Parshat Bechukotai with Reb Chaim Kramer

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Shalom Aleichem. Welcome to the Breslov Parsha series. This week is Parshas Bechukosai, the last, final Parsha in Vayikra. Very interesting Parsha - they all are - but this one is very interesting. It starts off, im bechukosai teileichu, v’es mishpotai tishmoru va'asisem osam. If you go with my chukim, my laws, and you watch my rules, and you do them, well then v'nasati gishmeichem b'itam. I will give the rain in its time. So first let's look at Rashi. Rashi starts off, im bechukosai teileichu, if you go with my laws, that refers to Torah study. Shetihyu ameilim batorah, that you should work hard in Torah. Now the Or HaChayim has many, many commentaries on this. Im bechukosai teileichu, that you should work hard in Torah study - shetihyu ameilim batorah, that you should work in Torah. He says, you can't say it means only the mitzvos, because the next words say, v’es mishpotai tishmoru va'asisem osam. You will guard my rules, and you will do them. So that's doing the mitzvos. So what could bechukosai telechu mean, except working in Torah, toiling in Torah. All right, first of all, what does it mean to toil in Torah? Could everybody sit in beis medrash and learn? It doesn't work that way. Not from the beginning of time, when we received the Torah, have the Jews been able to just sit and learn, and do nothing else. They all worked! They entered the land of Israel, they had to farm it - it was an agrarian society, they had to do business. Zevulun went out sailing to trade with other nations. So there's a lot of different things. What is ameilim batorah? It means that everything that I do, anything that I

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1. 0:03Shalom Aleichem. Welcome to the Breslov Parsha series. This week is Parshas Bechukosai, the last, final…
2. 1:11that refers to Torah study. Shetihyu ameilim batorah, that you should work hard in Torah. Now…
3. 2:14when we received the Torah, have the Jews been able to just sit and learn, and…
4. 3:23regular mundane items. Yes - if we toil for the sake of Torah, then we are…
5. 4:30ourselves. But if the rains come in time, which means that if our bounty descends when…
6. 6:14seven punishments in one group, seven in the next, each one gets worse than the other.…
7. 7:18made with their forefathers, with the patriarchs - with Avraham, with Yitzchak, with Yaakov - and…
8. 8:25itself - it’s a Gemara in Kesubos - the land itself is loyal to the Jews,…
9. 9:34the land of Israel is going and growing, and it's time for all of us to…
10. 10:46everything is here! It's time for all of us to come back. May HaShem bless us,…

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