Elul: Days of Return #3: The Intro to Yom Kippur

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

all right here we go so uh so I apologize that we didn't really get to uh speak about rashash Shana I was out for those weeks leading up but uh here we are in the aser yua the 10 days of repentance leading up to Yum Kipper and uh and so we have an opportunity to speak about yum Kipper and uh I titled the class the introduction to Yum Kipper now what is the introduction to Yum Kipper how does yum Kipper begin so uh Kipper how does yum Kipper begin so uh most people will tell you well yum Kipper of course begins with kidre that's how uh that's how it starts the kidr night so many people come to sh maybe the most attended uh Gathering of the of the entire year throughout the you know all the all different types of Jews but um but the truth is that yum Kipper does not begin with kidre because before we say kidre there are a couple of things that kidre there are a couple of things that we say and the very very first thing that the K says is the following verse from tahim chapter 97 the PK says or of course he says it in the in the the of what does that mean what does that mean mean or there is light that is planted or sewn for a for the righteous and for those who are straight of heart there is Joy wow that's the opener for yum Kipper that is how we're to get started and of course we have to try to understand what this is about first of all what does this verse mean and why is this the

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1. 0:03all right here we go so uh so I apologize that we didn't really get to…
2. 4:11says hasem the Hashem is like a mikah like a ritual bath for is andik just…
3. 8:24hasem really does give us assistance he gives us what he calls Hur chuva he gives…
4. 12:32the inspiration upon us he gives us those Hur Chua he gives us those thoughts that…
5. 16:36RI rib AA was imprisoned leading up to this so he had he had a student…
6. 20:41it's the words that of this verse in uh in that we open up the Yum…
7. 24:50different types of people it talks about a sadic a righteous person and it talks about…
8. 28:55experience it now though because he's he doesn't it's intellectual it's uh he he's he's fighting…
9. 33:11intimacy we uh we we stand we we we we relinquish all the physical and we…
10. 37:21what matters is our relationship with God and when we F when we can focus on…

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