Please fix the mic, thank you for the video.

Thank you Rabbi.

Bli neder I will keep learning this over and over again and start using my free choice and my brain always.

Please fix the volume it is too low as usual!

I love these shirs but lately the audio is only mono and very low sound.

Perhaps another way to look at SELF-AWARENESS is - the human has a CONSTANT ABSTRACTION from wherever and whatever - but - the animal does not:; like you said - the awareness is there only when the eyes are open.

What you call the SELF refers to the ineffable presence of G-D, the source of all SELVES and their constant ability to ABSTRACT.

This choice between living like an animal in the matrix or whether to be a cause is in that movie the matrix when Neo is presented with a choice (intro free will) between a red pill (to stay in the matrix), or blue pill (to be a cause). Also I learned from this shiur and this same concept how to play better poker. I know we arent allowed to gamble but I 'm playing play money in order to practice being a cause cos in poker the people who are making moves are likely to win pots whereas those who just call into everything and wait only on good hands always are beaten by those who make strategic and not passive moves. You have play every hand from start to finish even bad hands and folding is is a move because it's based on logic. Now many times you see people playing hands aggressively and badly and they are winning very big pots and all they rely on is people passively making bad moves and passively calling into the aggressor and this bad aggrssor usually wins and it goes on and on. The trick is not to be perturbed by all this going on at the tables and keep playing good no matter what hand you get. (when corrupt wealth flourishes pay it no heed).

Doesn't the JOY you describe in the future state of perfection refer to the absence of what we have in this world -and that is a constant state of increasing entropy STENCH, and eventually DEATH! What we experience here is described as pleasure; but the Superior and supreme version of this in the world to come, is called - Joy!

What varies as you explained isn't self awareness, you have it or don't have it. But the ability to view yourself as yourself otherwise you cannot experience Olam Haba. God in essence could have created us as malachim who exist because God grants them existence and they are ok with it they do not feel disempowered at all, but why did God create man with this condition, a simple answer can be that it's because we are derived from God and are tzelem Elokim, now this would explain on a pshar level that the person being derived feels that they must be a true cause. But it isn't enough of an answer. The true answer is that God gave man this drive as a fundamental yeitzer, like the inclination for self preservation, just like the yeitzer to procreate and the yeitzer that we once had for avodah zara which is keneged nevua in the realm of kedusha. God gave man this yeitzer so that the neshama would come down, other wise it wouldn't it would not engage in it's task, and this task is fundamental for acquiring life in a true sense. God cannot give us anything otherwise we cannot become what God intended us to become. What we are to become is through the by product of our choices, of merging the physical and the spiritual and creating a new metziut, on that never existed before and wasn't created by God but by our choices. The neshama guides the guf through it's illumination but the body contains the ability to view oneself as a self but that which is considered nitziut or eternal is neither the neshama or the guf but the by product of both and the reality that is created from it, this is why it says ayin lo raata. Because it never existed and cannot exist unless the individual creates it. What also varies is our davekut to God, this is why people may have different levels in olam haba, it all depends on our endeavors to attach ourselves to God, olam haba is only this nothing more and nothing less.

Perhaps the following is an explanation of the Holocaust: since you are in some sense a reflection of G-D, aware that you're aware, knowing that you know - without any cause, like a Hall of mirrors where you don't see or know the original object - therefore, you embody the absolute unity of all traits. This means that every characteristic and force are EXQUISITELY BALANCED - unlike God's contraction and this world, which is full of Mercy and the mitigating circumstances we experience. And that is what we experienced during the horrible Holocaust, because we are supposed to be this human version of a CAUSELESS BEING!

The word עין eye. עין the letter ע is made of נ ז. So עין is נ זין. The נ is the first and last letter of עין, so it is a klal-ufrat-uklal, with the klal the נ. The נ is נפילה. But in the middle is יז. And יז is 17 = good. So the 'good' is the פרט in the middle of נפילה. So all is good! There is no such thing as 'bad'. That is the meaning of pirkei avos: the greatest quality is עין טוב. The recognition that all is good, there is no bad.

We can use this concept to get off the trail of the klipah so that we aware of it and stop getting sucked in all the time. I sick of the paedophile amalek klipah that takes advantage of children and those who rely on the care of others

,Dan, in ksav assuri makes the letter Tav. Tav is the last letter, the end. ,Dan anochi, = I am the end, tav. Not 'anochi dan' . Judgement is olam emes, truth comes even before and anochi.