Channeling pain and frustration into a force for good.
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Classes » The Parsha In My Life
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Weekly Parsha » Vaera » שְׁמוֹת / Exodus
Channeling pain and frustration into a force for good.
Podcast: Download (72.6MB)
Classes » The Thursday Night Shiur
Lecturers » Rabbi Reuven Wolf
Weekly Parsha » Vaera » שְׁמוֹת / Exodus
The backbreaking labor of the Jewish Nation in Egypt, served as a preparation to enable the Torah to be given to them. The Mitzvot that we perform post Sinai are infinitely higher then the Mitzvot preformed by our Patriarchs. To achieve such heights, the generation of the exodus who were a reincarnation of the dispersed generation, required a deep soul cleansing. That is the content of G-d’s response to Moshe in the opening verses of this Torah portion.
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Classes » The Parsha In My Life
Lecturers » Rabbi Reuven Wolf
Weekly Parsha » Vaera » שְׁמוֹת / Exodus
Classes » The Thursday Night Shiur
Lecturers » Rabbi Reuven Wolf
Weekly Parsha » Vaera » שְׁמוֹת / Exodus
The mystical meaning of Egyptian exile both on the cosmic and individual level. G-d transmits his creative energy to the world through a series of attributes that are called vessels. Egypt gets in the way interfering with that process primarily blocking the intellectual attributes from transmitting to the emotional attributes. The redemption is when this blockage is broken through and the emotions are born. This allows the divine life force to reach the creation.
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