We're All Co-Producers in the Story of Life! Create Light Not Darkness

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

when we Ponder the story of life and creation so clearly clearly our focus is on God the Creator and the world he created and of course God had a plan in mind for this creation and we see in the Torah you know the words of the Torah show us a concrete expression of that Divine will what had what hasm had in mind s of speak from his world and we can sometimes see the stories unfold and literally parts of the Torah are etched in stone in fact we're told later on when the Jews were in the desert coming into Israel they they actually carved out the entire Torah in on Stone and that that kind of gives the impression of of of permanence unchangeable yet yet there's another part of creation which we we must acknowledge why because it's us we are a big part of this creation human beings were placed in a pinnacle most important position in creation we we're created last and one idea behind that is that the entire purpose of creation is for us and therefore you know just like a bride and groom come at the very end onto the onto the and that's when a wedding begins so to life the story of life begins with Mankind and therefore we count the beginning of the of the year not from the first day of creation but from the sixth day the day that Adam and Eve were created because they Mark the beginning of of of of creation the beginning of Life not the the six days or that the five days preced eating those were prep prepatory days those were days of preparation Hashem made set the stage put things in order but life

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1. 0:00when we Ponder the story of life and creation so clearly clearly our focus is on…
2. 3:44bringing mhia and bring this world to Perfection the answer is an absolute definite yes how…
3. 8:00detail the Jews leave Egypt and they get stuck again because of the sin of the…
4. 12:19left Egypt unbelievable this is the story of Passover and the very first Passover happened in…
5. 17:03and kind of were weakened of heart they gave up and cried that night and that…
6. 21:20years 37 years we lost the for 37 years because why that's the big question why…
7. 25:07ability to to to to force us to be slaves they could do anything with us…
8. 29:16lose out on the cor PES the special Mitzvah mosha said I'll ask Hashem and he…
9. 33:31kindness the kindness and your love for me in your youth when you were broken people…
10. 37:50whose Mitzvah is it not my Mitzvah it's aem's Mitzvah but there's a big here God…

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