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Rebbe Nachman story. The clever and simple one · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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So good evening and hopefully welcome to the first of a
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series, potentially of sure. Him on the teachings of rebbe
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nachman. This is this is different.
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This isn't learning in order to know what to do.
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So we're not here to acquire knowledge of how to practice two
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days that we're not being dazzled by.
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Let's look at some ancient religious texts and see how they
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adapt themselves to modern medicine or modern scientific
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theory and bedazzled. By that we're here.
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I don't know. I was thinking one of the right
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words, potentially its to be vulnerable and explain why that
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might be a an appropriate word in a moment to learn to
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understand ourselves through the stories.
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We all read stories for different reasons, other than
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those, who never read and do not Reading literature at all.
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Sometimes we read for escapism, sometimes we read, because we
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want to be inspired by a character.
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We see ourselves or a frustrated version of ourselves.
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And we take tremendous joy and pleasure in to think a character
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in a story do what? We only wished, we could
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accomplish ourselves and live through that character.
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Remember when I was 18 and had been to Poland with Yeshiva,
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they launched a March of the living version for your Shiva
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boys and girls, or they promise to everyone.
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It would be completely separate to the, to the point where one
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stage we had to tell the coach for an hour and a half because
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the others were there and we were until hotel to be in the
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same geographic location as the others.
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Well, I came back to Israel after the past like break,
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someone gave me a book to read and being in the zone of having,
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just been to the camps and being in being impotent, I'll pick it
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up and have a read. But I didn't get much further
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Remembered in the first page because it described a scene
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that I'd been to it made, it was all too, personal reading a book
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describing a scene in in krakov that I don't know, walk through
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the streets. And I didn't want to read that
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book because rather than it being something that was
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separate from my identity, I was now to, to deepen the The story
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so I could see myself and I put the book down and never picked
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it up again. We've been knocking stories, I
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think our little bit like that in that.
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Whereas in a novel The the characters do Express aspects of
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the author's personality and it also can it can explore
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themselves through naughty characters, risky characters,
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brave characters. They might not see that in
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themselves, but want to explore what that means.
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And they create a story where they explore those Concepts
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ribbon, nachman stories, every character in the story, Is us or
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different aspects of us, which is weird because then we reading
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ultimately a very and his stories are written.
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Very strangely, it's not easy reading that the flow of the
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logic goes backwards and forwards and it doesn't Doesn't
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just flow is we're going to try and understand I'll sell through
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a number of stories, but let's do a little bit of background
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ready now, for every Knuckles, not just, you know, this
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folklore costly, it master that he was the only rebbe of the
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breslav hassidim. He want when he died, that's it.
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His followers are known for the ones who jump up and down with
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funny kid pots on their heads, not enough, Mormon, and make
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everyone smile and ride these big Camper vans and they get
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very excited because Happiness Is Fundamental to his eye, his
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world Outlook. They'd sit, they describe about
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him that during the last few years of his life.
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The last four years, he had personal tragedies, he had
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tuberculosis, that would eventually take his life.
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He decided she was desperate to explain his ideas to his
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followers. His dreams, his hopes.
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And he these took the form of stories that he wrote in with a
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number of different stories. They didn't have any Jewish
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content, no one's running off to Devon.
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No one's running off to shawl. No one's put him on to fill in
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or learning a page of gemara that they're just stories about
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the world. But each character is way more
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complicated than just the simple character that you read on the
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page. We've been at home once
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explained that many people would never come close to Hashem with
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obvious instruction. They were too far away to - too
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afraid or too ignorant of religion.
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They would only be brought close to God, in a way that they were
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unaware of very subtly without feeling indoctrinated without
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feeling pressured. And the stories were there to
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bring people in a much more subtle way.
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The student, he disguises fairy tales with Kings and Queens,
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Village villains and Merchants water, castles flying mountains,
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turkeys and spiders, a whole range of various characters.
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There's no official commentary on the stories and its really
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pops. It's also about us finding the
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meaning for ourselves, which is a very odd idea of going to a
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shear and coming away with what did you learn?
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I don't know, it's all about me working out, what was going on,
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so this is a completely different experience to what
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you're used to and I Wanted to do something different because
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we get the information we get the modern and the ancient
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trying to bring them together. Let's learn just for the sense
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of self self exploration for discovering who we are and where
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that Journey takes each. Individual one will literally be
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a personal Odyssey that I can't predict, and no one can predict
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right now. Now the bit of biography, he was
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born in 1772 in measure Bush to rev simcha.
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The son of Rob nachman horrid Anka who was on the leading
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pupils of the Baal Shem, Tov and figure the daughter of Adele,
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who was the daughter of the Baal Shem.
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Tov, so enough, my ends up being the grandson of the Baal Shem.
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Tov. He was born in the very house
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where his legendary great-grandfather Baal Shem, Tov
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had lived rebbe nachman. His mother figure was known as a
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faggot, the prophet ass because she used to see her grow.
