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הדף היומי מסכת שבועות דף ד

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Rabbi Dovid Hofstedter

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[Music] Shavuot page, with the help of God, line 11 from the top, in the word May, when a baby is born, they swear to him, "Be righteous and do not be wicked," as is narrated in Tractate Nida page, the son of the Admor, the glorious [ __ ] of Radomsk, the holy Rabbi, Rabbi Avraham of Sar Rabinowitz, in his book, Chesed La Avraham, about the holiday of Shavuot, that these shavuot are implied in the opening of our tractate, Tractate Shavuot, which the Mishnah says, "Two shavuots," which are four. In simple terms, the Torah terms, the Torah warns against an oath that a person utters with his lips to harm himself. For example, he swore that he would not eat to benefit himself. For example, he swore that he would eat. If he breaks the oath, he is obligated. These are two oaths that are explained in the verse, which are four, even when the repentance is about the even when the repentance is about the past. He swore that he did not eat and it turns out that he did eat. He swore that he did eat and it turns out that he did not eat. He is also obligated for that. That is the simple interpretation in the words of the Mishnah. But there is a hint here that the writer of the grace to Abraham about those two oaths that swear the soul about the commandments of doing that you will keep and the commandments of not doing that you will not transgress, which are transgress, which are four. They mention it, which is four. The meaning is about the four letters of the Holy Name of the Holy One, Blessed be He, which is composed of the letter י after the letter ה and the last letter is the letter ה, those four letters. This implies that there are no

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  1. 0:00[Music] Shavuot page, with the help of God, line 11 from the top, in the word
  2. 4:57such as the house, and placing it in a place that is defined as public property,
  3. 10:08of the four cases require a sacrifice. Just in case he forgot that he was unclean,
  4. 15:24comes to remove an object from his house, to uproot it from his house and take
  5. 20:42two and a fifth more than that. What does it mean? It is written in the
  6. 25:54twice there at the end of Parashat Shemini once it is written and disappeared from him
  7. 31:05students are going. So why does he have to say this to the whole class? They
  8. 36:30plural, then mayot, then plural. But here we will notice something different. There are two languages
  9. 41:43it That is to say, it is money, an amount of money that is truly worth
  10. 47:01son, we would have reasoned why he demands a plural and a plural and a plural

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