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Metzorah - Rav Shimshon Of Ostropolle Uncovers the Secret of How A Mikvah Operates

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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Right. Okay. Shabasai, as we prepare for parasy, I have very good news. The next safe in the queue is safe, which was just completed yesterday. It's being submitted for publication by our scroll with the will be a seinal work. And if anybody would like to participate in its publication, uh this volume is dedicated by Mishbahas Mesh and Harris in Cleveland. Uh you can still participate in its publication. It's Bezos Hashem, a work that could have a big uh impact. Bezos, I want to share with everyone an amazing revelation of Rab Shamshin of Ashtapole. also mentions this in a few places. You know the says the has to he has to wash in water all his flesh. The garra says in water that his whole body we translate it as fits in the mats has to be toy in water that his whole body fits in. How much is that? One by one one wide one long by three am tall. Kazal determined that one amma by one by three are 40 saw of a mikvah asked of Shamshin of Ashal quoted in he says why does the say his whole body comes up in them it should say water that his whole body is covered in not water that his whole body goes up in says in the name of could mean B like Truma is in 101 can mean so what does it

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  1. 0:00Right. Okay. Shabasai, as we prepare for parasy, I have very good news. The next safe…
  2. 0:35It's Bezos Hashem, a work that could have a big uh impact. Bezos, I want to…
  3. 1:11in water that his whole body we translate it as fits in the mats has to…
  4. 1:44in he says why does the say his whole body comes up in them it should…
  5. 2:20mean water that his whole body is in ah in 40 there 900 60 lug in…
  6. 2:52sa and there four sa in a log. So 4 * 6 is 24 * 40…
  7. 3:23goes into a mikvah a person is a barrier but he becomes bal and 960. So…
  8. 3:54the reason for 960 in a mikvah he says something amazing 960 is 16 * 60.…
  9. 4:24elements. All 16 elements need basha. So if man consists of 16 elements then you need…
  10. 4:56Elmer. By the way, that's why the B Saskar says that the 40 days of chuva…

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