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Her grandfather, the Baal Shem, Tov, and other holy ancestors.
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Either take that or leave it to you as a legend.
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They don't say that about every woman in history, every man.
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So, the question is not, whether it's absolutely true and tons of
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can you prove it scientifically doesn't make sense rationally,
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but if they're saying it about her and not about anybody, And
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there was something about her that made people think that she
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was spiritual enough. Holy enough connected enough, to
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an earlier generation, that allowed her to see visions.
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That no one else seemed to have seen.
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Remove the breast love in 1802. And this was really cute.
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The pastor says, in the, in the profits, I'm going to remove the
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heart of stones that cold disconnected.
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No passion form of living from within you and I give you a
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heart of Flesh eleve bus are, which have the same letters as
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brass Slough. And he saw a very deep meaning
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and revealing the inner truth, the inner world, the spiritual
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the holy, the purpose of everything that pulsating.
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Heart of Flesh in the place of breadth of, which is why he
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wanted to go that he passed away on the third day of soccer.
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So the third day of color modes, hookers, he left the world
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doesn't little bit of biography at first, I printed up weíre,
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going to learn something together tonight and then we're
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going to get to the story, but the story is going to take many
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weeks. It's a long story.
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So we're going to then at each of ribbon up and I put it in
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passed around that way. Please, I did, I put the, I
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brought the Hebrew. Sometimes it's nice.
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Just to hear the words. But subject to hear the
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originals, not about us a reading all, but understanding
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what we're looking at tonight. Its Simplicity.
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We're going to we're going to shout the illusion that you're
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only worthwhile. If you are the top of the class
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if you are the intellect if you are mr.
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Or mrs. Sophisticated we've been a
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command is get is teaching us here to to embrace Simplicity
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something and being simple. Now, not simple as in, you don't
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know anything simple, but I think simple and authentic is
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really, really important. This is what he said this.
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Liquid team are on our the collection of his teachings and
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the story that we're going to learn is actually called, but
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it's called. It's called The Garden of
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wisdom. And it's the tale of the clever,
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one and a simple one. If you don't sit.
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It's brilliant, isn't it? Okay.
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So, you're exempt from the next series of you would wanna hear
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the story again came by default, it's okay.
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I'm teaching it using what we'll find out interpretation because
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will open out for discussion over the weeks and see what
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people how you understand, what their the frequency that's going
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to everyone will pick up in their own, their own mind, their
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own soul and the teachings of Rabbi Shalom.
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Irish who Tip don't always answer phone calls from Israel
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from people that get excited that you speak of ripped.
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So, I've become buddies. Now, we just whole breast love
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group in Israel and I'm probably doing the podcast live on
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Sunday. We will show them our Ash who's
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a big leading. Breed does it on Instagram live
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and they do one with English questions.
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I don't know the details. Once that happens, they film it
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first then release that they want me to ask questions on a
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mono. So if you've got any questions,
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send them to me because that should be something I'm going to
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explore. So please just text me questions
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and I'll put them live to the One of the leading breslev
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thinkers in the world today and he's interpreted the garden of a
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money. I wanted to pick up that book,
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it's a rabbi. So we're using his teachers but
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this is rebbe nachman as rebbe nachman says, as follows.
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It car had tacos for hush lemurs who the ultimate goal and
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Perfection is La vache in Batumi, most gamma to serve god
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with absolute Simplicity. Now, the word to me most liked,
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um, don't want to freak anybody out with early thoughts of
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pesach on the for children, become the Wise, One, The Rush
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of the tub and she and early shoulders were sore trigger off
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mad dashes to cleaning and shopping and whatever but Tom
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doesn't know how God has done today.
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Do us a disservice they draw. This character, some sort of do
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fish marrow that doesn't quite know how to get his clothes on.
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Someone's a bit of a clown in the classroom, but a tongue can
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be simple. Meaning you're not looking for
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any tricks. Any gimmicks, any any shortcuts.
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It's just a simplistic wholehearted authentic way of
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livings. The time doesn't have to be.
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This goofy could be someone who was very a wholehearted who
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didn't maybe want. To be bothered by the details of
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things. Because once you get into
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details, then you have different levels.
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You keep the details on that level.
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I keep it on that level and people don't keep them at all
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and it will becomes a little bit of a status symbol of how, where
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are you keeping? What are you doing?
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So Rob Malcolm says Blue. Shamrock a clown that without
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any no cleverness. And cleverness doesn't mean
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depth of understanding but it means no tricks.
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No, no, no, no. No perversion of what you're
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trying to do. He says as follows and he very
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much didn't like philosophers. Creation of combs arm and there
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are philosophers, who maintained shit.
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Gotta tackle is for Olam Haba. What is Paradise, what was
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Paradise? Be paradise would be the
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experience of lard ass cold Dava commercial to understand
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everything. What is hell?
