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The Mystical Significance of Smell

Torah Or Toldos Reah Reiach #3: Smelling the Clothes of Eisav. The mystical significance of smell. The olfactory system can't nourish us but it gets to the very essence of our soul and humanity. Yitzchok needs Eisav to produce a paradisical odor so he can raise him up. When he smells Yaakov he erroneously celebrates the smell he craves to find in his older son.

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How Klipa Lives

Torah Or Reah Rayach #2: Yitzchak's Hopes for Eisav -- and Where He Went Wrong. Klipa, how it lives. All it has it gets from G-d and defines itself by denying Him. How yitzchok hoped to uplift aisav, within his (Eisav's) own body. Why he was wrong and the sublimation must be through Yaakov. The external form of Eisav must be destroyed and only his inner life and energy preserved.

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The Motivation to do Mitzvos

This class talks about the motivation to do mitzvos: feelings (ahava) to hashem, when feels that he lacks in these feelings he compensates for them with the deeds of the mitzvos.

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We Must Understand the Infinite Greatness of This World

In gan eden we experience the life in a higher, less formed level down here. Down here we experience even less, never the less somehow down here we're connected with atzmus. The mitzvos carry the entire truth.

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Gemarah Beitzah Daf 16a

From when are we suppose to prepare for Shabbos, from Fridayor Sunday? Also, when one gives Tzedaka or a present is it preferable for it to remain anonymous or should he make his name known.

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Likkutei Torah Parshas Re’eh Maamar: Ki Sishma B’kol

The outer and inner voices. Emotional and Personal Expressions of Connection to hashem are Secondary Compared to the Relationship beyond, Through Torah one seeks the inner voice, but is inaccessible without accessing the outer voice first.

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Tisha B’Av Video 5774

High quality version of our exclusive animated Tisha B’Av 5774 video by Rabbi YY Jacobson: World War I & the Jews. Tisha B’Av 1914: The Day Europe Went Mad

The two levels of the human Journey: the one we do on our own and the one that requires the help of Moshe and Aaron.

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The Mystical Meaning of Isaac Going Out to the Field

Confronting The Darkness Through Torah Study. Torah Or Maamar Vayetzei Yitzchak -- The Mystical Meaning of Isaac Going Out to the Field

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Torah Or Beshalach -- Az Yashir: The Power of Music

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