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  David Youshaei -3 years ago

  Can you post the 4th shout on this vayeshev class please 

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• Anonymous -3 years ago

  The rabbi shows us the relevance of chasidus to our lives 

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  Emcee -3 years ago

  Question for Rabbi YY

  Why is it that punishments in the Torah, and the outcome is really what Hashem had planned, Eg, Moshe hitting the rock, really Hashem didn't want him to go to EY, Odom eating from Eitz hadaas, Hashem really wanted it to be golus first and not a world of Gan Eden etc

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  Kj -3 years ago

  If GD keeps you in that place of discontent, it is His will.  GD has to will you further as well, or it is all flesh in Gd's name!

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    Francine Joy Allen -3 years ago

    The Rebbe has some good advice in the personal level, but words like "Discontent" or pain don't even begin to describe the trauma the world - people whom we could see as our brothers and sisters- experiences: whether through pandemics like COVID-19, wars, famine, climate change, all kinds of bigotry leading to atrocities whether the murder of George Floyd or Emmet Till, the Trail of Tears, the Rohynga persecution in Myanmar, and,  of course, the Holocaust.  People who are murdered or facing death from the conditions they face, like disease or starvation don't generally get closer to Hashem - unless perhaps there's this possibility in the afterlife - but my understanding is that Judaism teaches an emphasis of Tikkun Olam, healing here on Earth

    So I guess it's up to those of us who are privileged enough to have the merchant's money to "squander" to spend our time, money, and effort to help those who suffer through no fault of their own.   That's the only answer I can come up with, and it's hard for one person to do much, but as our sage Hillel said "neither are we free to abstain from our part" (it's a paraphrase,  I know).  

    So do you have thoughts on how Tikkun Olam might fit into all the death, the lost good potential of so many lives - things that the people who suffered this doom can never get back?

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  Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago

  R. Akiva himself started out ignorant but then

  Realizing the emes, Ike all "bts", grasped the Torah, becoming the greatest sage of the time.

  Then he lost all 24,000 Talmidim.  Quite the fall.

  Undaunted, he then went on to restart with the famous 5 talmidim from which our mesorah derives. 

  So he knew well the rise and fall and rise inherent in both the macro of history and the micro of each of us 

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