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In this world? Ignorance ignorance.
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Ignorance, you can't understand anything, it's irritating.
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I wish I knew I wish I could make sense of it and that sense
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of not being able to make sense of things for certain people who
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webinar, I'm only saying this is not the way to live, that would
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be awful and Paradise, therefore would be a world where
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everything made sense when you could make sense of things and
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explain things, lard-ass called Dava commercial who to really
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understand everything as it is. For example, knowing the star,
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as it is knowing the innate nature and why it's positioned
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where it is in the sky to have no more questions, would be
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paradise and when we have doubts, when we make us feel
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inadequate, All this feeling when you don't know something,
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you feel inadequate, you feel someone's better than you, so
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that that is some form of hell and Paradise would be knowing
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everything. But the problem is like this
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overall. I'm her boss in this paradise
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experience. We're not going to have a body,
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so the body is not going to get in the way and then we'll just
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have disembodied minds. And if the Mind understands
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everything that's going to be the greatest Bliss.
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Who can possibly imagine? A vowel.
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That's not great. The MS at slavery.
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What's really for Jewish people for us here?
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Car has Saugus article. This.
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What's the real attached to achieve?
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The goal of Everything Is Right. Aly day and Mona.
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So we got to know what that word means.
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In this context, I have faith. What is Faith me or Mitzvahs
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masius and applied Mitzvah? So, not thinking about the deed,
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by actually doing them, like a vote Hashem.
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LP hotter up, its members of a cheetah's to serve Hashem based
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on the Torah way of life with Simplicity and
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straightforwardness. So this is a very fascinating
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argument in. There's no, this is it.
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There's literally two schools of thought, one school of thought
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says, when it comes to airports and monitor Monarch for the
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aesthetic way of thinking, for rebbe nachman, for this way of
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understanding Jewish life is the understanding that God directs,
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every single aspect of your life.
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So you're walking in the street and a leaf blows off a tree.
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A lands by your Foot Hashem. Wanted that leaf to fall off the
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tree and land by your foot for whatever reason or maybe for no
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reason you to maybe take notice of the leaf and contemplate, the
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beauty of a leaf for the tree or where it might have come from
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and absolutely everything is directed to the tiniest little
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details. And it's all for the good.
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That's one school of thought to Divine Providence.
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It's all-encompassing every aspect of our life is directed
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by God and His involved. Everything the other side of the
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argument says know if you're a big sad are gives us totally
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righteous. Then you Merit God watching over
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you and looking after you and every step, every experience is
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completely governed by God's watching your looked after
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because you're all right, just person.
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But the day-to-day I can leave falling off a tree.
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It's just a leaf falling off a tree in as God didn't say, right
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now that we've got a phone in front of you, and it's simply
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not true to say that every aspect of your life is governed
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down to those factors tiny details.
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So there are two schools of thought they split the Jewish
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World. What is the answer?
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This isn't how like Russia. So, if you are not into the
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Hasidic cab, you will find one and we're doing a classic dot
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teaching. So this is all through the lens
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of absolutely everything in life is directed 100% by Hashem, but
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you don't have to believe in that because it's early.
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On opinion amongst to so rare for a big announcement for UPS.
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I'm Irish and Mona is this is what it really is about.
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Do know that Hashem is watching everything.
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Everything happens for a reason, Hashem send you.
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So, for example, somebody annoys you during the day, someone's
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rude to you, they have been sent by God to annoy you.
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Uh, what about their Free Will? How can God no irritate use?
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This person said, the teacher would be that.
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Somebody who desire, who likes to insult are plenty of People
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who don't want bothered by insulting people, they're quite
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happy to be root. So that, that's their free will.
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Their Free Will, is I want to be the person who's going to annoy
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others. So God will allow them to use
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their free. Will to come and knock you down
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a peg or two by putting him in your place by several like just
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got insulted, okay? I'm not as cocky as I was a
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minute ago for a bit chastened. And now, I'm on a different
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level and they've been used and then the idea would be.
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So who'd you get cross with will not burn a book that insulted
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you, they were God's porn to bring you down because you
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needed a lesson. Then you got to talk to God and
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say, well what does God want from me?
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Why is why did he send that person rather than getting upset
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at the individual who was rude to you?
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But it turn it on yourself because they're being used.
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They've been you because they want to be used.
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So they enjoy in this in this particular scenario.
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So, the first thing is, we've been talking to says that the
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greatest purpose, that the attainment of our whole goal in
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life is to serve god with Simplicity and
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straightforwardness. And then we Merit this world
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that we no one has seen this paradise, whatever that might be
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or in the pulse like that. We know from, we all like the
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student in primary schools, ratios hock my year as a sham,
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the beginning of wisdom is a fear or reverence of Hashem.
