Year: 5772 - Beshalach - audio

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Containment and Potential - The theme of Beshalach focuses on the concept of existential transition. Which translates here into the stages of the fear of liberty, the questioning of the nature of Freedom itself, whether there is meaning whether there is context and therefore it becomes a Parasha that represents transition on every level, transition on the national level transition into freedom on a human level ultimately the history of this planet transition on an individual level of being able to interrelate the aspects of ones context to the text of one’s life to the particular elements of one’s life and it turns out that it very much relates to the experience that we have of our biological roots the continued presence of the vessel of femininity with in our lives and the goals we have of Olam Habbah and the way they relate to the events of our lives themselves.
(BW) This fourth parasha of the ge'ulah deals with something much more subtle than the others. Beshalach focuses on the concept of existential transition, which translates into stages progressing from the fear of liberty, to the question of the nature of freedom, to whether there is meaning, whether there is context. Therefore, this parasha represents transition on every level – in terms of the nation, human history, and the life of every individual – i.e., being able to interrelate the context of one's life to the text of one's life. This shiur presents a new model of how our biological roots and the continued presence of femininity in our lives relates to Olam Habah, and creates a vessel for randomness and the particular events of our lives. We discover how this model differs from Western perspectives and the approach of Bilaam.