Chassidus: Likkutei Torah Tiku Bachodesh #4
Rabbi YY Jacobson
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This class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Ki Savo, 17 Elul, 5782, September 13, 2022, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.
Chassidus: Likkutei Torah Tiku Bachodesh #4
Rabbi YY Jacobson
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Anonymous -2 years ago
Hashem desires constant nonstop lifelong teshuva
Teshuva as a way of life. Never resting or satisfied.
Why?
Suppose Hashem had created people who are perfect, or even who could reach perfection and rest there. That would be akin to robots or angels with no free will or yetzer Hora.
Rather, Hashem desired people to constantly fall and rise and fall again and rise again. This system best exemplifies true free will and battling--and defeating-the yetzer He planted within us.
This constant fall and rise, constant state of teshuva is what distinguishes man from angels and robots. This is the purpose of Creation.
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Kj -2 years ago
When you reach that place with Gd, it is as if nothing of evil ever happened!
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Anonymous -2 years ago
Rotzon/will is higher than intellect/reason
And if you explain WHY you want something, then that's not what you want, or even the real reason. The real reason is pyre unadulterated desire. Simple desire with no reason or explanation. Kids embody this in purity and simplicity. Adults dress up desire with logic, intellect and reason precisely BECAUSE they can't simply say: "i want it because I want it" witn no reasons.
And so Dr Lamm says that he has finally reached the center, the real driving force of a patient when they say "just because I want it" with no reasons, explanations, or logic.
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Kj -2 years ago
This is why what looks like sin to a person of flesh is not sin to the person of Eden touching Gd through the same act!
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Kj -2 years ago
Only when the Eden of self-conception is broken, will we seek the Eden of Gd!
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Kj -2 years ago
This is why lower level people must be careful what the demand of others!
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Kj -2 years ago
If you understand, it ceases to be of Gd!
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Kj -2 years ago
When did Gd ever use a person who understood, only those who hear and obey!
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Anonymous -2 years ago
How to really honor and respect your parents as we should
By doing what they say and desire.
"Imitatio Deus" = reflection of Hashem
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Anonymous -2 years ago
Good and evil ate mixed
Ever since the "chait aitz hadaas", the first sin
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Kj -2 years ago
The purpose of Gd is to recreate Eden in the heart of a person!
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Kj -2 years ago
Gd only gives you what He can use through you.
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Anonymous -2 years ago
Sounds manipulative
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Kj -2 years ago
Gd deals with the person where they are -- deep surgery is often required to remove cancer!
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Sara -2 years ago
Paradox after paradox after paradox
Good has evil in it and evil has good in it. We never know where our inspiration comes from..unexpected places. Ahaa!
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