What is a Bris? - Rabbi Mintz Speaks at Torah Mates Retreat

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

please rise in honor of I'm so jealous I was here from Shabbat everybody's raving about so so special so uplifting so spiritual so friendly Bruce is sh everybody bad because of obligations not able to come came today especially double very special to be here so like maybe s [Music] once what do mean very kind of word does sound to Hebrew I don't know it comes from what mean so he spoke I said what does bush mean he says a representative so I asked him what is he representing so he said a very scary idea for because a brid is a treaty between God and the Jewish people when you make a treaty there two sides can't make treat with one side the treaty is God and Jewish people that's the treaty we're making special connection a bond between us and God God and us so the S is representing God he's one side and the father of the baby is the other side son who representative Bush of himself he s represented even though he comes to himself we can't see him comes also but we want somebody to able to see represent him so according to that the S should be the the greatest Rabbi scholar of the Jewish people representing the problem is that greatest Rabbi can't be in all the person not possible to run around all the person so you got to get somebody else so sometimes you have to sett for what you have but as the sound I want to say some words that I think that God would want to be set in his name the people coming to a bris rest representing God the other half of the treaty that's being made and the treaty is when he gave the mitvah this the the I'll be to you as a God

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1. 0:01please rise in honor of I'm so jealous I was here from Shabbat everybody's raving about…
2. 1:03word does sound to Hebrew I don't know it comes from what mean so he spoke…
3. 2:37the the greatest Rabbi scholar of the Jewish people representing the problem is that greatest Rabbi…
4. 3:39that means you're my people and I'm your god what does that mean God is is…
5. 5:14kids being killed by the Arabs we suffer and we cry and we're full of pain…
6. 6:51live that's what je JM is all about Eternal Body and that's we have to feel…
7. 7:54want to call it a place where people reunite with theem to come a month from…
8. 9:33so I think probably it's hard to know that humbling being representing hem at the risk…
9. 10:40we're his people he's our God that means that he wants us to rethink reevaluate our…
10. 12:14in the past show that we realize who we are what God wants from us and…

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