Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, a frequent contributor of articles and media to chabad.org, is Permanent Scholar-in-Residence to Chabad at Harvard, and Dean of the Institute of American and Talmudic Law in New York, NY. Rabbi Yaffe has lectured and led seminars throughout North America, as well as in Europe and South Africa.
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What scripture is he quoting when he says "make for Me a dwelling place and I will dwell within them"?
Anonymous
July 14, 2010
Incredible Lecture
Thank you so much Rabbi Yaffe and Chabad.org for this incredible lecture. Very inspiring. G-d willing I hope to "carry" this with me throughout the day and really try to see the "ordinary stuff of life" in a whole new light.
Anonymous Cleveland, OH
July 12, 2010
The Tango
I can't help but feel and think that I am dancing to a hidden riddle. Even if my actions are sometimes lower than my expectations I am still required to keep on dancing. Now I don't want to sound like a riddle so let me get to my point. My ability to focus to this lesson was like a man in a boat, sometimes the boat rocked this way and sometimes the other way. What remained constant was that I continued to try to reach my destination. Sometimes sleepy and other times a bit more awake. The purpose of my a concentration was that I unriddle the knot between the Rabbi and achieve understanding. I believe that what he was saying was that we build a bridge with physical work while the sanctuary that is the design becomes more available with the collected effort to create true understanding. The actual knowledge of individual comprehension is not revealed until the collected effort arrive at the gate. This will destroy the effort to understand and reveal the understanding of effort.
Cambridge, MA
Cleveland, OH
I can't help but feel and think that I am dancing to a hidden riddle. Even if my actions are sometimes lower than my expectations I am still required to keep on dancing. Now I don't want to sound like a riddle so let me get to my point. My ability to focus to this lesson was like a man in a boat, sometimes the boat rocked this way and sometimes the other way.
What remained constant was that I continued to try to reach my destination. Sometimes sleepy and other times a bit more awake. The purpose of my a concentration was that I unriddle the knot between the Rabbi and achieve understanding. I believe that what he was saying was that we build a bridge with physical work while the sanctuary that is the design becomes more available with the collected effort to create true understanding.
The actual knowledge of individual comprehension is not revealed until the collected effort arrive at the gate. This will destroy the effort to understand and reveal the understanding of effort.
Las Vegas, Nv