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Talk to my Soul - Salvation from Within - With Dr. Miriam Menaker - Psalm 35 · Tehillim for the Soul with Dr. Miriam Menaker

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The deepest message of Psalm 35 is that Hashem does not ask us to become invulnerable.
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He invite us to discover the divine strength concealed within our vulnerability.
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When we face world challenges when other fail to recognize our goodness, when the soul feels powerless against forces greater than itself, we can remember David's word,"Say to my soul, I am your salvation." Miriam, you should repeat that again,'cause that's pretty powerful what you're saying.
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psalm 35 is, sounds a little rough, because every time David is, complaining that he has so many enemies.
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He w- is pleading to Hashem to protect him.
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Is one of King David most emotional, powerful prayers.
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It begins with a desperate plea for Hashem to defend him against those who seek to harm him, and gradually reveals deeper spiritual journey, the transformation of suffering, betrayal, and injustice into greater faith, humility, and closeness to Hashem.
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So that is our life.
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We feel that.
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We feel constantly betrayed, injustice in our life.
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And how to transform that, that is the question.
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Through the lens of Hasidut and Kabbalah, these psalms can be understood not only as David's struggle against external enemies, but also as a description of soul's inner battle against the forces that obstruct its connection to its divine source.
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The central spiritual question is, how can who experience injustice, rejection, or betrayal transform that painful experience into an opportunity for a spiritual elevation?
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Usually what happen is by default, or we get depressed, or we get angry, or we, or we are completely confused.
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So one of the profound teachings we can draw from Psalm 35 is that our greatest victory is not merely to defeat of the enemy, but the revelation of Hashem's presence within the very darkness that threatens to overwhelm us.
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How we can see Hashem there?
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That is a question, a huge question.
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So here, the Tzemach Tzedek, that is one of the Rebbeim of Chabad, he appoint, explore the verse 10 of the Psalms says,"All my bones shall declare Hashem, who is like you?" In Hasidic thought, the ultimate pur- purpose of serving Hashem is not to elevate the soul while leaving the body behind, rather the soul must illuminate the body Until every, our physical existence becomes an expression of divine consciousness.
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We have to connect our, human consciousness with the divine consciousness.
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This concept entails infusing physical action with a sense of holiness.
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Means when you are eating, you are bringing holiness into your food.
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By, saying a blessing, by showing you satisfaction after you finish to eat.
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By going, to a friend, by sharing with anybody, your knowledge.
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By connecting and if you have a friend that suffer for any type of disease, going visiting them.
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By showing- kindness Continuing the psalm says the concept about the bones.
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The bones represent the deepest structure of our physical existence.
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They support us, carry us, and give us stability When King David declares that all his bones will praise Hashem, he reveals a spiritual state in which faith is no longer confined to the intellect or emotion.
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It penetrates the marrow of his being.
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Means our devotion to Hashem, our prayers must come from our essence, our visceral body has to praise Hashem.
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Is not an intellectual, reading.
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When we learn Torah, is not a intellectual discipline.
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Is more we have to integrate this wisdom inside our bodies.
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This is the moment from knowing Hashem intellectually to experiencing his presence throughout our existence.
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Is an experience.
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Praying is not a reading of beautiful words.
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Is an experience.
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Our connection with Hashem must be, we have to experience it.
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I don't know if I am be clear enough of what is the idea of intellect, understanding intellectually and an experience.
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Life is an experience the spiritual goal is not merely to speak words of faith, but to become a living expression of faith.
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We have to represent that faith.
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And there is another side of the Psalm says, from the same verse 10, he says,"The poor person and the mighty enemy," says about the battle between the yetzer tov and the yetzer ha.
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So who saves the poor from one stronger than he?
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Who is-- who serves the poor?
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Here, the words of the Tzemach Tzedek, says that the yetzer tov is the poor person, the inclination toward goodness, while the powerful oppressor represent the yetzer hara, the inclination towards wrongdoing.