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Shikha, ratios arkadiy moussaka. Mama, the main beginning and the
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whole to start off, trying to be wise is to be aware of Hashem
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and that comes before wisdom. Because what you bought would be
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nominees dealing with is a world of philosophy where people start
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asking questions, and doubts, and trying to get too clever for
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themselves. And then you've got a whole
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movement of Jews leaving Judaism because they've opened up to the
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husk. Allow the Enlightenment and
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people started reading and paralleling what happened in
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Europe when the church lost its all the central Authority and
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then people began to have freedom to believe.
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Not to believe, in whatever religion, they wanted, and they
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had opportunities to go and study, and the priests were no
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longer in control of the basic of the population that that vibe
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that energy affected, the Jewish world, as well.
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And lots and lots of formerly religious families were broken
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apart by those who ran to the universities and abandoned
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Judaism because they dabbled in philosophy, rather than keeping
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it simpler perspective. Now, this actually links in
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quite nicely with where we are in the shadows before the
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ricotta shoveled out. Going to see in a minute where
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I'm a lake and where it links into poem quite nicely.
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So you should know when the, the fourth box down at the matter is
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not as they maintain God forbid. That these philosophy is the way
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to go, but if it was so then only the, if you think about it,
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philosophy is only going to attract and speak to the
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brightest of the bright the greatest Minds.
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So webinar from says if they were right, then only the very,
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very few, the intellectual Elite.
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The philosophers would ever get to the end goal of the end goal,
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according to the philosophy. Ours is knowledge.
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That only the most brilliant amongst us would ever get to the
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goal, which means 97 percent of the population are going to fail
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which that can't be And what if the old Denari folk, who lack
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the mind, and what makes rebbe nachman, so beautiful for now,
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for modern Jews as well? Is that everyone who filled?
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There's no hope to anything links in with breslev his
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followers number like, really pie his, holy people who have
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been their family. Go back to the arc, to the
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original Clan to, like people have been in prison.
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In Israel that I've done vile things who are attracted to
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rebbe nachman because he says no one's ever rejected there.
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Can never be a place that you are disconnected from God, just
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connected from the Jewish. People is always in liquid, diet
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of our, he speaks beautifully of that place that that, that spark
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if you want or a point of goodness in every single human
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being, that's never extinguished, no matter what you
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do. And so no one at.
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So people feel that they belong with rebbe nachman because he's
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the one that always wanted to hold everyone close, he's
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whining about the ordinary folk, who lack the Mind?
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Who can't do philosophy, the other majority.
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And the nucleus of the So how can it be that?
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How would they attain the ultimate goal of this
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philosophy? If there are?
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So few of them in number. But in fact, the last paragraph
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box on the first side, the MSE car has Saugatuck, is how do you
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get this end? Goal is Right.
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Aly, they to me most, you got to be Simplicity, Simplicity is
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just simply be aware of God and realize his greatness and
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therefore, there's a fear. There's an all keep the Mitzvahs
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just do it without worrying about the people clapping you
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from behind or putting my name on a plaque or getting A picture
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in a paper with someone just simple.
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This is the meaning of the last for the penultimate pass that in
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the trial has served of our. Cornishmen ultimately says King
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Solomon and all things have been considered like wisdom and
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physical pleasures, and spirituality, and everything in
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between. What's his conclusion?
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After delving into the truth of Life?
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King Solomon says as hello, Kim. Purifier Hashem.
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Specimens voiceover Ashima. Keep the Mitzvahs kizhakemala
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Adam, that's it. In other words consultant, you
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Shlomo blessed memory teaches us that the attainment of the
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ultimate goal. The concept of ultimately of the
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end is, by means of Simplicity and straightforwardness to feed
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God and observe his mitts was in a simple way.
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And this is ultimately, all things have been considered.
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That's what we have to do. There's a beautiful teaching
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shave. I get pulled Sadiq the next box
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down the small one in the middle.
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Cheviot old sadek, become a righteous person stumble seven
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times in gets up. If you look at those last
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letters and you scramble them rearrange the older, it gets to
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the word and moloch. So as I said it can fall seven
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times, you can still be righteous but you can mess up a
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bunch of times. 7 is just the number doesn't mean literally
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seven but why you are sad it because you get back and you get
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back up again. Now what is that?
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Stumbling block the last letter of the word.
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I'm Chevy. Appalled, sadek become spell.
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I'm Alec the stumbling block of the seven wisdoms that caused
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people to fall yet. If that's a dick fall seven
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times, he gets up by means of Emina.
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And we connect it here in the last box to moisture are being
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really two weeks ago in the laning.
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And Malik comes to attack the Jewish, people run after
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leaving, Egypt, and Moshe sitting there on a rock his
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hands. His hands are in the air.
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And it says, in the past that guy, he got of and Luna.
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His hands will be, were Faith, had his hands of Faith through
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faith, he weakened, and moloch, which means the wisdoms and the
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philosophical enquiries as mentioned, as we said before,
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and this is his hands were for his faith.
