Small moments mean the most - Parashat Metzora - Rabbi Alon Anava

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

[Music] we are in a parashat methora usually parashat and matsura are read together but this year like many others we only read the parashat of mitsura which both tazri and mitsura are kind of talking about the same thing and besides talking about all the religions of tsarat but the idea the topic the concept of these two parashots are uh everything that we do with our mouths gossiping and so forth so before we start i just want to share with you a quick story that once there was a rosh yeshiva of a very very big yeshiva that one day he comes to his students and he tells them stop everything that you're doing i'm going to do now assume a completion of the talmud of the government and i want you all to join me okay so you didn't quite understand what's the big deal you did that already many times that you did assume a completion of the entire wow why now in the middle of the day without any announcements suddenly you're calling us all so he says this is a very special scene for me and i'll tell you why that many years ago i understood that we're wasting so much time between things those little moments that you don't really do anything and it's just wasted time i decided to learn in those three minutes every time that i have a few minutes so i have a little magazine in my pocket and every time waiting for the bus standing in banking in the banking line waiting for my wife to be ready when

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2. 5:41go up to the heavens to shaman they're going to show us each and every one…
3. 12:02and cups and everything and your clothes remove everything but then the coin declares this is…
4. 17:49parole and tell him release all your slaves and yeah he's gonna laugh at me argument…
5. 24:48but we can't appoint a king over us who's not born jewish besides like he told…
6. 31:03that you're hinting that there's a sonar to talk about what does that mean you come…
7. 36:49have a beard so same thing here shaolin goals and kings of kohen gadol it's unheard…
8. 43:13the main power that the individual the human has is speech if the torah says that…
9. 49:03it's talking about torah so our sages teach us these are the words that i have…
10. 55:28that you can take the speech to any direction he wants so you need to choose…

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