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249 Bamidbar Your Pain Is My Lifeline 060616

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Rabbi Mashiach Kelaty

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start a new safer safer bar midbar and it's getting closer. As it happens, our uh aani here, Mrs. Caner, put the wrong in front of me. She put say for Dvarim and I started panicking a bit. I thought what's going on ava it's nearly no it was okay. She got the wrong book. I took a deep breath and all was okay. Right. So starts This is talking about how Hashem spoke to Moshe on the mountain of Si which we are due to to be at uh on Moses Shabbat because it's going to be shabor. So there's a famous idea in this first puk chapter 1 verse one. Why? Why was the Torah given in a desert? Because you have to make yourself like a midbar you have to make yourself like a midbar to be able to receive the Torah. What does it mean make yourself like a midbar? A midbar is sand. And when you see past the sand, there's more sand and more sand. And after that sand, there's a sand pit and then more sand after that as well. Basically, there is nothing to see in the desert apart from sand. What do you do on the sand? You walk on the sand. You tread on the sand. You do not make sand castles in the desert. Sand castles

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  1. 0:31start a new safer safer bar midbar and it's getting closer. As it happens, our uh
  2. 5:55boy, he was 16. It wasn't a little boy, but he took this young man under
  3. 11:44became none other than Rav Elza man the famous Rav Shak yeah who lived into uh
  4. 16:53something or you know even write it up you know a document like that is so
  5. 22:39that's unspeakable. So you have to be very very careful. But you see in those days,
  6. 27:51the tribe of God? Elas Ben Reel. So his name quoted here in Bidbar is Elas
  7. 33:41And it turns out that there was another boy from our community who also was going
  8. 38:56know if it's wrong, but I thought to myself like this. Why does it say if
  9. 45:07it's very difficult to be a teacher. Yeah. how much neph they have based on what
  10. 50:20be? In the end, the door opened, the man went out with his son and they

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