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What Determines How Long We Live? How Many Times I Need to Say Shema

The Animal Soul Also Lives for Eternity

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This class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Behaaloscha, 15 Sivan, 5782, June 14, 2022, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago
We say Krias Shema twice daily
Why then also at other times, like Yom Kippur, taking out a sefer Torah, on the cusp of death, etc.?
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Heather Steinhoff -2 years ago
Good morning and thank you.
Good morning and thank you Rabbi Jacobson.
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Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago
A wild horse is full of power, uncontrolled
But it's power isn't harnessed for good.

The bucking bronco must be broken. Broken, but not killed. A dead horse is useless. But a horse that's broken and tamed, i.e., harnessed can now be ridden on, hitched to a wagon, etc. We sublimate but do not destroy
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Sara -2 years ago
We don't want to extinguish someone's fire ...
Another paradox. A fine line between what to do, how to behave and what not to do and how not to behave.
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Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago
Kriah Shema determines quality and quantity of life
What then, of the 85% of yidden who know not of Kriah Shema?
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Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago
The entropy principle applies across the board
Hashem must continue to will the world into existence. We must constantly breathe and eat or we die. A marriage must constantly be infused.

And we must repeat Shema and other tefillos or we "entropize".
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Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago
Every person has a certain amount of "horsepower "
A yid has extra horsepower. If used towards Torah and Mitzvos, good. If not that horsepower goes towards other pursuits. Therefore yidden Excell in every field, science, the arts, money making, politics, even crime!
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Anonymous -2 years ago
Could you please make the sound louder, Thank you.
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Elka -2 years ago
Question for Rabbi YY
Where is the class today, not working on the site:*?
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