Why Moshe Felt Responsible for the Epidemic that Claimed 24,000

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

Open up your source sheets because this is going to be a text a text a textbased class today in baser hashem next class which is Thursday morning we're going to be learning a sika a talk a shir that was presented by the labav on shabas parish pinas to shin ladal that's summer of 1974 Before the Reb, the labreb brilliantly, brilliantly dissects and analyzes a rashi in paras. At the surface, we all read through the rashi. It's a nice rashi. Seems like a simple rashi. But when you begin to analyze on a granular level every word of rashi, the phrasiology of rashi, the choice of words of rashi, a new world emerges. It also develops into a discussion on intermarriage and our relationship to intermarriage. a paradoxical approach which addresses two opposite points about intermarriage especially in our generation as we will see in this talk of the labba which is published in the sikis volume 18 paras and being studied this week in project so let's begin but before I get into the sika in order to be able for you to video. of view source sheets are below the video download. You can also open volume 18 or you can go to project they have it as well their website let's remember context source number one olive base context context what happened at the end of paras we learned that after that whole story where bam is summoned to curse the Jewish people and he Essentially, he ends up blessing the Jewish people and his curses are transformed in some of the most poetic and eloquent blessings about the Jewish people. The nation of Israel begins surrendering to albino. The nation begins surrendering to promiscuity with the daughters with the women of Midian. And they ultimately follow their gods. They engage in the idolatry known as p

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1. 0:00Open up your source sheets because this is going to be a text a text a…
2. 6:36after they left Egypt, there was a count, a census. Now that Mosher Rabenu is nearing…
3. 12:25questions. I hope we have learned enough time that you think that way. The first big…
4. 19:53portions ago in the beginning of Bidbar fine we already went frombar to pin it's been…
5. 25:52six, the exact source, they bring the same metaphor, but not about a shepherd, about the…
6. 32:46connected to the plague. It's just connected to the fact that Mosha is soon going to…
7. 38:50More than 170,000. Wow. More than 170,000. If this is the case, this means that the…
8. 45:32I have left. They're precious to me. I care about them. I cared about those that…
9. 51:57Rashi uses over there the metaphor of the owner and the metaphor of a pandemic. And…
10. 58:06that he did not live up to his job as a shepherd. He lost the opportunity.…

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