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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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This is the fourth of a series of text-based classes on a maamar, Chassidic discourse, by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, "Reishs Goyim Amalek," presented at the Farbrengen of Tuesday, 14 Adar, Purim 5715, March 8, 1955.

This class was presented on Thursday, Parshas Tetzaveh, 13 Adar I, 5784, February 22, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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Anonymous -7 months ago
I love this with my nefesh and my neshama. Thankyou Rabbi YY
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Anonymous -7 months ago
A question for the Rav
Listening to the shiur, I learned how important it is to be in touch with our animal soul and how important it is not to ignore it. It seems that you can't truly understand yourself as a Jew and connect to Hashem without fully understanding the languge and DNA of our own specific animal soul, with all of its layers.

Therefore, if it's so integral to be in touch with our animal soul so that we can truly understand who we are and have a true path to our divine soul/conciousness, how can it be that so many holy & sincere jews, myself included before listening to this shiur, think that the Guf is Tofel and is just in the way of my soul and the more I ignore it the closer to Hashem I can become.It seems that our only true entrance into Avodas Hashem is by understanding our inner animal and training it to be led by the divine soul, which is a lifetime project and requires a tremendous amount of pateinece and entering in to our lowest places, where by the other model in Avodas Hashem it would all be ignored.How could such the opposite extreme be a model in serving G-d - based of what the Rav explained, it cannot work.

Another question - as the Rav said, the Rav gives mashalim in shiruim to talk to the animal soul, not our divine souls because it knows all of this from Shamayim before we were sent down on our missions - it's the work of our animal souls to "get the message". How can we connect to Limud HaTorah in this way? As geshmak a daf of Gemara can be, I don't see how it can further this goal of understanding my inner animal and having my soul shine. How is our learning helping us accomplish this goal of being Mezakeich our animalistic tenencies and have our inner light shine through our guf? How can I be excited to open up a Gemara, Rambam, Shulchan Aruch where I feel that I am getting to the depths of who I am from this learning? It seems to me that I only get that tremendously deep geshmak from learning relevant ideas in psychology or the Rav's shiurim :)

I am a huge fan of all of the Rav's shiruim and I have a tremendous amount of Hakaras HaTov for opening up the light of Chabad chassidus that without the Rav's biurim would not be possible. thank you for enriching my life! I am looking forward to the Rav's response and future shiurim.
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Aron jaffe -8 months ago
Wow the story with the boy with ADHD listening to your shiur is how I feel listening to your shiurim and this shiur blew me away entirely

Thank you so much and much success
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Anonymous -8 months ago
Reptilian Brain/Amygdala
Reptilian Brain/Amygdala

Is this based on the theory that man is created by a series of evolutionary processes from the big bang till billions of years later developed into man via evolution?
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