Lag BaOmer Day of Dignity May 11, 2020

1:00:20 3 speakers 16 chapters 129 segments

Chapters

  1. 0:02

    Okay, so first of all, let me greet everyone who's joining us for this Monday night session. Thank you to Gemma who's making it happen. Gemma, I can see people are logged on to my screen, but are the other feeds operating? Can I just procee…

  2. 5:27

    49 is the number of the material world. Seven elements in seven layers. The 50th is transcendent. The 50th is beyond. On the way down into the dark side, the 50th means the place of no return. Beyond the system. Completely disintegrated. On…

  3. 9:41

    Okay, that's the idea. Now, let's take the next step. This count is broken into two steps, two stages. Like Ba'omer, the 33rd day of the Omer. What's significant about that? 32 days of the Omer, and then there's the 33rd. And then 17 left. …

  4. 15:00

    observe. There's a meaning to those 32 days, and that's why they died then. It's very important to know that. The secular view is, 32 days, that's when the epidemic took place, that's when they suffered the plague and they died. So why do w…

  5. 19:56

    So the words will be clumsy, I must warn you, I apologize. I'll do my best. Let me say the idea first, and then I'll try to explain it. The first level is inner work. The 32 is work that is within. That's the lev, the heart. Once the heart …

  6. 25:00

    when we talked about silence. One of the past weeks we talked about silence. And we explained that for everything that is revealed, there must be a silent heart that is deeper than what can be revealed. For everything that can be revealed o…

  7. 27:33

    And not your outer revelation. That's another quality. But how much of the inner is revealed on the outside is your dignity? And it's a very subtle and sensitive thing. I'm not talking about rights and left brain, Howard. I'm talking about …

  8. 33:01

    We move from the world of existence into the world of reproduction. Below the diaphragm is the dimension that takes me into the future. Heart and lungs is where I live now. Below the diaphragm, digestion, reproduction, that which takes me i…

  9. 34:49

    When you hold a seed, you understand this, when you hold a little acorn in your head. Think of this acorn, it's a seed. You're holding an explosion of eternity in your head. That little seed has a whole... tree locked into it. But not just …

  10. 39:54

    is a revelation of a genuine content, genuine content. If a person has content and no revelation in the world, there's no dignity. And if a person has no content and reveals dignity in the world. There was a great songwriter, another songwr…

  11. 41:14

    Afternoon, just wherever you're holding at the moment. Why their 32 teeth? Teeth is the junctional zone between outside and inside. Halakhically, an injury external to the teeth, not life-threatening. You don't break Shabbat for that. Any i…

  12. 44:29

    This is a diagram I must thank Rabbi Hirsch found for me once in an old edition. The Toaster's Yontif, very, very amazing. And he managed to nab it for me. Here you see, there's a diagram of the 10. This is the Toaster's Yontif diagram of t…

  13. 49:57

    And revealing everything is ultimate vulgarity. What is dignity? It's revealing the right amount. Dignity doesn't mean revealing nothing. That's not dignified. That's just hiding. But it's exactly the right amount. Garments are dignity. Why…

  14. 52:06

    There's an old book by Thomas Carlyle, we're going back a long time, that's called Sartor Risartis. Sartor Risartis. A Latin name. What is a sartor? Who speaks Latin? What's sartor? No, tell me please. Sartor is? What is sartorial elegance?…

  15. 53:41

    A woman's elegance is when she's presented correctly. That's a beauty. That's a real dignity and a beauty. A woman's beauty doesn't mean she hides herself completely. Some women think that sneers means making themselves look ugly. Some ladi…

  16. 58:54

    That's what you're here for, is to become a perfect reflection for that. That's what we say. What are we waiting for the time when Hashem is revealed? That's what He is. What are we praying when we say, Hashem, we want you to reveal yoursel…