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Why is the yetzer tov described as poor?
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The spiritual inclination often speak in a quiet voice.
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That's why sometimes we don't listen to our, good side.
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Because it's very quiet.
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It's a soft voice.
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It does not necessarily demand immediate gratification or attract attention.
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The Yetser Hara, by contrast, can appear powerful, urgent, and persuasive very much.
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This creates an important paradox.
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The voice that appear weak may be connected to the deepest truth of the soul, while the voice that appears powerful may draw its strength from temporary desire and illusion This is the Yetser Hara, temporary desire of satisfy my selfish needs.
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I want a new car.
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That is the Yetser Hara.
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I want you to do that.
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This is the demand of the Yetser Hara The spiritual struggle is therefore not simple, a battle between good and evil outside ourselves.
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It is also a struggle between the eternal identity of the soul and the temporary forces that seek to dominate our consciousness.
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So that is the two battles that we constantly have to confront.
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Hashem's salvation means empowering the divine soul to reveal its true strength.
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This is what we ask.
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We ask Hashem to empower our soul and to help us to overcome this battle.
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How we can also do when we feel that we are, not clear in our mind about about a situation, we have to pause and observe and see what are the thoughts coming into our mind.
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When we do that, we create a separation It's like I want to do something.
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In the computer, for example, I have to stop.
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I have to pause.
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And when I pause, I am allowing my mind to quiet, my emotions I and the right decisions are taken at this moment.
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everything is solved immediately In verse twelve and fourteen, of the Psalm, David describes something deeply painful.
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He had shown compassion.
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This is another point.
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He has shown compassion toward people who later turn against him.
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When they were ill, he wore sackcloth, fasted, and prayed for their recovery Yet they responded to his goodness with hostility.
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This presents a profound question, why does kindness sometimes seem to produce suffering rather than gratitude?
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This is what we see in life.
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In our own life, we are good friend, we try to help them, and we see that instead there is turn their back to us.
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We get perplexed how that can happen.
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So a Hasidic explanation of this passage Hasidut says, genuine hesed, loving kindness, must emerge from our relationship with Hashem rather than from our need to receive appreciation.
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If we wants to be kind to others, and we are expecting a return of their appreciation, that is wrong.
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Because then we are depending of that, and it's to be dependent.
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I don't do that because I need a recognition, or retribution.
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I do it because this is my way of doing.
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When we perform kindness solely because we expect gratitude, our happiness become dependent upon another person response.
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This is the idea.
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But when kindness flows from the divine essence of the soul, it becomes an expression of who we truly are.
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This does not mean tolerating mistreatment or abandoning healthy boundaries.
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David himself prays for protection and justice.
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We have to create boundaries, of course.
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Rather, it means that another person wrongdoing does not have to determine the spiritual quality of our own actions.
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David compassions, reveals his character.
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His enemies betray, reveals theirs.
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This creates a separation between them and me.
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They are the one that are misbehaving.
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It's not me.
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I am showing kindness.
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The other has the responsibility of not showing back or being betrayed or hostile to us another verse"Say to my soul, I am your salvation." In the third verse.
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One of the most spiritually moving verses in this psalm.
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Notice that David does not merely ask Hashem to remove his enemies.
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He asks Hashem to speak directly to his soul.
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Why?
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Because even after external danger disappears, fear can remain within the heart.
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A person may be physically safe, yet continue to experience uncertainty, anxiety, or emotional pain.
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David seeks something beyond the removal of suffering and inner awareness that his life is held within Hashem providence.
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That is the point.
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My life is held in Hashem's hand.
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There are two level of salvation, external and internal.
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External is the threatening circumstances change.
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Internal is the soul discovers a deeper connection with Hashem even before the circumstances change towards the end, Psalm says,"May Hashem be magnified who desire the peace of his servant." The Hebrew word for Shalom, that is peace, means more than the absence of conflict.
