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Project Likkutei Sichos — 20 vayechi 1 Sicha Summary English 5783

Выпуск: Project Likkutei Sichos — 20 vayechi 1 Sicha Summary English 5783. Темы: не определены автоматически. The truest form of Divine service is when a person motivates As Yaakov’s passing approached, he called themselves to approach G-d, when they use his children to his bedside: "Gather and I their own talents and resources to fulfill His will tell you what will happen to you at the will. (Pesachim Furthermore, the ultimate, irreversible 56a) redemption has to come through a Divine The Question: service that is similarly “irreversible.” When one’s efforts are inspired by an external The ultimate redemption would be source, they are not self-sufficient and thousands of years away from Yaakov’s therefore they are subject to termination. Even his aborted desire to indicated that his children were not yet reveal the end-date influences his children ready for this top-down inspiration, and still in an abstract way to be able to find the needed to develop their own spiritual paths internal motivation to serve G-d without to redemption. (Bereishis 49:1) propelled by a knowledge of imminent The Sages explain: Yaakov desired to reveal redemption, then it would not be coming the date of the final redemption, but the from their own efforts. What possible benefit could there When a person has to muster their own be to reveal to them that their descendants resolve to serve G-d, then it stands the test would be wallowing in interminable exile? Why, then, did Yaakov attempt to reveal the Therefore, the end date that Yaakov wanted end-date to his children and rob them of to reveal to his children was only the opportunity to do their own work? He assumed that his children had also done so, and therefore thought it The Lesson: was time to reveal the end-date so they Being a “chariot” to G-d’s will, Yaakov surely could hasten it even sooner. so that he would appreciate the value of We, too, must demand from G-d to reveal internally motivated spiritual work and the end-time of the future redemption, understand his children’s perspective. emboldened to increase their good deeds Yaakov had already refined his portion of and faith and thereby elicit from G-d an the material world and reconciled it with Divine unity. With this Yaakov spiritual station is identified as the knowledge, perhaps his children would be world of Atzilus, where Divine unity reigns.

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Project Likkutei Sichos

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