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When the Impossible Becomes Possible: Finding G-d's Miracles in Every Challenge with Dr. Miriam Menaker · Tehillim for the Soul with Dr. Miriam Menaker

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  No one see them.
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  I experienced that with a few people already.
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  So we have to feel that I am here.
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  I am a soul.
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  I have values, I am good.
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  And, and everything that happened to me is only an experience to grow and never is an experience to put me down.
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  Wonderful.
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  So we continue.
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  I wanted to go a little bit to remind you about the messages of the Psalms.
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  And the Psalms 26 is telling about David asking Hashem to test him like our forefathers we have to understand what means a test.
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  What are the obstacles that we can encounter in our life, and how to get over the obstacles, and how not to be entangled in the obstacle and live the moment, live the situation, and know how to react like those people of, in airplane the one hundred and eighty people part of this, extraordinary journey between life and death So being between life and death is an experience that we never will forgive, Life is extraordinary.
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  This psalm explain what is a test.
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  So test, sometime the tests are difficult to undergo, and depend how we see the test, how we see the situation in front of us at the moment that we are living.
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  I could be in a moment of danger, but depending of how I react, how I see the moment, I will be able to overcome obstacles.
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  So Hashem put in front of us obstacles in order to strengthen our immune spiritually muscle.
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  The same way that we have muscle we go to the gym, we walk, we strengthen them the same way Hashem give us situation in life in order to strengthen us and make us strong and know how to overcome this.
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  Hashem doesn't bring obstacles in order to put us down.
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  Is only to put us up.
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  And one example in history, in the Bible, is what happened with Yosef.
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  Yosef, he was tempted by the wife of Potiphar, he was able to resist the temptation.
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  And when he was able to resist the temptation He reached the level of being a tzadik.
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  That is the moment that we call him Yosef HaTzadik.
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  There is two ways to behave in front of a situation, or we try to bur- our head on the sand like an ostrich, or we open our eyes, observe the situation, see what are the challenge.
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  And through see what are the challenge, we find the tools necessary to overcome the challenge.
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  There is another type of bird that make contrary action of the ostrich.
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  Is a bird that, shows his teeth, And is ready to fight.
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  So this is the way that every Jew has to be.
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  We are fighters.
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  Ca- more that, that when in the interview of the man that enter, to hold the terrorist and take responsibility.
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  And he didn't know anything.
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  He was a plumber.
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  He was not a pilot, so he, without thinking, he only took the command"Okay," like in a car, if something is falling down, let's move back.
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  Let's move back to change the position of the, head of the,, airplane.
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  And beside that, okay, it's a miracle.
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  That's true.
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  But is he says that we are a nation of lion.
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  And the woman, there were woman there, they were saying Tehillim.
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  There were The kids, were quiet.
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  They compose themself.
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  So imagine what that's mean and how a miracle like that we, they were able to land in safety even though that the aircraft was damaged, but they were able to make all the management in order to survive.
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  And we can apply that in our life.
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  This is a test that Hashem gave us and gave to the 100 people.
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  So this is what we learn from this Psalm.
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  But the Psalm always try to create a balance.
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  We have to be,, strong, but not to overestimate our capacity.
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  That is another point.
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  If we want to overcome situation, don't overestimate that you that your ego will flow up.
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  We have to understand also our limitation in life.
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  Not only we have to be, strong, but also we have to understand how much I can go?
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  What is my turn in, what will be my mission in this situation?
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  What is my mission in life?
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  So we have to create always a balance.
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  Being strong, being lion, lioness, but at the same time to know that Ein od milvado, there is not other in the world than Hashem.
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  So Hashem is the one that control everything that exists in the world, that has to be our main mission, our main perspective.
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  And we see this miracle when the Jews were leaving Egypt, and they needing to cross the, Nile River.
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  So it was the river in front, the army of the Egyptian behind, but they, few of them, two or three men, they decided,"No, Hashem is with us," and they start to walk inside, in the water, in the sea, and the waters split.
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  So Hashem is there always for us.
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  Hashem is always with us when we are ready, and we want to follow His rule and His commandment, His instruction.
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  Because the instruction of Hashem are the one that keep us, strong, keep us standing in the right position.
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  No too much to the right, not too much to the left, only we have to see Hashem in front of us constantly, and that is the message of this Psalm 26 In the Psalm, the following Psalm is the Psalm 27.
