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  Victor René Vales Flaquer -2 years ago

  Question for Rabbi YY

  Greetings to all, I will like to know please if Rabbi YY has programs or calsses for non - jewish. Regards, VRVF

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  Michelle -2 years ago

  G-d is the only reality

  Inspirational that we can choose to see everthing on a meaningful and powerful level.

  Thank you,

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  Heather Steinhoff -2 years ago

  Thank you Rabbi.

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  Paula Sevier -2 years ago

  I had a little trouble today keeping up with the words/ needing translation......but am energized nonetheless...thank you for sharing 

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  Paula Sevier -2 years ago

  What is the meaning of that word?

  "Im looking for a ---?

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• Anonymous -2 years ago

  This is truly an Olam Hasheker, a world of falsehood

  The maamer shows that spring water from a living spring is the purest, the best, even purer than rain water. 

  Everyone these days drinks a lot of water, especially spring water. The most popular is "Poland Spring water".

  Yet, the "spring" from which the Poland Spring Water company draws its water to bottle, dried up decades ago and the water they sell as "spring water" is not at all from a spring, despite the OU hechsher! 

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• Anonymous -2 years ago

  If water from a fresh spring is purer even than rain water from the sky

  It would follow that bread from wheat grown in dirt should also be higher than the Mann from heaven. 

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• Anonymous -2 years ago

  We are an "infinite consciousness having a finite experience "

  Just like Hashem. He is the ultimate infinite consciousness (who created and is) having a finite experience (with the world He created, with the others he created to populate that world and with the relationship He has with those others). 

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  Paula Sevier -2 years ago

  I am so grateful for these morning teachings.

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• Anonymous -2 years ago

  The reward of a mitzvah is the mitzvah itself

  And not some later reward.

  Consider the feeling a parent has when giving their baby a first spoon of ice cream. The good feeling the parent has is the "reward" for feeding the child.

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• Anonymous -2 years ago

  The point of the maamer seems to emphasize physical mitzvos

  Especially helping the poor. 

  Why then, is a Mother Teresa type person not considered the highest of the high? 

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• Anonymous -2 years ago

  Some people, including yidden, disdain the physical

  They believe that spiritual heights can only be achieved by spiritual work, by fasting,  meditation, praying, etc. The point in this maamer is that physical mitzvos are necessary as well as spiritual work.

  Notice,  however, that prior to creation Hashem was a purely spiritual entity. There was no physical world, no other beings with whom to have a relationship, no commandments to those others,  etc. 

  I.e. Hashem Himself was not satisfied with the purely spiritual, but wanted a physical world, with physical others and physical mutzvos to do. 

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  Hanny -2 years ago

  Question for Rabbi YY

  I spend hours watching videos and reading the Tanakh because I love doing that. But Why is it so hard to convert to Judaism??

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  • Anonymous -2 years ago

    Imho it requires more than merely reading Torah, or loving Torah. To properly convert requires commitment and action. One must sincerely commit to not only the idea of Torah but to its actual implementation. One must DO what He wants, not only read what He wrote thru His true prophets, and live what He wrote. Shabbos. Kashruth, and proper inter-gender relations are basics.  

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