Parshat Shekalim - Activating Joy

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The opening of this shiur, in BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Shalom everybody welcome back we have insights in the par of the week it's parat Vel and also par the Shabbat preceding the month of Adar in our case this year Adar bet which is the real Adar the main Adar one is closest to Nissan before we continue just a reminder if these classes have been Illuminating you with the light of abman please share these classes far and wide okay par in his discourse in his book he goes into why does the whole unit of preparation for porm and then preparation for PES and then preparation finally for shab it starts with this Shabbat called Shabbat shim he explains first of all what was shim shalim was an obligatory um M Tax which is really a charity it's a charity tax that every Jew every male over the the age of 20it which translates in other words they have to give a coin per head a head count tax which was really a charity where the proceeds went towards the temple they were called half shekele coins these half shekele coins number one would be used to count the census of one would be used to count the census of the Jews but mainly it went towards purchasing sacrifices and what was necessary for the Temple's uh actual activity all year round which is theor the incense also so the sacrifices the the the the communal sacrifices the Corban tamid Corban the the sacrifices of the community which were offered every morning and every afternoon and towards the evening plus the incense and then by extension all the other things but

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1. 0:00Shalom everybody welcome back we have insights in the par of the week it's parat Vel…
2. 1:32one would be used to count the census of the Jews but mainly it went towards…
3. 3:36atonement and help and light and joy into the world into the Jewish people very simple…
4. 5:39and inculate happiness into the world so it goes to say says that this type of…
5. 7:14problem is the ker it's not easy to get to you have to crack through it…
6. 9:20is not worthy or not worthy enough okay that's our our catch all year round on…
7. 11:25stop what's funny about this is normally when collecting charity for a worthy cause you have…
8. 12:57the golden calf was the sadness and frustration the Jews had the frustration of where the…
9. 14:59closest as possible to the temple and that's the Holy Land which is said giving similar…
10. 17:00and if if you have PES then you have the key to eventually preparing for shab…

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