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  And as you remember, the Psalm 27 is the Psalm that we read from Rosh Chodesh Elul till Hoshana Rabbah.
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  So this is the Psalm that we add, we added through those days that we were between Elul and these holidays.
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  So we have to understand this Psalm too.
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  And this is Psalm that opens with a luminous idea, Adonai ori veishi.
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  This God is my light, and He is my savior.
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  So that is the other commandment that we have and we learn from this psalm.
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  Always the light of Hashem is in front of me.
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  And when I have complete trust and complete faith in Hashem, every danger will be dissolved.
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  So we have to be from one side as strong and from another side vulnerable, because to be vulnerable is also very important.
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  Everything in life has two sides, a positive and a negative.
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  To be vulnerable means to know your place, to know your abilities, to know how to move forward.
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  When we know how to move forward and we can balance a strength and weakness, we are always on top.
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  But when we understand that Hashem...
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  is always with us, and His light surrounds us completely.
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  So that is the message of the Psalm 27, that is, when they say that Hashem is my life, refers to the light and the sounds of Rosh Hashanah, the shofar.
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  Speak about the shofar, and speak also that Hashem is my shelter.
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  Hashem protect me, this is, the idea of the Sukkah, the idea, of the Arba Minim, the four species.
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  That is strange.
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  If you see from outside, when I was traveling to, Arizona and I passed through the security, the people at the security, they don't understand what these big things that you have in your hands.
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  Why are you carrying a, a plants in your hands?
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  So it's a very strange way to connect with all the existence of the world, with our plant kingdom.
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  This is how I connect, and I connect with it, and then I shake it.
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  And I shake in the six direction.
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  I shake it up, to the right, to the left, front, up, down, left, and back.
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  So I am creating a, a, a vibration around me, and this vibration around me are reaching every place that exists in the whole universe.
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  at the same time that we are very minuscule, I cannot see myself if I will see myself from a aircraft.
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  But each of us, we are very powerful.
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  We have the power that Hashem implants in us, in our soul.
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  So our soul is a very important our soul is what give us life, and our soul is a part of Hashem.
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  So Hashem is with us constantly, and we see that.
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  So there is no fear.
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  So when we have that in front of us, despite all the negativity that we can confront, but we know that negativity is only a step forward to grow spiritually.
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  So that is Psalm 27.
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  Then we move to the other psalm, the Psalm, 28.
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  Psalm 28, is asking Hashem to listen to us So here, it is a psalm that says, that begins as a vehement prayer for God's help and concludes with the psalmist's expression of gratitude for his salvation.
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  So we call Hashem.
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  Don't disregard your prayers are not listened.
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  Your every pray of a Jew is listened by Hakadosh Baruch Hu.
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  He listen to us., And we create constantly energies around us.
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  What we call angels.
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  Angels are energies.
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  So that are the energies that we create with our action.
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  If the action are negative, we create negative angels.
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  If they are positive, we create positive energy.
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  And when all those positive energy that we create are the positive angels that walk with us through our journey in life.
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  So being understanding this, integrate this inside us, that's why we have Shemini Atzeret.
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  Shemini Atzeret in Hebrew, Atzeret means gathering.
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  So it's an integration of everything that we experience through all these holidays.
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  Seeing the moment of asking Teshuvah, for returning to Hashem.
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  This is what Hashem wants for us.
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  What I need to do, I can ask.
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  How I connect with Hashem?
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  Connect with my words.
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  I don't need to know Hebrew in order to connect to Hashem.
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  You can speak to Hashem in every language that you use, the same way that you can talk to the AI and the AI can beautify your words and make that your words that probably has many mistakes, they, turn it in something beautiful and meaningful.
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  So this is the same with our prayers.
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  Hashem listen to our prayers, only need to be with all devotion, with all our heart, with all our kishke.
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  What is kishke?
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  In Yiddish, kishke means viscera when we experience something, it's not an experience that we do through our intellect.
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  Intellect we use when we learn.
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  But what is experience?
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  Experience is something visceral, something that we can be in a situation and our heart can beat very fast.
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  We know how to control.
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  Everything is to know how to control our and thousand of thought that comes and rush in our mind.
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  And generally, they are scattered.
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  They go to every place.
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  So we want to join everything.
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  We want to gather them.
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  We want to control, and the way to control is not easy, but is to see, observe, watching, and then when we watch, when we observe, we can move on.
