Parshas Shemini: Rav Chaim Kanievsky's Electrifying Question on the Vilna Gaon

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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.

generation of such a caliber of a talmud and a sadiq i want to share with you an idea on parashat shmini and i didn't even know rebhaim koniewski would make it into this week's shira but of course you know that's just the way things always work we're going to examine a very important pasuk it's a fundamental pufzak in every possible sense and especially in the uh vein that this is the middle word these are the middle words of the whole torah and para pasuk tazayin mashabenu cannot understand why aranakayan did not eat from the sawyer of rosh choidash arama kinda just received the news that his children la eleno two of them passed away and arna kayan although he did partake of two of the carbonites but he did not partake of the sorrow of raj dash and the posix says paragur posiktas and the sawyer of rosh khadesh maisha expounded he searched why didn't aro need it what happened to it no vihina is so rough behold it was burnt and mushroom got angry on allah why didn't you eat it the middle words of the torah why are these the middle words of the torah what is so important about the words da rois darash that these are the middle words of the torah says the dagger efraim this teaches us that what the torah is about is constant seeking constant inquiry constant delving that's the core of the torah what is torah not just to sit there and read words to sit back and hear a nice entertaining shear the purpose of the turret is to delve

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