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It suggests a harmony, wholeness, and the reconciliation of opposing forces.
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From a Kabbalistic perspective, we can contemplate this Psalm as a movement from judgment and constriction toward Rachamim.
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That means compassion and mercy.
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At the beginning, David experiences conflict, hostility, and fear.
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At the conclusion, his attention turns towards Hashem's re- righteousness, peace, and praise.
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This is not necessarily a declaration that all his problems have disappeared.
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Rather, the Psalm concludes by directing his consciousness toward divine justice and the hope of redemption, Psalm thirty-five teaches us that a spiritual growth does not always begin in moments of peace.
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Sometimes it begins when we feel misunderstood, betrayed, powerless, or surrounded by circumstances beyond our control.
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So at those moment, the soul is invited to discover a deeper source of strength.
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Not the strength of domination, revenge, or control, but the strength of Bitachon, trust in Hashem.
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David does not deny his suffering.
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He brings it directly into his relationship with the Creator He transforms fear into prayer, vulnerability into faith, and the longing for justice into a declaration of divine greatness.
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The deepest message of Psalm 35 is that Hashem does not ask us to become invulnerable.
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He invite us to discover the divine strength concealed within our vulnerability.
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When we face world challenges when other fail to recognize our goodness, when the soul feels powerless against forces greater than itself, we can remember David's word,"Say to my soul, I am your salvation." Our task is not to allow the darkness to define our identity.
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We are souls carrying a spark of the infinite, and no external force can erase that essential connection.
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And when we reach the point where every part of our existence can proclaim,"Hashem, who is like you?" We have begun to transform the struggle itself into an instrument of divine revelation It's very beautiful.
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That is a huge lesson so what are the lessons we can derive from the psalm?
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To believe in Hashem's providence.
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That when we feel rejection hostility from other towards us, despite our, good intention of help, we have not to be dependent It's not important if they recognize or don't recognize me.
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I do because this is my way to be.
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This is being a direct channel of Hashem.
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I am the channel of Hashem, and here I receive His, strength, His energy.
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The psalm concludes with the verse: the Lord will give strength to His people, Israel.
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That would be the meditation.
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But now I would like to hear from you, your opinion and your input on it.
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Emunah Tova, if you are so kind.
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Sure.
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Today is your birthday, so you have extra power, to bless us and also to express your ideas about this psalm.
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Well, what you were saying does connect with, our physical actions We're transforming our spiritual into our physical actions.
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think that the question at the beginning was how come form action or betrayal into the spiritual operation, It's just the realism of our relationship with Hashem, the things that we do, We're because of our relationship with Him, and that transforms, any kind of darkness into light.
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And so maybe just keeping, focus on those things because I think we all go through some of that.
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Yes.
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But I think the opportunities, you know, like my mother's in the rehab and s- one of the, the men sitting at their dining table was cold, so I He was in a wheelchair, so I pushed him to his room to get a sweater and brought him back to the table.
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And it was a blessing for me, Julie, What I said was this one's a real struggle for me I think there were some key elements that you talked about.
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The idea of the battle of our lives, and that we're really born with the idea that we are gonna have this battle, and there's a specific battle that's created for us.
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And that it's really hard to believe in those moments that it is created for us, and that it is for us to have an elevation of our soul.
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So what I would like you to speak more on is the piece of the shalom that you talked about, how you go from despair and fear and everything like that to feeling moments that, where you talked about shalom.
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I have an asterisk by it, and I said,"How do you transfer that fear?
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How do get to that believing in Hashem's providence, and believing in the divine strength, to get you onto the other side?" Very important.
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Yeah.
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That exactly is the battle that we are confronting.
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Because we don't see Hashem.
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Because they needed something physical- Absolutely to relate.
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Absolutely.
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But I hold onto that light.
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I hold onto that energy, God's not tangible.
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But it's the energy of God, and the light of God.
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I'm more in the body energy, not in the godly energy.