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  Also, the number twenty-eight means koach.
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  Koach means power And say the Psalm by David to you, Lord, I call my rock.
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  Rock means my strength.
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  Do not be deaf to me.
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  Don't by ignoring my plea.
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  For if you are silent, I will be like those descending into the pit., David, is the representation, is the manifestation, is the reflection of our every human being.
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  He's continue,"Hear my pleas when I cry to you for help.
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  When I raise my hand toward your holy sanctuary." Means this is when we pray, we turn our head to the east where Yerushalayim is located, and from there to the Beit Hamikdash.
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  We don't need- new Beit Hamikdash, the Beit Hamikdash is us.
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  We have a temple inside us.
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  Our temple extend to our home.
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  Our temple extends to our family.
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  That is my temple.
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  We have a, we are family that is a part of a reunion, husband and wife, children, and parents.
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  And then we have a community, and the community expand to a whole world.
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  So when we are, we show our gratitude to Hashem, Hashem show his kindness towards us.
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  So this is the Psalm, 28., God is not only a father.
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  God is a king.
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  So a king is the one that judge.
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  A king is the representation of the power, but is a power of kindness.
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  Hashem only want us, bring us down here in order that we will get a stronger in this world.
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  That we do Teshuvah, that we rectify ourself, and this is the moment.
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  Already we rectify ourself.
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  We did Teshuvah.
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  We cry in Yom Kippur.
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  Hashem clean us.
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  We heard the sounds of the shofar.
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  We went inside the sukkah, and finally we reached the level of holding a Sefer Torah in our hands, to embrace a Sefer Torah that is like to embrace God himself in our hands.
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  The Torah is everything.
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  It's the wisdom of Hashem, is the word of God.
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  So finally we embrace it, embrace the Sefer Torah, and now we are ready.
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  This coming Shabbat is a Shabbat where we bless the new month, the month of Cheshvan, and we start over.
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  Now is when the Torah says,"Yaakov went in his way." Yaakov mean Israel went in his way.
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  We are ready now to start a new page in our life, a new journey with so many experience, with so many ideas, with love that and then comes the Psalm 29, and the Psalm 29 says the 29 says, it's a hymn about God's greatness and his revelation in the world, in which each different kind of revelation is termed the voice of the Lord.
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  It says, Mizmor leDavid and says,"Ahu ladonai k'vod shemo," means when give to the Lord glory to his name, the Lord is holy splendor.
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  Is kavod.
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  The voice of the Lord is on the waters.
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  God of glory thunders.
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  The Lord is heard upon surging waters.
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  The Lord was, heard in Shamayim, in the heavens, and that what happened with the airplane.
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  go- the kol Hashem b'koach, the voice of the Lord is mighty and majestic The voice of the Lord in its might breaks cedars and the s- that are strong trees.
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  The Lord spla- splinters the cedars of Lebanon.
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  The voice of God breaks every wall, breaks any- anything that is logical, and is showing us that, there is something that transcend, is above.
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  He makes them skip like calves, means that Hashem, is a Psalm that is the Psalm 117, and is one of the shortest Psalm that we have.
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  Alelu says, praise the nation, God praised Am Yisrael.
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  So is a, a, ri- in not understandable, words, and the sages make arguments about this Psalm, because why is using that the nation are recognizing Hashem?
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  This is what, this is the reason that we have Am Yisrael in this world.
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  This is the reason that we are here.
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  We are here to teach the whole world who is God, that Hashem is here, and He is the king of the world.
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  He is the one that created this world to bring down His presence, His glory down here in the physical world.
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  And I said before, we are the messengers of God, and Israel is the one that received the Torah.
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  And the Torah now is not only for the Jews.
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  The Torah is for the whole nation of the world.
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  And this event that happened, that appear in every media, in every place, everyone is talking about this miracle of the airplane, to open not only our eyes, but to open the eyes of the nations and recognize the greatness of Hakadosh Baruch Hu.
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  So this is, what I have for today So now I will give the word to Julie, So if I could sum up Psalm 29, is it one plus one can equal three?
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  Beautiful.
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  Okay You have something more to say?
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  Hold on one second.
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  That's just really powerful.
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  Hold on.
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  I just wanna write that in my book.
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  Okay, I have...
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  Yes.
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  okay Which I find fascinating also is, and we talk about the miracle of the plumber, but we see how God lines up everything for us.
