The Book of Nechemia: Chapter 5 - Nechemia's Altruism

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

didn't we just redeem these Jews from the gallium we just paid ransom for them so we're learning a very interesting thing that apparently the Jewish community in yusalayim had Ransom Jews had paid for the safe return of Jews from Legolas these Jews who had returned to Earth so many of them had been kidnapped have been captured and the wealthy Jews in Hashem had paid for their return according to their means and now they're coming back to shalayim and now they're coming back to shalayim and they don't have money so the wealthy people are lending their money but then taking ownership of them look at the absurdity of the situation you had just paid for their Ransom think about what you're doing now now you're taking them as servants as soon as your economic situation declines slightly you may sell them to gayam and then a few months later we're gonna force you to buy them back so think you're not accomplishing anything even for your own economic situation because you're just purchasing people that you yourself had just people that you yourself had just ransomed and eventually you're gonna have to buy them back so just instead of lending them the money this is an opportunity to give them a sudaka I have to understand why the same people who would take money out of their pocket to buy them a freedom from The Ransom I'm not going to turn around because just kind of stick with them uh this is you go with some people you go to some people you say then we have an institution you have a

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1. 0:34didn't we just redeem these Jews from the gallium we just paid ransom for them so…
2. 3:08break in your business that's that's the way things work ways to do so much pro…
3. 5:44we see that lending is not the way to go we have to give it to…
4. 8:52to a prophet Hashem will have the navi do a physical action for example um when…
5. 11:26share of food of tax food that uh he would not take his cut from the…
6. 14:33despite the fact I didn't take a cut I encouraged and I maintained and I kept…
7. 17:08Parham and birds I needed yamim because in one day I had to serve 10 days…
8. 19:51now it doesn't say it presumably he did not use whatever cut he was supposed to…
9. 22:54because you took credit for himself credit was taken away from him and he lost it…
10. 25:27worthy of reward you just want to give that reward to someone else so again he's…

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