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Correct.
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That, and this is what they define in the sun.
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You have to to connect your human consciousness- Yes with divine consciousness.
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It has to be a alignment between both consciousness, human and divine.
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How we can get to that?
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By knowing Hashem.
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How we know Hashem?
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By learning Torah, by opening ourself.
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Like a, a little innocent child love Hashem.
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So how I love Hashem by learning, by seeing the beauty that is around me and feeling appreciation of that beauty.
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But instead of focusing in negativity, I am focusing in what I have.
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A house.
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I have everything.
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God gave me the possibility to get married.
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He gave me children.
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So all this thing, He gave me sustenance.
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The sustenance doesn't depend of my cleverness, doesn't depend of my bright, or of my intelligence.
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It only depends on the love that Hashem wants for me.
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Because There is two ways we can go from one area to the other, and back.
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It is two ways.
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When Hashem give us something, we also give back.
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This gratification and this connection with Hashem is the key of everything.
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I work six days of the week.
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So Saturday is my day of shopping.
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It is my day of going outside.
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You are focusing your mind only in your own self-satisfaction.
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In your own self desires.
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And that represent the yetzer hara.
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It is not that the body is bad.
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No.
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The body is very important.
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We have to take care of the body in every aspect.
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Because if I don't take care of my body, my brain is not going to function clearly.
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Inflammation that I have throughout my body it happen also in the neurons, in the brain.
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Inflammation, and that inflammation can be corrected by the food that I am eating, by doing exercise.
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Because when I do exercise also, I, change my emotion, by listening to a happy music, by alacrity.
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Correct?
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That will be the difference, To change my perspective.
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So when I take responsibility.
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I take consciousness of what is happening, and I stop crying like a little baby and thinking that I am a victim of the world.
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To the contrary, I am not a victim.
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I am not dependent of the world.
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I I am one of the tools of Hashem to transform the world in a world of peace.
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You said the word shalom.
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Shalom means completeness, wholeness.
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I am whole.
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I am in harmony between my spiritual being and my physical being.
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I I let my soul to express itself.
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I am not constricting my soul.
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It, I make that the body will be illuminated by the soul.
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And I feel that connection, and that is what creates this peace.
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That even if I am vulnerable, I am in control of my selfish desire.
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because when I am vulnerable, I know my weaknesses.
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But in this vulnerability, I have the strength.
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So when I believe in God providence Hashem is with me.
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And Hashem constantly is with us this is His purpose.
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He doesn't send us to war to lose the war.
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He send us to war in order to have a victory.
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Hasidut says something very important.
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When we have darkness in our life, the darkness give us the light.
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That is something incredible.
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The darkness is a moment.
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If you are, for example, comfortable in your life, and you have everything that you need, you don't have any worries.
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You don't strengthen your immune system, your spiritual immune system, because nothing happen.
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Nothing happen in your life.
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But when something happen in your life, then is the moment of reflection, is the moment when you are connecting to yourself, oh, why these things are happening?
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Not because I am a victim, but I am the source, to materialize Hashem's light My action, is very valuable.
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I am a representative of Hashem in this world.
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I am not a passive, person.
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I am an active person.
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When you are active and you take action, then you have the possibility to solve every situation that we face there's so much information that you've given us with it.
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Yeah.
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What's the message?
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Like I talk about, 34 is all about changing your mindset and everything like that.
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What would 35- The message is to see in our life, the goodness of Hashem, and to transform, and to know that those, battles that we are confronting are not in order to put our down.
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It's to the contrary, to elevate ourself.
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And how we elevate ourself?
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By connecting with Hashem, but aligning with His consciousness.
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That is the way that we get that strength.
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We receive that strength.
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And when we pray with all the devotion, and we experience.
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Everything is an experience.
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What I will keep in my memory forever, it will be an experience.
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And so that experience, that is a negative experience, we need to transform in a positive experience.
