Kislev – Chanukah – Medameh – Illusion – Yetzer Hara – Advancing from Level to Level – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. (Shiur for Mir Yeshiva students. Recorded 2017-11-23). Spiritual progress depends on the ability to see through illusions and how to view setbacks. Chanukah is a time when illusions can best be dispelled.
00:00 – Introduction and PARAGRAPH 1. Who were the “Wise Men of Athens?” What is true wisdom? How can we harness the power of imagination?
02:54 – PARAGRAPH 2. Advancing from level to level in serving HaShem. Purifying each new spiritual territory we acquire.
23:55 – PARAGRAPH 3. No two people are alike in their spiritual progress.
24:21 – PARAGRAPH 4. The magnetic radiance of gold and silver, the golden calf.
32:14 – PARAGRAPH 5.Tzedakah (charity).
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