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His hands are Mitzvahs metaphor for doing things.
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Hands are doing things said, the Mitzvahs correspond to the faith
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because when you practice your faith, you when you practice me,
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Suppose you demonstrate your faith through faith and
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Mitzvahs, which are the antithesis of our Malik.
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Most Robin was able to weaken him.
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So, I'm Alec comes along with calls us down, from all our
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passions, all, re all our energies to be simple, and
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starts, its investigating, and exploring, and delving, and
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questioning, and taking your mind.
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And you're only worthwhile, if you can juggle, all these ideas
22:16
in your head, Along Comes rebbe nachman says, you want to get
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close to our chairman you to do. So just with Simplicity, don't
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try any tricks. Don't try any wisdom.
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Just so let's see how this translates into his most
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beautiful. Beautiful story.
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You're not going to be the whole story tonight for the do a
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little bit of trailer, see how it goes.
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A tale of two householders in one city who were very wealthy,
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they had large houses and they had two sons each.
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Had a son, both of whom learned in the same classroom.
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And if these two sons one was bright and the other was
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simple-minded, he wasn't stupid. He just needed a little bit
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longer to grab, to learn the information and these two sons
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loved each other very much. They were best of friends.
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Despite the fact that one was clever and the other one was
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simple. Even so they were very close as
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time passed. These two householders began to
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lose their wealth, they sank further and further until they
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lost everything became destitute and were left with nothing,
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except their houses and the sons began to grow up.
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So the father said to the sun's we don't have the capacity
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capability to pay the expenses to keep you guys going.
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You're going to have to look after yourselves.
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The simple one went and learned the trade of shoemaking and the
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clever one who got a sharp mind. He didn't want to go into common
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handiwork. So he contemplated to go out
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into the world and look for something to do.
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He went and wandered through the marketplace.
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There he saw a large Carriage with for harnessed horses.
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That was traveling along. He spoke up and said to the
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Tradesmen, where you from, We're from Warsaw and where were you
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going? To Warsaw.
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He said, perhaps you need some help.
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They saw that he was intelligent and energetic.
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So they liked him and they accepted him, he does traveled
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with them and serve them capably along the way when it came to
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all sources, he was intelligent, he thought, and now in Warsaw,
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where should I be tied to these people?
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Maybe there's something better for me to do.
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I would go and ask and find out. So he went to the marketplace
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and began to investigate and asked about the people who had
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brought him and if they are people any better than the ones
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who had driven him to Warsaw, the answer of these people are
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decent and it's good to be with them.
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It's difficult to be with them because their dealings are done
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over great distances. He went and saw people from the
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clothing business passing through the market in their
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fashionable Style with their various, adornment their hats
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and sharp pointed shoes. Shoes and other refinements in
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the way that they walked in the way that they dressed.
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He had a sharp intellect and this work appealed to him
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because it had Grace it had style and it was done in your
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local area. He returned to the people who
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had brought him and gave them respect and told them that I
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didn't want to be with you anymore.
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And so, and as for having their brought him there, he had paid
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them because he'd worked for them along the way, as though,
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they were now quit. He went and started to work for
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one of the merchants, it's the way of hired servants.
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At the beginning, you have to work for little pay and do
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strenuous tasks. Then afterwards, they reach the
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level of established servants. His employer gave him hard work
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and you would send him to customers bearing merchandise as
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is customary for servants. Now, if the hold their arms up
25:51
draping, the garments over their arms from many, many hours a
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day, it's work was hard for him, sometimes he would need to climb
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up. Many flights with his load.
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And the work was really tough. So we thought about it and he
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was an intelligent, highly intelligent philosopher.
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Why should I do work like this for truly, the main reason for
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working is to achieve the goal of getting married and making a
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living. But I don't need to be concerned
26:18
about this yet, so I'll have time to deal with this in the
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future. In the meantime, I'm happy to
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roam around the land in different countries and feast my
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eyes on the world. Paul's at this ditch.
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Any thoughts who's better off at this stage?
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The simple one or the intelligible.
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Because okay good I'm doing. The shoes is is at home is I'm
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going to gone anywhere? What trouble?
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What difficulties does there? I'm so sorry.
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What's house? The house?
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The clever son damaging himself at this point, what's he?
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What's, he opened himself up to? Because he would settle not
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satisfied and he's put himself through a lot of Heartache.
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His slapped on a journey, which would have been easy in the
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1700s. 1800s, schlepping working hard, never being settled, not
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quite knowing what he's doing and Brilliant.
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Not nothing to show for it either.
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So sophistication, philosophy intelligence, of course you can,
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but no spoilers to the end of the story.
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I'm so glad you said that because
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he still has hope Because when you always hold him - an
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expression is better to travel hopefully.
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So if you still hopeful, you're still online program because it
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is this situation Hope on didn't.
