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  Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson -10 months ago

  מכתב הבעל שם טוב

  לשון אגרת הבעל שם טוב:

  "עליתי מדרגה אחר מדרגה עד שנכנסתי להיכל משיח ששם לומד משיח תורה עם כל התנאים והצדיקים וגם עם שבעה רועים, ושם ראיתי שמחה גדולה עד מאוד, ואיני יודע לשמחה זו מה הוא עושה, והייתי סובר שהשמחה זו חס ושלום על פטירתי מהעולם הזה והודיעו לי אחר כך שאיני נפטר עדיין כי הנאה להם למעלה כשאני מייחד יחודים למטה על ידי תורותיהם הקדושה, אבל מהות השמחה אינו יודע עד היום הזה. ושאלתי את פי משיח אימת אתי מר והשיב לי בזאת תדע בעת שיתפרסם למודך ויתגלה בעולם ויפוצו מעינותך חוצה מה שלימדתי אותך והשגת, ויוכלו גם המה לעשות יחודים ועליות כמוך ואז יכלו כל הקליפות ויהי' עת רצון וישועה.

  "ותמהתי על זה והיה לי צער גדול באריכות הזמן כל כך מתי זה אפשר להיות, אך ממה שלמדתי בהיותי שם, שלשה דברים סגולות, ושלשה שמות הקדושים, והם בנקל ללמוד ולפרוש, ונתקרר דעתי וחשבתי אפשר על ידי זה יוכלו גם כן אנשי גילי לבוא למדרגה ובחינה כמותי, דהיינו בהיותם יכולים לעליות נשמות וילמדו וישיבו כמו אני, ולא נתנה רשות כל ימי חיי לגלות זאת, ובקשתי עבורך ללמוד אותך ולא הורשתי כלל, ומושבע ועומד אני על זה".

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  Had -10 months ago

  In Yiddishkeit, understanding is not the

  Ultimate. One must absorb Yiddishkeit and BE a yid, exemplify what a yid must do and be. 

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  Had -10 months ago

  If there was no Amalek, if there were no

  Challenges,  tests, yetzer Hora,  etc., then life would be too easy. The whole concept of free will requires a duality, a test between good and bad.

  If there was no Gaza war, the soldier could not have gone into the booby trapped building first ahead of his commander. No test. No reward. 

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  Had -10 months ago

  "Is the Tanna responsible for the bird

  That got burnt as it flew over the fire that came from the learning?" 

  Simple question to the Litvack. The bird is ownerless, so he's not liable for damages! Speak to the Litvack (or anyone) on his level. 

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  Had -10 months ago

  How could the.IDF soldiers volunteer

  To "go into" a potentially booby trapped building first before the other?

  They realize that they are all part of one body. If one hand is being threatened by a trap, by an animal,  etc., will not the other hand try to rescue his mate? We are all part of one Jewish body. 

  As with many things that are hard to understand,  we must take the BROAD AND LONG and DEEP perspective.  Look at the whole picture,  the whole world, the entire nation,  all of history, this and the next world, etc. The wide and long and deep perspective will change our perception of the narrow, limited temporal understanding 

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  Had -10 months ago

  "How do I know I exist?"

  Right.  Maybe we are just Artificial Intelligence of a Higher Being, the One who created our robotic bodies with AI! 

    

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  Elizabeth -10 months ago

  Question for Rabbi YY

  Is it significant or coincidence that the word “queen” in Hebrew means “the word” when read backwards?

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    Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson -10 months ago

    what do you mean? please explain? מלכה?

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  Had -10 months ago

  Amalek was the first to attack, to cool off

  The new nation of yidden. Notice though that the yidden, as a new nation were likewise rhe first to exemplify kedusha and G-dliness. This first came to "balance" that first.

  So roo, Adam and Chava were the first to exemplify G-dliness, (not as a nation), and the snake, also with chutzpah and gaavah to challenge and fight the G-dliness of Adam and Chava.

  In a way, just like we have a yetzer tov and a yetzer Hora, the yidden are the yetzer tov of the world (which explains never ending anti-semitism) and Amalek is the yetzer Hora of the world.  

  Hashem seems to desire this internal and world wide opposition of forces, and not have it all one sided and therefore no.challenge. 

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Maamar Reishis Goyim Purim 5715 #1

Rabbi YY Jacobson

• February 12, 2024
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Classes in this Series

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  2 hr 4 min

  Maamar Reishis Goyim Purim 5715 #9

  At the Core of All Dysfunction There’s an Irrational Belief

  Once I Confront the Inner Self-Destructive Voice, I Can Begin to Sublimate My Emotions

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  1 hr 48 min

  Maamar Reishis Goyim Purim 5715 #8

  How Do I Know Chassidus Is True?

  When You Touch Your Yechida — Everything Becomes One

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  1 hr 48 min

  Maamar Reishis Goyim Purim 5715 #7

  Yechida — Where All Our Struggles Converge Into Oneness

  At the Core of the Soul, There Is No Opposition

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  1 hr 27 min

  Maamar Reishis Goyim Purim 5715 #6

  By Performing a "Code Review" of My Brain's Patterns, I can Evolve rather than Repeat

  Don't Reject the Divine Code Behind Your Emotions and Thoughts

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  1 hr 20 min

  Maamar Reishis Goyim Purim 5715 #5

  If G-d Is Everything, Why Do I Have So Many Triggers? Understanding the "Order of Spiritual Devolution"

  Why Does Kabbalah and Chassidus “Dichotomize” G-d? So That We Can Integrate All Our Parts

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  2 hr 13 min

  Maamar Reishis Goyim Purim 5715 #4

  How to Talk to Your Animal Soul and Your Body

  Why Do Some of Us Learn for Years but It Does Not Change Us Internally?

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  1 hr 29 min

  Maamar Reishis Goyim Purim 5715 #3

  Is Your Baseline Light or Darkness? Why Did the Rebbe Avoid the Term “Evil?”

  Why So Much Anxiety Today? Understanding Nefesh, Ruach & Neshamah

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  1 hr 33 min

  Maamar Reishis Goyim Purim 5715 #2

  How to Live with an Open Heart

  IFS and the Tanya; The Value of Joy; What Moshiach Wanted From The Baal Shem Tov