28. Korach-Gimmel Tammuz 5780: Infinite Connection --Integrating The Head With The Foot

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/avrohom.lipszyc/videos/10158190287103257/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/hachaim/28-korach-gimmel-tammuz-5780-infinite-connection-integrating-the-head-with-the-foot Written: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oun3c3p6ccevrbs/28.%20korach-3%20tammuz%20--infinite%20connection%20-intergrating%20the%20head%20with%20the%20foot.pdf?dl=0 YouTube: https://youtu.be/w2eo5d4NasA --- For the modern-day issue of this lecture I want to introduce the concept of interdependence. Let us begin with three different social definitions1: DEPENDENCE - has to do with relying upon or being controlled by someone. Pet’s and children, for instance, are dependent upon their owners/parents. INDEPENDENCE - has to do with not relying upon, not being controlled by, or even controllable. INTERDEPENDENCE - mutually dependent, but with options and reciprocity, and without control. Harold Kelley and John Thibaut developed interdependence theory over the course of 4 decades, beginning in the 1950s. Interdependence theory describes the structural properties that characterize interactions and the implications of such structure for human psychology. Whereas most psychological theories focus on the individual, suggesting that people behave as they do because of their unique experiences or cognitions or personalities, interdependence theory regards the relationships between people as important as the people themselves. Thus, the theory represents a much-needed model of the nature and implications of interdependence; it is a truly social psychological theory.2 Many believe that the preferred state is total independence. However, that is an ego-driven opinion. In truth, for the very commencement of any social existence, in which Adam went from being the sole human, to Eve being created, G-d stated (-Genesis 2:18), “And the Lord G-d said, ‘It is not good that man is alone; I shall make him a helpmate opposite him.’” A holistic approach to this verse will reveal that every human being has areas in which they must accept being dependent, independent, and interdependent. In this lecture, we are going to define how these three different experiences exist within the Jewish people as a nation, within the individual, within the community, and within the relationship between a Rebbe and his chosid. This lecture is based primarily on a maamor (-Link) the Rebbe orally delivered on Shabbat Tetzaveh in 1981, and then edited it for print in 1992, and personally distributed to each and every chosid. This maamor was the last maamor that the Rebbe edited before his stroke, and has become viewed as the Rebbe’s Maamor Hilula, which serves as the Rebbe’s spiritual Last Will and Testament. 1. https://www.quora.com/ 2. http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/