini -3 years ago

    Is the reason we say ‘yifchar lonu’ BEFORE the blowing of the shofar to emphasize that the bechira is even before the blowing of the shofar and not a reaction to it? 

    Thank you for such a clear elucidation of this sicha. Of course, no pressure to respond. 

    You explained this morning how when something is a reflection your truest self, it’s actually not even a choice (if I understood correctly). I don’t think I ‘choose’ to come learn. There’s just something deep inside that knows that this is what I have been searching for my whole life. 

    You’ve opened my mind and soul to a reality and consciousness that I didn’t have access to, or maybe to be more  honest, dismissed - because I could not relate or understand it.

    It is simply changing my life. I don’t know how else to express it. 
    So thank YOU again and again - for the gift and privilege. 
    May you be blessed. 

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      Isaac -3 years ago

      Yes this is a very very good insight. (Though sometimes we do say that the very resolution to do a mitzvah is deemed as it was done already; a positive thought, say the sages, Hashem considered as done!)

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  • Anonymous -3 years ago

    Technical difficulty.  Out of sinc, although wonderful shuir, as usual.  

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  • Anonymous -3 years ago

    doesnt rambam in hilchos teshuva also mention prati  ויעזוב כל אחד מכם דרכו הרעה ומחשבתו אשר לא טובה the same lashon of darko raah

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  • Anonymous -3 years ago

    WHy is the remez in mikvaos not in hilchos teshuva if remez is above the mitzva etc?

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Chassidus: Likkutei Sichos Rosh Hashanah #3

Rabbi YY Jacobson

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Dedicated by Chaim Block in loving memory of his parents, Leah bas Eliyhau Nachum - Yarzteit 25 Elul,  Yitzchok Leib ben Chaim Aaron - Yartzeit 14 Tishrei

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