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And how I transform that- Okay, so that's the message.
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You're transforming a negative message into a positive.
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So you're taking the darkness and turning it into light, is what you're doing.
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Exactly.
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You- Okay what is the darkness here?
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The battle that we confront daily.
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Very good.
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Yeah, thank you.
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Okay.
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Dr.
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Yun?
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Yeah.
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This, really teaches us a deep lesson and then also, it applies to our daily life.
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So I was thinking about the internal salvation that you mentioned.
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We have all these struggles and challenges in our life.
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And, a lot of times we think,"Well, if I don't have this situation, I will achieve peace or, life might be better." But circumstances, don't change.
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When there are struggles and challenges still present, and easier s- still we, keep our own mind and, stay our mind in a state of a peace and completeness, like shalom and shalem.
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I think it goes back to, the Torah, like this week, when we surrender, like Betul and also Bichahon, And, we just have trust to follow Hashem's, way and walk with him.
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And like when Jacob confronts Esau and when he says...
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when Esau says,"I have a lot," but Jacob says,"I have everything." Yes, exactly.
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And Joseph was saying,"God sent me.
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You did what you did, but it's God who sent me here in Egypt." So we don't give the struggle circumstances, struggling circumstance ownership, but this is Hashem's world.
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Hashem is conducting all this.
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So it's...
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We see as imperfect world, but it is perfect itself and we are part of their...
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We're playing our role and as a vessel, and Hashem puts that kind of situation to repair.
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It...
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Not to judge, but to repair.
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So going back to just complete trust in Hashem and knowing Hashem, by bitul, it's like almost, gives me picture of like a Amidah prayer.
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Like, when things are struggling and there is challenges, I step back three times and let Hashem take over.
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Yes.
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Hashem, you did what I did, and, Hashem, please do your part.
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It doesn't mean that we're not doing anything and just looking.
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Our struggling is also part of Hashem's plan.
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It's...
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So that's why I feel like it's imperfect, but that imperfection is perfect.
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So I think that way we have everything, and I trust in Hashem, I'm still in peace.
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The circumstance hasn't changed, but I'm still in peace because Hashem runs and I do my part.
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And I think that gives me feeling of peace and complete in this.
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Yeah.
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So it goes back to your discussion with Julie.
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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Beautiful.
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Beautiful.
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Yes.
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Yes, I like it very much.
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Hannah, my dear Hannah.
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It was beautiful, Yon.
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I'm just gonna say here,'cause it's already been said beautifully by, by everybody and especially what you added, Yon.
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but I just wanna share that the how I felt as I was reading the psalm.
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It's a very it's not a comfortable, it's very disrupting to read it- at first, right?
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It's, dark.
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It's just so you go on and on, and just by, I think verse 23, like verse 20, 22.
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verse 22, he starts, is the transformation.
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I mean- the circumstances have not changed- but he is, the bitahon is coming to him.
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So Yes witness here the whole process.
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And it ends up with on, by the 28, like strength and the ultimate emunah there.
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I love it.
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I have goosebumps right now, by the way.
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So it's just, beautiful.
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I just wanna add that.
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And then please give Amy the word, whenever possible because she said she's stuck with it.
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And I want, I would like to understand why she feels that way.
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Amy, and, Ah, okay and I think you didn't hear.
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and she was saying that she was stuck with this, struggling.
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She was struggling.
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That was the word, Oh with the psalm.
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Okay.
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Yes, yes.
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I wanna transform from being the victim into being the creator.
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When we have the sense of being a victim, that we're r- we have I was gonna say, responsibility or control of our own lives.
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Where I was saying that I struggle is I always think of the people in World War II who were being marched to the gas chambers reciting psalms with complete faith in God.
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Able to stay in a positive space under, in, in the most horrific circumstances that I can imagine.
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And I think to myself, could I do that?
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That's where the struggle is.
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Yes.
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Yes, it's a very painful of our story.
