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Rethinking Evil

Rethinking Evil

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Likkutei Torah: Parshas Chukas VaYa’as Moshe Part 1 Concept Background to the Ma’amer: I. The verse: See for yourself in the preceding verse: Rashi writes that one had to gaze intently at the copper snake for the healing to work. Rashi: Moshe Rabbeinu wasn’t told to make it out of copper, but since Hashem called it a “nochosh” (“snake,” in Hebrew) he made it out of “nechoshes” (“copper”). (Bereishis Rabbah 19:31:8) II. Love and Fear. These are the two extremes…

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Iggeres HaT’Shuva: Beggining of Chapter Three; Tammuz 10, 5775

Iggeres HaT’Shuva: Beggining of Chapter Three; Tammuz 10, 5775

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Previously, the Alter Rebbe established what fasting is for. Now he explains that there is a set number of fasts for every sin. If we did a sin that requires 84 fasts, but we did the sin ten or twenty times, we still only fast 84 x 3. Not because we’re lenient, but because after three times, the damage has spread to the furthest reaches.