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  He went to plumbing school, okay?
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  So he went to plumbing school, but he was also watching a video- of how a plane can go down is what he was w- watching.
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  So it's not just that he did that.
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  There was preparation before that he did in order to be able to create that.
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  So again, it's that path.
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  It's that we never know where it's gonna lead.
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  But in that moment when he was watching that video, he didn't think anything of it.
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  He was just watching the video, right?
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  But then in that moment, it's like he knew exactly what to do because he had watched that video.
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  Yes.
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  So that is, that again, is very, very powerful.
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  another message that you brought today, and I think it's really a beautiful message, is that...
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  And I've heard it before, but it's like how you repeated it again today, and it just resonated again.
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  I guess my soul's ready to hear it also, is this that we create the energies.
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  We create the angels that are around us.
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  We decide, are we gonna create positive angels around us, or are we gonna k- create negative energy angels around us?
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  So it's like, how many angels do you want in your life that are really help protecting you?
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  And you really have to really give it a lot of thought when you are engaged with others, and yourself.
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  Really, and yourself, too.
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  So thank you for that.
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  That was absolutely beautiful.
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  I just, I put an asterisk by that.
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  We create the angels.
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  We create the energies, which, of course, that resonates with me so much, about is it gonna be a positive or is it gonna be a negative connection, in that way.
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  yeah, I know and I feel the energies always, but to connect it with the angels is extremely powerful.
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  So thank you for that.
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  Thank you.
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  Vatia, you, do you have something to say?
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  There we go.
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  that was a whole lot.
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  That was quite a bit.
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  one of the things that I was gonna ask or mention, sorry, is that vulnerability I don't necessarily think is a weakness.
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  I think that to be vulnerable you have to have the strength to know that you're, you can fall and Hashem is gonna catch you and to be real and that he is our banner and our refuge, and he is our salvation.
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  And I'd love to learn more about that one plus one equals three thing.
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  So maybe somebody can eventually share that with me.
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  but I so appreciate all that, that was spoken of.
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  I'm gonna have to go back over this and re-listen and see what more I can glean out of it.
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  Thank you so very much for this class today.
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  Thank you.
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  I would like to hear from Renee.
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  You have something to say?
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  I like that Batia asks about the one plus one equals three.
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  I love that.
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  That's Julie's nomenclature.
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  yes.
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  And, if I were to explain it, Batia, in Ju- take Julie's thoughts and explain it, it just means you can't Nothing is preset.
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  One plus one is two is preset.
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  One plus one is three means it's always over and above.
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  You can't just rely on the standard arithmetic.
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  So I love- The impossible.
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  Yeah.
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  The impossible is possible.
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  I love it.
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  Exactly.
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  This is what it means.
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  But the other thing, Miriam, since I've been taking your class, I have just daily, a- and sometimes moment by moment, noticed the miracles in my own life or of people around me.
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  And it's so I- I'm not always aware,'cause I'm preoccupied at times, but I try to stay as aware as I can of the m- minutiae miracles up to the big ones.
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  And, it This class has really brought that out.
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  And today, again, you focused on that.
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  So I give that thought to everyone to recognize the miracles that are happening around us moment by moment.
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  Constantly.
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  Constantly.
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  Constantly.
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  We are not aware of them.
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  But you can be driving and you see miracles in front of you.
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  Yeah.
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  Is, is, is Here what I think that the message that we have in the Shema Yisrael and what the Alter Rebbe pointed in, many times in his writings, he said that we have to live in the now.
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  Hayom, today.
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  And not for the now.
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  There is a difference, in and for.
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  So we have to live in the now.
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  What is now?
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  For example, for us, this moment that we are connecting, this is our now.
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  And we are here in order to- Have a dialogue between you and me, between you, Renee, and, and all of the w- the group that we are here together today.
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  So here today, what w- I want is to shake, like we shake it, the lulav and the etrog.
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  We are here.
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  we are in this moment.
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  Hashem shake us after all the experience that we are living, so that be aware of what is happening.
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  Wake up, my dear friends, and let's do this coming year one step forward.
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  We don't have to make big steps.
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  Baby steps.
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  Baby.
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  Like one after the other, one after the other.
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  Be listening, and be a little bit quiet in your mind from all the scattering thought that comes in, and listen.
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  Listen.
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  One, the suffering of the human are that they feel silence around them.