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Yes, is right.
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And then the only way that I can reconcile that is that we are spiritual beings living a human experience.
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And that from a larger, beyond this body, spiritual perspective- I do believe it's all love and goodness.
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And there's parts that we don't understand That's right But, and that we have to practice and work very hard at, I don't know if transform is the right word, transforming our nervous system.
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'Cause our nervous system, our autonomic nervous system automatically, right, goes into a fight or flight mode to protect ourselves.
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And we have to work at transforming that because most of the time the, there's nothing attacking us right in front of us.
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But we are living in a world now that it feels like we're going back to World War II kind of stuff.
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I do find it very challenging to try to bring themself back into the spiritual.
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That's the challenge.
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Very good.
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Very good.
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Yes.
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You are saying what it is.
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It's correct.
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If you are asking me why, there is no answer.
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I cannot, Yeah give an answer.
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But, what is true after all the suffering of the, Nazis what they did to us, it is un- unimaginable.
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But from there came out the State of Israel, we need to, wake up.
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Sometimes we need someone to hit us in order that we wake up.
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So that is what is happening today.
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I see even today in Israel after soldiers that were safe, they finish their service in the army.
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I am very surprised that they, instead of being close to Hashem, they are separating themself.
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They don't want to follow the words of Hashem.
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It's very sad.
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I don't know why the mind, the human mind is always rebellious.
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So there is some that they return and but others that they became even, after the Second World War, they became completely detached.
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They didn't want to have anything to do with their Jewisness, even denied it that are part of the vulnerability or the weakness, better is the world weakness of the human being.
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Renee.
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Well, I'm sorry I missed your talk, so I'm glad for the recording.
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I'm just enjoying listening to everyone.
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I think there's some amazing points made this morning that resonated with me.
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That actually made sense that their souls were connected to Hashem and maybe He wanted them back.
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So if you, outside the physical body it makes, there's maybe some sense to it.
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And Yun, when you talked about...
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You made a very good point.
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Now I'm forgetting what it was.
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But, oh, that this is a perfect world, we just don't see it.
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We have our struggles.
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And as I go through different struggles, sometimes daily, whatever, over time, I have to continue to remind myself of this class and the hidden meanings and the spiritual meanings and the connection to Hashem,'cause sometimes I too get sucked into the emotion and sadness and anger of the situation.
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So I think you all made very good points on that this morning.
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So thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Natalie.
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I, there were three things that, came out for me this morning.
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I hadn't thought about the difference between, active prayer and passive prayer.
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And, that was really meaningful.
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I just was thinking about how we go to schul.
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I, I go every Saturday.
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And I don't necessarily, because I don't read the prayers in English, and even when I do read it, I think I...
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Part of the reason I don't read them in English is because they don't really have...
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i don't grasp them anyway.
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But just the thought of, when you're in schul or when you're saying your prayers throughout the day, the, the different things that we do, to think about, that it's active, that it's actually a time of connecting with Hashem, not just going through the motions of doing, standing there and saying the Shemoneh Esrei and not, not really knowing what you're saying.
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But there is the active...
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It's the, the connection I think that, that is, that's important and it...
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And to think more about it as being an active part of my day.
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I also really liked when you talked about the difference between the, the soft voice of Hashem and the loud voice of our, of telling us, not to, of our, our bad angels.
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And I struggle with that a lot.
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So that was meaningful.
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And then the other thing that was very meaningful was putting things, just putting it into perspective, talking about the importance of we all wanna do good, and we're always doing good, and I don't know that it always bothers me when I do good that I, that, it's not acknowledged.
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But I hadn't thought about it really in terms of, when I'm doing good, it is being acknowledged, it's just being acknowledged by Hashem, which is so much more important than having it be acknowledged by somebody who's not appreciative or whatever.
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So this was...
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I also just wanted to comment that I really like the way you did the class this morning.