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Don't use self-satisfied, you've always got hope that's
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beautiful. But what this, what this kid
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will discover through his journey is that through his
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supposed intelligence of always, trying to better himself, he's
28:45
given himself too many experiences that will then when
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he doesn't have them. Whole, then come to rule that
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the expert has, yes, he's gonna be spoiled and he'll then
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they'll not be able once he comes down from that level.
28:58
Evil of the glamour of the clothes, people, and dressing a
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certain way, will then be frustrated by anything that's
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not on that mud drag on that level.
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Yeah, this guy is not spiritual tour.
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It's all about for this carrot, members, are trying to see
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ourselves in the story. So, Perhaps there are times in
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our lives when we do things. Simply just want to get on with
29:20
it without making a Fast and other times where If I just
29:25
phone another specialist, I just go to A Better Private Hospital.
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If I just do, you know we all do?
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I just know take that shortcut and not that short cut and go
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that way. We are in a way.
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No, every distance between talking to us and not talking to
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some some fictional characters. It's all of us.
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We can see ourselves as always we know, making schemes to get
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through life is something we always do.
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If we work, this will save the money will go there.
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We'll do that now. There's nothing wrong with
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trying, but at some point we'll see that there's a triangle
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without a Mana which is what this character represents is.
30:04
What gets his character into trouble says, here he goes now.
30:06
So, he's been a slapper Honor on a wagon.
30:09
He has been his being a clothes display our mannequin, I guess.
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Human mannequin to have put clothes on with him.
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You would call it. He now goes to Laguna, so
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they're going to, they're going to take him there.
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Take him then I was in Spain. So he's gone from Eastern Europe
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to Spain. Little bit like Jonah and duck
30:27
Internationals, also, their own place to go.
30:30
Meanwhile, several years. Transpires have just jumped
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forward in time. How's that for your time travel?
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And he became even wiser for. He had been in many countries
30:40
that me contemplate. It now would be a good to think
30:43
about the ultimate. And he started to consider with
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his philosophical analysis. What he should do.
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He founded appealing to learn the trade of Goldsmith.
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It's an important trade and attractive demands wisdom.
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It's very profitable since he was highly intelligent and a
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philosopher. He didn't need to learn very
31:02
long in a quarter of a year. He mastered the trader became a
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distinguished Artisan more expert in the trade than the one
31:09
who had even taught him and he thought well I can do this.
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This today this trade is in demand, but maybe in the future,
31:17
a different skill will be in demand.
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So he went and he became a gem cutter because who knows where
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the Goldsmith will be good in the future.
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So now is now is a gem cut and because of his quick mind he
31:27
wants again like that very very quickly.
31:30
But then he thought even if I have these two traits who knows
31:34
if they're going to fall out of demand, one day better that I
31:37
learn a trade that will always be important.
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Not you at the back. You at the front?
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What? What job is he going to be?
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Now, I'm not a baker. Not a Shoemaker, my thumb there.
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Dr. Excellent. He becomes a doctor.
31:55
Haven't tipped her off. By the way.
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She got? No, no previous He reasoned
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according to his understanding of philosophy that he should
32:03
learn to be a doctor. I don't know why he puts hit the
32:06
medical profession in Brackets. The little bit can doctor
32:09
anyway, which is always needed and important, it's customary
32:13
that before learning medicine, one must learn Latin.
32:18
Obviously, so addict and composition and the intellectual
32:22
discipline of philosophy. So due to his understanding, he
32:25
also learned this in a very short amount of time.
32:28
So now, so six months are Duolingo back in the past report
32:32
was invented, he had the app, he was learning Latin him.
32:35
The pope and it was all great. Now afterwards, the world began
32:39
to seem Petty in his eyes, who never for this guy is an artisan
32:43
is a gem cutter, is a doctorate of philosophy as a close guy.
32:46
Is that he's done everything because of his intellect, since
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he was a master Craftsman and intellectual a doctor, all the
32:52
people of the world seem like nothing to do with, who he
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talked to no one's on his and his level, he considered
32:58
fulfilling his goal and taking a wife and thought to himself.
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If I marry here, who will know what became of me, I'm going to
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return home. So that they will see what I've
33:07
become since I was once a small ad and now I'm a great person.
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So he went and traveled home, he suffered greatly along the way
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so because of his intellect he had no one with whom to talk.
33:20
He could not find lodgings according to his taste and he's
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suffered much. This point would be enough, man,
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leaves the story of the clever guy and jumped to the other guy,
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which was that we're going to get to next time.
33:33
Oh, yes. Yes, but so let's learn to make
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for understand the story little bit contrived shallow, Irish
33:39
people would certainly imagine who writes that, the clever one
33:42
had a tremendous advantage over the simple one.
33:44
Since intelligence is a person's Prime asset.
