Daily Boost Ep 410: Shifting From Physical to Spiritual

What’s said in this shiur

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

when i was in law school i took a class on legal writing i'll never forget the professor walks in the first day and he says my job is to make your sentences lean no extra words no fat so he would write these papers take us forever we hand them in the next day he'd come back and he would say before i even mark them i want everyone to take your papers and take out two words per sentence we're like we create two words per sentence it's like you know how long it took us to write this and you'd sit there and have to figure out how to take out two words but you learned lean no extra words this week's torah portion god commands the jewish people to get oil in the tabernacle then temp then ultimately temple there was a part of it called the nerita mid constant flame never went out god says i want you to put pure olive oil so that there's a constant flame and when he commands the jewish people do that he says take shem inside pure olive oil and then he adds to two words that really don't belong there custis lama or crushed for illumination to raise up this eternal flame but the words casaslama or crushed flammation is totally irrelevant who cares how they're crushed you go to a store yes for olive oil you're not like hey how are these when how are the oils crushed on this thing like it's olive oil it's crushed who the guys were listening to music i don't know what they were thinking i don't know how it was crushed you crush the oil i don't know it goes to like a press

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1. 0:01when i was in law school i took a class on legal writing i'll never forget…
2. 0:33this week's torah portion god commands the jewish people to get oil in the tabernacle then…
3. 1:05to raise up this eternal flame but the words casaslama or crushed flammation is totally irrelevant…
4. 1:35and now comes oil if we have olive oil then we use it to light the…
5. 2:06sweet fruit wine different story olives are the challenges the torah's teaching us something very powerful…
6. 2:38you want to know how you can live on fire it's how you look at challenges…
7. 3:08so you drag out your flame and if every time you see any challenge you should…
8. 3:41he's saying when you crush it have in mind that it's going to illuminate because when…
9. 4:11years or to the next lifetime god is telling us you're the pure olive oil and…
10. 4:43those olives in order to illuminate my candles it's a metaphor for you the bitterness the…

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