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  There is many people that they feel that they don't exist, that they are like a, a, l- like air, that they No one see them.
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  I experienced that with a few people already.
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  So we have to feel that I am here.
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  I am a soul.
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  I have values, and I am good.
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  And, and everything that happened to me is only an experience to grow and never is an experience to put me down.
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  I am not down.
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  I am moving on.
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  Life is a continuous movement, is from one step to the other, and that is my message in every class.
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  So I would like to hear Natalie, if Natalie is available I'm available.
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  Okay, my dear Natalie.
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  Tell me, what is your part?
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  I, I've just been thinking about y- you just went through, I don't know, four or five, psalms and I, I, I do Tehillim every day and, and I, it's meaningful and I'm glad I've started doing it.
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  It, I'm finding it just fascinating that you bring meaning to all the psalms and, and, and they're all different, but they're all the s- but they're I hate to s- not all the same, but it, but the theme.
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  It, at the end, they're all different, they all say different things, but at the end of the day what you're saying and what has changed in my life since I've started doing this is the belief in Hashem, the awareness of Hashem.
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  I, I had, b- before taking these classes, before being, I, you know, being at CBT, I, it's not that I didn't believe in God, but I wasn't always conscious.
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  Now, when I'm doing something that I probably shouldn't be doing, I'm, I'm thinking about angels and what am I gonna create?
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  and it all it's all coming.
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  it's a theme.
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  It all comes together.
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  It's all different, but it's all, it's I don't know, different ways of looking at things.
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  but it all comes together and it all has meaning and thank you.
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  It's just- Yes, I like when you, I like when you do, when you do these, these sessions where they're, where you talk about it, the last half a dozen that we just went through so that it re- just brings more meaning rather than the, the in-depth, it, I love doing both.
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  The in-depth ones are great, and then when you bring it all together it, it just y- there's, it's, there's a theme.
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  And it's wonderful.
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  Thank you.
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  That's exactly the idea, that of integration.
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  Correct?
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  So they may be different.
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  Every one has a different message, all the Tehillim, but they are a work, verge, go in a vector.
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  They like a vector that is a flat, a go to the same goal.
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  The goal is the same.
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  And this is what we learn from everything, and this is, this repeat constantly.
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  Only be able to see it and appreciate it.
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  So I continue with the muna tova.
• 34:32
  So excuse me, I like what, Natalie, what you brought to light, and also Renee, Batya, you as well with the v- vulnerability which requires strength, which reminds me of, Proverbs 24:16, which is, says when...
• 34:51
  Hold on.
• 34:52
  "For though the righteous one may fall seven times, he will arise- but the wicked ones will stumble- Yeah through evil." And yes, w- h- hopefully if we fall through our mistakes, we get up.
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  that, I pick myself up, dust myself off and start all over again kind of thing.
• 35:15
  And, and also, what you had mentioned, which, we talked about, I think, the last class about cr- the angels we create with our thoughts and our actions, and it's so important.
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  I...
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  with Perky Abode it says,"My people are all righteous." And so we need to look at each other through the light of the fact that we are all capable of doing good and, doing better.
• 35:44
  and although n- no one is perfect at this moment, we can look into the future where we will be, hopefully in the future.
• 35:56
  Yes.
• 35:57
  Yes, absolutely.
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  Thank you very much, Eve.
• 36:00
  Thank you.
• 36:00
  I would like to hear from Dr.
• 36:02
  Yoon.
• 36:03
  Are you here?
• 36:05
  Yeah, Yes.
• 36:06
  Okay.
• 36:07
  Thank you so much Thank you so much for this wonderful learning session, as always.
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  about Psalm 28, as Miriam, you mentioned about this temple.
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  although we're waiting for our third temple, however, we carry the temple in us, in our body, our home, our shore, and everywhere, really goes beyond physicality of this, this, world.
• 36:30
  it's...
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  We're not bound to a location, but we have access to HaShem that anywhere we are.
• 36:39
  and that alone, it seems like a miracle.
• 36:42
  it goes beyond nature.
• 36:45
  And also, when you mentioned about living at this moment now, presently, now that we're reading, the Genesis and Parashat- reading about the creation again.
• 36:57
  And, some commentary that I read, it says God's speech and for creation is ongoing.
• 37:05
  It's not just only done at the time and created, but the vegetation is still going, and animals are still following HaShem's, commands, and it's every day, like, His creation is ongoing, and His speech is not one time speech, but it's ongoing.