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The fact that pulled it all together in such a meaningful way, rather than doing sentence by sentence, which is also, which I've also liked, but this was...
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i really liked this a lot, so thank you.
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Thank you.
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Okay.
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Very good.
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I really, I don't know who is ALK.
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Is Emmy?
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Yes.
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Ah.
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Emmy.
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I, please, Emmy, would like to hear from you.
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You are silent.
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I'm silent.
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I'm in a public place right now.
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But I could turn on my video.
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Ah.
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Okay, can you see me okay?
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Yes, I see you.
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Nice to- All right.
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I think it was Hannah that mentioned the word transform, that we must transform ourselves from, earthly li- life to spiritual life.
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And one of the, another way of looking at this that has helped me a lot is when once years ago Rabbi Elush spoke about, flipping a switch.
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When you go into a room it's turn a light.
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You flip the light on.
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And if you think of it as less of a transformation and more of something already in your heart and soul, and just needs to be accessed by flipping the light, the light switch.
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And Something that helped me a lot- to understand that it's not hard because we all have the spiritual Hashem divine, however you wanna call it, in our hearts and souls.
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and it's just about walking into another room of our brain and saying,"Okay, I'm not going to allow negativity to pass through me.
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I just am gonna flip the switch." And for many times, it's worked real well for me.
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Now, it, I think it also depends on how deep you are into the negativity or the depression.
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but I think it's worth trying.
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N- no matter what level of sadness or depression you might be in, that, that try just flipping the light.
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It could be easier than we're led to believe.
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Or, and I'm not saying it works all the time, but it helps me a lot to think of it in that structure or that frame of mind.
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Very good.
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Very good.
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Yes, exactly.
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So we, this is what we have to do, to switch, our switch, a difference instead of And that will be to switch to the yeser tov, to the good- Exactly inclination, and to- Exactly and to, many times, we, it's very hard to, silent our mind.
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It's impossible.
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We have a mind that is rushing.
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Even when you read a book, you are reading and you are thinking something else, and a, another thought.
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it's like something, one after the other.
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So what we have to do is to pause and think.
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This is, this is- Yes, pause.
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Yes this is the one of the teaching, and it's a, i- teaching for life.
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When I am confronting a, a problem, I have to pause and let things go.
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Relieve your anxiety, relieve your fears, and be there.
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Be present in that moment, in that solution, with a very positive attitude.
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When you have that, everything open.
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It's like open, your mind is more intelligent.
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Everything is better.
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And that is the solution'cause this is the message I would say, again, from this Psalm.
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Despite of all the Darkness or the negativity or the enemies that we have in life, our own or external, we have to overcome this with a smile in our face say, and open our hands and say,"Hashem, you are my providence, and who is like you?
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There is no one." Mi kamocha bei limadonai, mi kamocha nedar bakodesh norate ilo tosefeli.
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This is a, one of the sentences that we say, before the Amida.
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But is one of the sentences that means that it brings the, the goodness, the lights of Hashem towards us.
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And this is the message in all my talks.
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I want to bring over positivity.
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To be positive in life, to give love in life, to share in life.
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Because when I share, and I share in a sincere way without thinking to have any gratification, any recognition, any retribution from the world, I am here because this is my message.
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This is the message of Hashem.
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Not always I do that, but I try.
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Is thank you.
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Thank you, Amy.
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That is very nice.
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Thank you.
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One more thing.
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Yes.
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One more thing I'd like to add.
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Mm.
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When you do the pause, shortly thereafter I'm wondering if anybody's hearing me.
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Shortly thereafter is to take the breath, to inhale, to hold, to count- Mm one, two, three- Mm and to exhale very, very slowly.
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And I think- Mm-hmm the combination of what you said, just pause, force yourself to pause or just immediately say,"There's a light that needs to come on in my head and in my mindset," and then do the breathing.
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Exactly.
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And then that's it.
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I'm not saying multiple breaths.
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I'm saying just one breath sometimes can flip the light switch.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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Excellent.
