Posts by: Shais Taub

Day 193 (Daily Sefer HaMitzvos)

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Day 193: Negative Commandment 106; Positive Commandment 87

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Mayim Rabim: Class 3—Purpose of the Soul's Descent

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The soul descends from a place of spiritual perfection and is plunged into the harrowing conditions of embodiment. All of this is actually a descent for the sake of a subsequent ascent. The soul in heaven is a "tzadik" but the embobied soul can become a "baal teshuvah," an incomparably greater level in closeness with Hashem.

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Day 194 (Daily Sefer HaMitzvos)

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Day 194: Negative Commandment 107; Positive Commandment 107

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Jewish and Alone?

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Avraham our father was one person against the world. And yet he also became a great leader and ambassador to people of all nations. This is the Jewish paradox. And the reason why some of us may be feeling very alone.

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Day 195 (Daily Sefer HaMitzvos)

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Day 195: Positive Commandment 107

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Day 196 (Daily Sefer HaMitzvos)

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Day 196: Positive Commandment 107

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Day 197 (Daily Sefer HaMitzvos)

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Day 197: Positive Commandment 107

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Day 198 (Daily Sefer HaMitzvos)

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Day 198: Positive Commandment 107

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Lesson 85—Text Based Tanya

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Concluding the theme of love and awe of Hashem begun in Ch. 41, a new type of love is introduced here in Ch. 50 that is in a whole different category from all previously discussed forms of love.

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Day 199 (Daily Sefer HaMitzvos)

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Day 199: Positive Commandment 107

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Day 200 (Daily Sefer HaMitzvos)

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Day 200: Positive Commandment 107

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Mayim Rabim: Class 4—How Can the Soul Possibly Get Any Higher?

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Previously we explained that although the mayim rabim (worries about making a living) are from a lofty spiritual source, the soul is from an even higher source, ie the Essence of G-d. However, we also said that the purpose of the descent into embodiment was so that the soul can have an even greater ascent. But how can it ascend higher if it is already coming from the highest level?

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