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TheYeshiva.net - Torah Or Lech Lecha: Removing the Foreskins of Existence
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www.TheYeshiva.net Torah Or By Rabbi Schnuer Zalman of Liadi Lech Lecha: Velo Yikare Od Shimcha Avram Removing the Foreskins of Existence A New Perspective on the The Cosmic Meaning of a Bris Instructor: Rabbi Yossi Paltiel
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hello this week is patches lakla home so
we're going to learn a mind meditative
alien passion / Los all the moment we're
going to do as you can see on your PDF
is the laker eoh shimka Avram this is
the my med where the Alta Deborah
explains on a mystical level on a
Hasidic level the significance of avril
lavigne whose name being changed he
started out with one name of rum then he
had his name changed to Avraham you have
to explain both why he's a name was
initially Avram and why it was later
changed to Avraham but first a story
there ever I would have arrived in New
York and 1941 in let's say may his
father mother feel the cab was already
here the feeder cable was quite limited
physically at that point in his life and
naturally the rebus stood to a great
degree in the forefront of the
activities of lubavitch at that time he
oversaw all the outreach work and the
various other organizations at the Field
Academy ran but there ever was as we all
know incredibly dedicated and loyal to
his father-in-law de fier de que debe
and everyone said revealed an
interesting little detail and that was
that frequently while there were events
happening in the shul that used to be
called in those days downstairs the
previous level would turned out an
intercom and listening in other words
that ever our rabbit was making a CMS
actor or otherwise fab ranking or making
some kind of a talk on whatever topic it
was and his father-in-law the previous
level would listen in so that ever said
he always felt strange about that
because it's a well-known thing that
when you stand in the presence of it
ever you keep quiet then you show
respect and deference here he was
leading an event that was his role that
was a responsibility with the full
awareness that his father-in-law is
listening in had his father-in-law that
ever been in the room that ever would
have been silent but to him it was
essentially the same thing the Frida
club is listening to him and yet he
leadership role and that ever explained
in effect that he struggled with this
here i am talking and that ever who is
my teacher is listening in and the
answer that he gave was doses fostered a
bevel this is the devas warned trevor
wants that we should rank never once
that we should have these conversations
never once for us to take initiative and
that's part of the reason he's not in
the room he's upstairs to give us space
and therefore although it's quite
uncomfortable because all of us know
that then evan is paying attention
nevertheless we do what we must do and
there ever finish telling the story as
it was at that time after the previous
ever passed away that there's still the
presence of that ever yet his evacuating
his departure on some level gives us an
opportunity to be able to sort of speak
bring ourselves forward this story is
consistent with a an idea found in
Cassidy's in anger motor that says that
when one is in the presence of a king
they're not allowed to make a muscle
move a muscle now that i make any kind
of motion it's done the presence of the
king you can't even point with your
finger the time that is considered quote
standing in front of the king is when we
pray when we daven lachemann yesterday
here comes the question isn't god always
around is not always present aren't we
always in the residence of god and as a
consequence that would inhibit us
terribly we would be able to move just
as we cannot move when we daven and of
course the answer is that this is the
upside to why God hides the world as we
experience it seems to be without
obvious presence of God this concealment
which is a great challenge to us also
creates the framework in which we are
able to do what we need to do to
ultimately reincorporate to bring God
back into this world that he created and
make this world into his and that's the
heart that's the soul that's the spirit
in this particular moment to explain the
need or the justification for the sort
of speak evacuation the emptying of this
reality from a revealed presence of God
not only to challenge us and to hide
from us but the create opportunity which
will allow us to be able to do what we
need to do to be sure in the tanya
section to value a chapter 6 paddock
volvo of shoddy coger una the other day
I said something incredible he says
Obama has said you bona which means
literally the world was created through
kindness but the out that I've
interprets it a little bit different he
said oil immersed in the word Helen the
concealment of God which is the creation
of the world is a great act of kindness
if God would not hide we would have no
opportunity and God's concealment is not
about concealment it's about creating an
environment in which we were able to
what we need to do and what must we do
bring God back into his world and this
model this insight explains and
justifies the fact that Avraham was
initially called Avram the letter called
Elohim alternatively for 99 years of his
life he was uncircumcised in a
particular point he needed to be
circumcised