33:48
We tend to think that, in society, we want to hear from
33:50
clever people. We don't people tend to hang out
33:52
with those who on a similar. Intellectual level, wavelength.
33:57
Do we listen to, you know, radio for and the moral Maze and order
34:00
to hear clever people. We don't know.
34:02
Not so much farming today. Unless you can't sleep in your
34:05
up a fight that was always the worst when you had little
34:08
children, if you heard the shipping forecast that quarter
34:11
to 1:00 in the morning and pray, a prayer for the day at 5:30 or
34:15
farming today. You knew that the night was too
34:17
short. Even wants the early years.
34:19
When we had our kids on one of the channels are fishing program
34:22
on a Sunday and I knew I'd hit rock bottom.
34:25
You're listening to fishing on the radio and it was this big
34:30
what I called, how does that help anybody now?
34:35
But as we see in the story, had the simple one does succeed in
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life. Much more than the clever one.
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Thanks to his simple and innocent and Mona.
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The pure and simple faith in Hashem brings up.
34:48
Person to see the world in its proper light.
34:51
I'm Davin for everything. The purpose of this story is to
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teach us that success. Doesn't depend on someone's
34:57
talent talent, or intelligence, strength or riches, or anything
35:01
like that ribbon up. Remember he's sharing his
35:03
ideology is philosophy through stories.
35:05
And the truth is that we we learn far more from stories or
35:08
anything else. We've all taught our children,
35:11
The Three Little Pigs but had someone stood up in whether in
35:15
Germany whoever wrote the story, one of his probably Protestant
35:17
Christians. A lot of these stories and gave
35:20
a lecture somewhere in the 1800's, about the need to
35:24
prioritize once safety and protection over once fun.
35:28
Who would be retelling that lecture in 2023?
35:32
But put it into three pigs and the smell a little bit.
35:34
First one who prioritize their fun over their safety by
35:38
building a house, that was too flimsy to wisdom.
35:40
The pro, the dangers of the wolf, the story last, in the
35:43
same way, he wanted. The story to go success depends.
35:46
On a person's simple and innocent face.
35:48
Which leads to the truly good life.
35:51
Well, it'll get to learn how to avoid the pitfalls of
35:53
intellectual sophistication. However, stated that my sound,
35:57
we're going to learn how to avoid those and The Traps that
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ensnare, an individual, who relies on his own intellect,
36:04
which is the antithesis of the wisdom of Amana.
36:10
So, we need such as we go through the story.
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We need to explore ourselves. Went off to think.
36:17
When do we do that? When do we think we can get
36:21
through life, by basing on our own understanding of life?
36:24
And when do we, when do we Dublin for things?
36:27
And ribbon after is all about, I've taught, this is my daily
36:30
sheer to Devon in order to be able to divert so concept.
36:35
We never learned. We learned Primary School what
36:38
to say but and then we get Hold off in high school when we find
36:42
it hard to David and start daydreaming, then we just get
36:44
berated by teacher that why you don't have any now.
36:48
Well then we become adults, we don't go to school but no one
36:50
says teachers we have to dive into know how to dive in this.
36:52
Like there's a Simplicity and just saying hey God helped me
36:56
learn how to dive into you and that's probably what we need to
36:59
do. This tale is one of ribbon that
37:02
man's finest stories through it. We learn a process of emotional
37:06
self-strengthening, that's impossible.
37:08
To learn anywhere else, no matter what a person's
37:10
limitations are shortcomings in life.
37:12
Who chooses the way of the hero of this Tale.
37:14
The simple one we can all achieve.
37:17
What the simple one does a chief.
37:20
Now, what's important is beginning?
37:21
A ribbon Ackerman says, despite there's potential here.
37:25
There's no evil character. There's nothing wrong with the
37:27
clever. One of the beginning of the
37:28
story, how they have, are they described?
37:30
If they were one was clever, one was simple.
37:33
They loved each other very much. Even though there was a gap of
37:37
intellect, despite the difference between the two boys,
37:41
they loved each other very much. Now normally we don't do that,
37:44
we hang out with people who were like us once when you in scored
37:47
a big class and they stream you hang out with people in your
37:49
stream. You don't know how people
37:50
outside of that, but these boys were fond of each other.
37:54
How could that be? Despite the clever boys quick
37:56
mind? He had not yet attained the
37:58
character trait of arrogance. It's only as he goes on that
38:02
Journey. That will begin to see me.
38:04
Get why, how did it go wrong for this clever kit?
38:07
And if the simple one is the hero he liked him.
38:09
There must have must have had redeeming feature.
38:11
Some quality about him. That was nice enough for the,
38:15
for the, for the simple one to want to want to connect with
38:18
since. So, since neither neither was
38:21
arrogant, and childhood the clever one in the simple.
38:23
One were both pure and innocent from the very beginning.
38:26
We see that the clever one had the roots of a good character
38:29
just like the simple one. I'm going to keep that in mind.