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  So it's like beyond, the time and space, we're living in.
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  It's one plus one is three.
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  it goes beyond the nature.
• 37:37
  so it's just testament, and, w- was wonderful to hear, all of you's comments.
• 37:43
  Thank you.
• 37:45
  My pleasure.
• 37:45
  I don't know, Anita is here in the group?
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  No?
• 37:51
  Who wants, Inka is, are you available?
• 37:54
  I'm available.
• 37:55
  Hi, Inka.
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  Tell me your experience.
• 37:58
  How was your holidays and how you integrate everything that I said today?
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  it's, integration is for me especially, so vital for the positiveness that you bring because, my life has been steeped in negativity and difficulty and, too much unhappiness.
• 38:18
  But, at the same time, I've also come to conclusions that I formulated for myself, whereas I truly believe that we are surrounded by angels all the time, and we're also sur- b- with good thoughts.
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  how many times has it happened that you wish something or think of something and poof, there it is, That's not by accident.
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  That's because we are surrounded by goodness and Hashem.
• 38:41
  And so my life has turned around enormously, for the better, for the more joyous, and, you certainly have elevated it for me, Miriam.
• 38:52
  And, it's just sad that there is so much sorrow in life and so many challenges and so much difficulty, because we're, we are so exuberant and grateful, for not only the actual miracle, but for the representation of the miracle of the airplane, what it represents for us and for the world, and in a much needed time.
• 39:15
  so Hashem is always with us.
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  He doesn't always answer us as we want him to answer it, but he will answer us.
• 39:23
  And, it's gratitude.
• 39:25
  I, the enormity of what Hashem has endowed me and allowed me and has given me, and at the same time also has prevented me from having because, I know I'm blessed and I'm also prevented from having some of the extraordinary difficulties that other people have to face.
• 39:43
  I'm in truly in a wonderful point in my life.
• 39:48
  Wonderful.
• 39:49
  Wonderful.
• 39:49
  Wonderful.
• 39:50
  Okay.
• 39:51
  do you have something more to say or I can go to Amy?
• 39:54
  I, Amy is here.
• 39:57
  I think so.
• 39:58
  Amy, are you there?
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  She put- Amy?
• 40:02
  that she's just listening today.
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  She's just listening?
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  Okay.
• 40:06
  She didn't feel good.
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  She said- No, Amy doesn't feel good she said that she doesn't feel good.
• 40:10
  yes.
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  She didn't feel good.
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  She was just gonna listen.
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  Okay.
• 40:13
  That's what she meant, Amy.
• 40:15
  Okay.
• 40:16
  All right.
• 40:17
  I don't know if, Let's do a, a meditation of reflection.
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  Go inside ourself.
• 40:25
  That is what it is, a meditation.
• 40:27
  To transcend the materiality where we live To elevate ourself spiritually and then at the level of the number three that, that, Julie is saying, the number three is the transcendence, what doesn't have any logic, we can find answers to many of our questions that we can have in ourself.
• 41:00
  So I want that we close our eyes and we breathe We take three breath.
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  One to relax and see ourselves inside a Magen David A Magen David that change the Magen David for the sukkah.
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  And we are inside the sukkah And we feel and experience something in the air.
• 41:36
  We are smelling the beautiful aroma of the etrog and the other leaf, and we feel content, and we are in the sukkah.
• 41:51
  What is the sukkah?
• 41:53
  The sukkah is the place of Hashem that always is there for us.
• 42:01
  We can always go back to the sukkah, and feel Hashem presence.
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  Is to feel him, to feel his holiness, and to feel that we are held in his arms.
• 42:22
  Hashem doesn't have arms, but we feel that there is wings above us, wings inside us.
• 42:31
  We are traveling in the journey of our life, and we are moving around, and for Hashem, everything is linear.
• 42:45
  Is, there is no up and down.
• 42:48
  For us, there is up and down.
• 42:51
  But for Hashem, he sees everything above, like everything is in one picture.
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  There is no difference between the past, the present, or the f- or the future.
• 43:07
  Everything is one, and this is where we are.
• 43:11
  When we feel that we are, when we are mindful, and we can connect with our friends, connect with the external world, and mostly here is to connect with God.
• 43:29
  We have a relationship, very close relationship.
• 43:34
  Because we are part of Hashem.
