Parshat VaEtchanan with Reb Meir Elkabas - The Unity of Shamor and Zachor

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Shalom everybody. Welcome back to Insights in the parsha of the week, parshat Va'etchanan, right after Tisha B'Av and also it's Shabbat Nachamu. Baruch Hashem, the electricity is in the air as we get ready, at least in Breslov circles, we get ready ready big time from now until Rosh Hashanah. Because we just have 7 weeks now until Rosh Hashanah, which is very exciting and very electrifying for us B'ezrat Hashem. In any event, this parsha many things of course, um in the review of Moshe Rabbeinu of um in the review of Moshe Rabbeinu of the 10 Commandments. If you recall in parshat Yitro, we had the actual initial mentioning of the 10 Commandments when the Jews reached Har Sinai, etc. And here before Moshe Rabbeinu's passing, he goes over them once again. And so, if that's the case, so you would think that the wording would be identical. If it's a review, it should be identical. But like the sages teach, that there are some nuances, some changes, and those changes are just made changes, and those changes are just made to add something new to them. So, one of the thing that things that Rashi points out is on Shabbat. If you take a look in parshat Yitro on Shabbat, it says there is zachor et yom ha Shabbat. Okay? You should remember the day of Shabbat to sanctify it, to remember it. How do you remember it? It's a positive act to remember it with speech, that's the idea of the kiddush, but also zachor means the positivity in what you do do on Shabbat, like sanctifying Shabbat with the kiddush and

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1. 0:00Shalom everybody. Welcome back to Insights in the parsha of the week, parshat Va'etchanan, right after…
2. 1:32sanctifying Shabbat with the kiddush and havdalah, okay, and the three meals, etc. And in this…
3. 3:35done normally. So, they heard from the same source, shamor v'zachor, number one, okay? Uveteivah echad.…
4. 5:39Zachor and shamor are basically two opposites. Before we go into this, we have to explain…
5. 7:11decide. You say Shabbat, which means to stop, to refrain, but at the same time we're…
6. 9:13enough time to sleep in the grave." There's two two two tradition two traditions. Some say…
7. 11:20course, two happening together. So, for Hashem, it's important that they come out together, both in…
8. 12:50can't even read, he can't even he takes time to pay at the cash register, you…
9. 14:54ears is Binah and the mouth is Da'at. So Rashi points out for Hashem it was…
10. 16:58this specialty, this faculty of knowing how to have a Shamor and Zachor working together in…

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