Parshas Naso: The Sotah Waters and Making Marriage Work

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

we have a very interesting topic this evening and uh this week's parashat parshas nasai we encounter quite a mysterious procedure in the torah the saita we are you have a woman who's accused of being unfaithful to her husband and they bring her to the destination and there's question what really happened was she actually in fact unfaithful or not and the cayenne takes the special waters and they take the name of hashem which was written by kadusa they put the name was written by kadusa they put the name in the waters the god the name of god is erased and if in fact this woman was unfaithful to her husband she dies a gruesome death however if the accusations against her were unfounded then the gemara tells us she's blessed she has children and if she had children before she has more beautiful children more successful children and god says i will stick my neck out i will allow my name to be erased in order to foster peace and harmony tells us the name of god which is written in holiness of the torah tells us that it should be raised through the waters the shalom in order to create peace being between the husband and wife after all he's accused her of being unfaithful there's no way in a million years he's taken her back unless he could prove without a shadow beyond the shadow of a

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