Do Miracles Impress You? How to Empower People (P’Yisro)

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

a story is told the famous asked have smoker nickelsberg who was a great Rabbi and Sadiq and halachis and kabbalist in his own right why is it that you travel to the great magnet of maserich you yourself are a great leader and a great teacher why do you need to go and follow someone else responded that the answer is found in this week's pasture the opening words of this week's parisha ishma Israel and issue I heard what did he hear says Rashi he heard two things he heard number one the miracle of the splitting of the Red Sea how God took the entire Jewish Nation through the Red Sea and how the Egyptians followed and then the sea covered over the Egyptian Army that was the first miracle that he heard then he heard the second thing the war that a mole came and fought against the Jewish people these are the two things that prompted Israel to come and see Moses in the desert and eventually to convert to Judaism of nicholsberg asked the question what does it mean he heard these two things why were these two things the two major episodes that prompted Israeli to go and see Moses so he said this was yesterday's logic yes they said look the splitting of the Red Sea was a big miracle the entire world knew about this miracle because it says all the waters in the world split at the same time they were aware of this great miracle

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1. 0:00a story is told the famous asked have smoker nickelsberg who was a great Rabbi and…
2. 2:04you would think after such a miracle the entire world would become awestrucken with with the…
3. 4:07Reeds all of a sudden it splits the Jews walk right through it and right behind…
4. 6:45so comes along the Torah and tells usually came he came to the desert even though…
5. 8:51the day after Yom Kippur and actually more than a year later what happened was Moses…
6. 11:27and that's the way you're going to have a viable people a viable nation and that's…
7. 13:28the week of the new year for trees there are many lessons for the connection between…
8. 15:34respect to your parents but you don't have 613 Commandments and yet on their own they…
9. 18:07make a declaration I'm going to set the record straight these are a good people these…
10. 20:07river people walked by and said I felt he looked at me he looked through my…

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