• 43:37
  We have a neshamah, and we feel this in our breath.
• 43:44
  Our breath comes from the word neshamah, that has, is neshamah, is breath.
• 43:53
  We are breathing.
• 43:55
  We are alive.
• 43:57
  We feel our She- Hashem inside us, and we are floating, every one of us, in this dimension.
• 44:08
  The dimension that is above materiality, and in this dimension, we are going to bring the dimension of Hashem down here in our daily life And how we bring Hashem in our daily life is being connected, not only with Hashem.
• 44:35
  Is being connected you, between you and between all human beings.
• 44:44
  Because when we connect with all our humanity, when we can hold our hands and go around and feel the light of Hashem around us, penetrating our brain, entering our, into our heart, and stabilizing in our liver, and then going back to our emotion, to our thought, back between emotion and thought, between heart, brain, heart, brain, heart, brain, heart, brain, we create an energy that is an energy that is above consciousness.
• 45:29
  It's an energy of Hashem.
• 45:32
  And what this energy does, it illuminates.
• 45:36
  it bring us in an estate of a perfection, in an estate of Shalom, in an estate that we feel that we have all the powers in order to overcome any difficulties, any situation, and everything will be a year of blessing, a year of Simcha, a year of s- happiness, a year of redemption, a complete redemption.
• 46:14
  A- And we will see clear and reveal the presence of Hashem, and He will send us His M- Moshiach that is already here, and is already giving our di- the direction.
• 46:34
  We don't know who he is, but is here.
• 46:38
  And we are part of Moshiach.
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  Not only Moshiach is external.
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  Moshiach is in us.
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  Is me, Moshiach.
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  I am my own redemptor.
• 46:52
  I am my own Cap, a, a strength that he is going to give me all the abilities that I have, and understand the abilities of all the people that are around me, that my eyes are going to see the reality in, with the colors and the shape of the real reality.
• 47:23
  Is not a distortion.
• 47:25
  There is no distortion of life.
• 47:28
  Only is light.
• 47:30
  and our next holiday will be the holiday of Hanukkah.
• 47:36
  So in the holiday of Hanukkah, we are going to see the light materialize in front of our eyes.
• 47:46
  And we together, united as a whole unity, loving each other, having gratitude to Hashem, being positive and not judging, only being positive, and be there for your fellow Jew or fellow human being.
• 48:08
  Don't let anybody to fall.
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  Hold everyone with you, and be very strong, very firm, and walk with your head up, with your eyes connecting with the light of Hashem.
• 48:29
  And thank you, Hashem, for allow me to be here today, and thank you, my dear friends, for al- allow me to talk today.
• 48:42
  Have a wonderful journey, a wonderful life.
• 48:48
  And we will be united as sisters, no friends, but more as sister, because we are Bat Yisrael.
• 48:58
  We are sisters, and we have to hold one with the other.
• 49:03
  Thank you Okay.
• 49:05
  Julie, you are, s- I see that you are up.
• 49:10
  Okay.
• 49:10
  So, ho- tell me what are you, you comments about everything.
• 49:18
  So- I don't limit you.
• 49:19
  You can say whatever comes to your mind it doesn't happen very o- it, I want it, it doesn't happen as often as I would love it to happen, but today it did happen, that when I can get so deep into a meditation, I can feel the spiral of energy in my body, and I felt that energy going from my heart, brain, heart, brain.
• 49:41
  and I really envisioned Years ago, we used to have a really big sukkah because we had the space for it.
• 49:49
  But when we downsized, we didn't, so we created a little more intimate s- sukkah where it's, only six people can really fit in it, like a round table, which it's just absolutely lovely.
• 50:00
  It's very intimate in that way, and I could see myself, when you were talking about that s- being in that sukkah, in that very intimate feeling in, with Hashem.
• 50:12
  So that was absolutely beautiful.
• 50:14
  Just beautiful.
• 50:15
  So now I take that with me.
• 50:18
  at any time, I can go back into that intimate sukkah because, it's down now and it's oh, But no, I can carry it with me throughout the whole year and go back to it and really feel that energy that I felt in that moment, that spiral of that energy that, oh, it's just the best feeling.
• 50:37
  Going from heart, brain, heart, brain, and really connecting in that way.
• 50:42
  So thank you very much for that.
• 50:44
  Thank you.
• 50:44
  Thank you very much.