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Excellent.
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Okay.
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let's go to the meditation.
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Mm.
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So the meditation that pop up in my mind, is to use this sentence that says,"The Lord will give a strength to the, His people, Israel." So the, despite any difficulties that we can confront Have bitachon and a complete trust into Hashem, b- trust and faith in Hashem, because the Lord is the one that give me my strength.
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And the proof of that is when there is no life, when you have a dead body, there is, is not life because the soul depart the body.
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So what that shows me very clearly that what give me my movement and my life is my soul, the soul.
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And what is the soul?
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The soul is a emanation that comes- from Hashem.
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He is the one that give life to existing, give life to everything that exists in the world.
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So when we say Adonai oz le'amo yiten Adonai yevarech et amo v'shalom, this is how it finish.
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Adonai oz le'amo yiten.
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God, Yud Kei Vav Kei, give to his people, amo, his people, oz, is a strength, to his peoples Israel, and he bless us, and we bless Hashem too.
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What is blessing, the word baruch, that is means blessing, is to draw light down here in the physical world.
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That is the meaning of a blessing.
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That is the meaning of the word baruch.
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Baruch also open the gates, open the locks, open everything.
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And that bring when all the locks are open and our gates are open, and our mind is open, and everything is open, my heart, everything is there, then we are the right vessels.
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The problem is that we block the light to come in.
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We create a surface that makes like the clouds in the sky, you say the gr- gray clouds that doesn't allow the sun rays to be seen in the world.
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We close our eyes, we breathe Lipos When we pause, we breathe, we inhale all the light of Hashem, and we exhale everything that make us feel I- in a way of pain and suffering, and we release our bodies.
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We feel open.
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This feeling of openness is what we want to bring in this meditation.
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We bring holiness into our body, and we exhale all the negativity that we can hold inside.
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Then we see ourself in the center of a Magen David, and we are a column of white light, a pure, beautiful white light, and we are there protected by the shield of David, by a Magen David.
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In front of us appear another Magen David, and in this Magen David, there is a sentence,"Adonai Oz La'amito, Adonai Yevarech Et Amo Bashalom." The Lord will give a strength to his people, and will give us a world of peace, of Shalom.
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We receive that.
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We enter and enter first of all, this light goes to our brain, to each of us in every place where we are located And then descend into our heart and brings this kind of, of love, of kindness inside our chest, in our heart.
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Then descend to our liver that spread all this energy into every organ of our body.
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Then this energy, this light return to our heart, and now there is a movement between heart and brain.
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Heart, brain, heart, brain, heart, brain, heart, brain, heart, brain, heart, brain.
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The light intensify so, so much that we cannot contain in this body that we c- have, and we need to share.
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We need to spread.
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We need to connect.
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So then we are connecting our hands, all of us, that we are in this meditation, and we feel the warmth and the energy of Amy, the energy of Jula- Julie, the energy of Natalie, the energy of Hannah, the energy of Renee, the energy of Emunatova.
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All of us, we are connecting in one, because everything is one.
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We represent the unity and the love of Hakadosh, Baruch Hu, of Hashem.
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And now we have this connection, and this share needs to go to the whole world.
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And we have three witnesses.
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That is Malach Metatron, Malach Sandalphon, and Moshiach.
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And those three spiritual forces are the witnesses of our connection.
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And we bring this light to the whole world, to Europe that is burning, to Israel that is in concerned, We want to diminish the idea of hates that the Iranian people has, the, these fanatics, the Hamas, the left, Also, in Europe we have so many, negativity and they, and penetration of the, fanatic Islamist.
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And we want to bring peace to the world, to bring peace and create the right vessel for Moshiah to come down here and reveal himself and bring the light and healing and health to the whole world.
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We thanks Hashem for this opportunity.
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I thank you for being there, and I keep silence, and now I leave you in your own thoughts in your own vision.
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Thank you