38:32
Where does it go wrong? And top of chart?
38:34
The Journey of of the clever one.
38:38
Let me just tipped you off at the simple one because you're
38:40
not very good at making shoes. He might have wanted to be a
38:43
Shoemaker but in this story he was pretty bad at doing that.
38:49
So what do we say? He was very slow, he wasn't
38:51
stupid. It took him a long time.
38:53
So the simple one learned, the trade of cobbling, shoemaking,
38:56
because he was simple. He learned a long time.
38:59
So, in a different country today, Kayla definitely quickly.
39:02
This guy learned a long time until he wasn't.
39:04
He was able to grasp the trade even then, not so great.
39:08
He married a woman and he made a living from his work because he
39:11
was simple. He was not so good at it and his
39:14
earnings were very limited. He didn't even have time to eat
39:17
because he had to work so long on making a shoe.
39:20
So uh, while he worked, he would make a hole in the leather with
39:23
his tools and while inserting and withdrawing the fixed sewing
39:26
thread he would quickly snatch a by his bite of bread and eat.
39:31
But he was happy all the time. He was only filled with
39:34
happiness, he had all kinds of food, he all the drinks, he
39:37
could imagine, he would say to his wife, my wife, give me
39:41
something to eat, should give them a piece of bread and he
39:43
would eat his a my wife give me some vegetables and sauce should
39:48
give him another slice of bread and he would eat.
39:51
Try this on your husband selling it lasts, then he would praise
39:54
and say how fine and tasty is that Source C would order to be
39:59
brought meat and other Delicacies.
40:01
He's and each times you gave him a piece of bread and then he
40:04
asked for wine and she would give him all different types of
40:06
drinks. And each time, it would just be
40:08
water. Each time she would give him
40:11
water and he would enjoy and praise that beverage as if he
40:14
were really drinking whatever he'd wanted.
40:17
I need to stay with his clothes. He and his wife, shared one
40:21
winter fur coat. My wife give me the fur coats
40:25
when he needed to wear it to go to the market.
40:28
She would give it to him. We need to wear a suit jacket
40:31
for social occasions. He was in my wife, give me the
40:33
suit jackets and she would give him the fur coat and he would
40:37
Delight in. It have fine as this suit when
40:40
he needed a caftan. For example to go to the
40:42
synagogue, he would come and live my life, give me the caftan
40:46
and she would give him the fuck out.
40:47
Coach attention very contented similarly when he needed to wear
40:51
formal overcoats. My wife give me the coat and she
40:54
would give him the fuck it. How fine a beautiful is this
40:57
overcoats and so on and he was filled only with joy and
41:01
gladness always and he would finish a shoe and it would
41:06
wouldn't really have a round bit at the end of be a triangle
41:09
because he wasn't very good at cutting the fabric.
41:12
So the leather He would take the shoe in his hand and praise it.
41:16
Hi, Liam would take great pleasure from this point issue.
41:20
He would say my wife, how beautiful and wonderful is this
41:23
shoe, How Sweet It Is. The shoe has a sweet as honey
41:29
and sugar, then she would say, well, my darling, if it's so
41:32
great, why does everybody else charge three gold pieces for a
41:37
pair of shoes and you take half a gold one.
41:40
Half of a gold piece, he said, what does it matter?
41:44
This is his doing. This is what I do.
41:47
Why must we talk about others? Let's calculate how much profit
41:51
I make from this shoe. The leather cost so much the
41:54
tire and the lace is cost such and such the other materials
41:57
cost this, the filler cost that now I make a profit of 10 big
42:02
copper coins. Why should I complain with a
42:05
prophet like that? And he was only full of joy and
42:08
gladness all the time. In the eyes of others, he was an
42:14
object of ridicule and people satisfy their Lust For mockery
42:18
through. Him.
42:20
So the clever guy is just never but everything's difficult.
42:24
No one's on the right level. Nothing's quite good enough.
42:27
And the smell all over here. The simple one.
42:30
Living the life, pure Faith, enjoy.
42:33
And we'll see the challenge is, understanding it, but then
42:36
Translating that into action. So, this is another Oddity about
42:39
this year. Whereas, the halacha sure and
42:41
would be heard that. The rather whoever's giving the
42:43
ship knows how to do the stuff that he's talking about.
42:47
We're learning this together because I think life would be
42:50
very different if someone lived, this, you'd be bouncing up and
42:53
down all day, happy No, kids not sitting there, the goal.
43:03
If you've got the brain, then you should know.
43:05
Even more of the dangers of maybe nothing felt that when we
43:14
see the story progresses where this guy goes wrong with the
43:16
arrogance and his stay in his stature and I've already started
43:20
this toy, wait for it, he goes very wrong.
43:24
It all fits quite as it gets flipped.
43:26
You'll see it's only part one of whom this.
43:30
Patience. Yeah, I've got patients.
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Thank you very much.