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Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Re'eh (Video 193)

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Rabbi Yehoshua Balkany

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Good evening. Um this upcoming week is paras and it is shabas we have uh it should be Sunday Monday roes and it's l as I've said to you you know that Arab as I've said to you you know that Arab rodesh is called yum kipper cotton and yum kipper cotton people come to shu they ling val and they fast now this week that we're going to have rokes mo shabas and Sunday night so you can't fast air of ros kotes that shabas so they bring it back to Thursday and if you go into Shom Shabas you'll and if you go into Shom Shabas you'll see 200 people uh saying yum kiper cotton and and preparing for the month and many don't do this seder every every rodish but this era of rokes since it's Hello. It's a very very special apicious time. We're ushering in a new year. It's We're ushering in a new year. It's already here. It seems like it was just yesterday that we had Rashana last year. And here we are once again. Now from Roshesh el in tolum kipper is 40 days and in 40 days you have 24 hours in each day which means from rodes and through yum kipper you have 960 yum kipper you have 960 hours. Now in a mikvah that is mahik. It purifies all the spirituality of a person that when you go into a mikvah the mikvah consists of 40 saw. Saw is a measurement and there has to be 40 saw. If you have 39 saw, it's not an effective mikvah to

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  1. 0:00Good evening. Um this upcoming week is paras and it is shabas we have uh it
  2. 5:12that when he hears how we make kdesh and how we say divora and how we
  3. 10:35and we are able to succeed in withholding and devouring and overcoming each and every temptation
  4. 15:53the day came in and said I've decided you're trustworthy and loyal I'm going to put
  5. 21:13individual couple who said take my name and erase it to help bring the process of
  6. 27:03that most yen end up eating half of the food in their lifetime that it's not
  7. 32:56and and I made a statement that I think the government should have considered this or
  8. 38:04or their problems with their personality in how much and ramen they exude amongst their community
  9. 43:21or dimes and that they are to see that every single child in the classroom before
  10. 48:34says that each you add on three months of life to you. So 88 times is

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