A Torah shiur by Rabbi Mendel Kessin on the method of Torah study and thought.
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watch later could you just briefly summarize the one the last one the missed one the previous mishna yeah just like three minutes i mean two or three minutes um who would like to summarize it you mean the previous mush now yeah whatever we did last time his wife died he washed his face he washed himself the first night that his wife died he was an avail right so tamidum said didn't he teach us that novellas also to watch that novellas also to watch she said to them i'm not getting anybody else i'm an easterness very sensitive so who remembers what we said so we founded the base case we looked to find the base case what was base case that regulator is yeah the norm is what is that a novel cannot wash his face cannot wash his face as a novel when one of his immediate relatives die one of the things that is forbidden is uh is washing yet right now we are washed so they asked them we don't understand you taught us that you can't do that so the answer is i need yeah so the question is okay how do we begin to analyze this so how we started with what we look like the norm case and we tried to find the principle yes why because to find the principle yes why because this case is a case of what deviation a deviation right so before you can deal with deviation you need to deal with the norm that's why people learn anatomy and physiology before they learn disease because the disease is a deviation from the norm the normal functioning of the anatomy and physiology yes there are dope there so therefore before you can deal with deviation we obviously have to deal with the norm and the norm is you can't do it can't
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