Are You Returning Lost Jews? - The Seering Indictment of the Chofetz Chaim

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

In Par's it says the Ramban points out that here the Torah adds the word In our it says in it says toya implies it's straight off the path and you could turn it back on the road without much effort. Now in it saysimid is it ran away from you. It's distant and it mentions in that that it's that it's in other words in paras it says it doesn't say in paras it's like lost it's far and lost says, "If the Tory takes so much pity on Jewish money, even his donkey or sheep, that he dist every single Jew has an obligation to bring home, the donkey or the sheep. So if you have to take out time from your schedule and put an effort to return lost animals, on Jewish souls that have strayed from the road even if it's going to take a lot of work to bring them back says that means this guy is he loses his his toothbrush every single day. Every day you have to bend down, pick up the toothbrush and return it to him after 97th time. Are you potter? No, you're still But the guy's an irresponsible. Okay, your obligation is return his item. From here we learn even if you have to put in a hundred efforts He says to bring back Jews who have gone astray.

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1. 0:33In Par's it says the Ramban points out that here the Torah adds the word In…
2. 1:04turn it back on the road without much effort. Now in it saysimid is it ran…
3. 2:07bring home, the donkey or the sheep. So if you have to take out time from…
4. 2:38even if it's going to take a lot of work to bring them back says that…
5. 3:40Says even outright sinners most of the time they're not doing it. They're not doing it…
6. 4:41who doesn't know how to return. It's a great mitzvah to have mercy on them to…
7. 5:11capabilities in Tyra that Hashem gave them wisdom and understanding. They are worthy to be called…
8. 6:20You didn't seek out the lost. I will hold you accountable for my sheep. What was…
9. 6:50Hashem was saying, "Why didn't you strengthen those Jews that were ill? Why didn't you seek…
10. 7:51there is a outlying village that their mikvah has fallen into disuse. Can one of the…

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