What Happened at Sinai #6 - How the Ten Commandments Contain All 613

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

okay last week we discussed what did it look like at sinai the awesome circumstances of the singing revelation the thunder the lightning the fire the smoke all of the excitement and we tried to get at least some sense of what all that was about each each particular effect that was going on what was the message or what was it trying to to bring out um to bring out um and all this was sort of the introduction or or accompaniment to the revelation of god speaking to the jewish people at mount sinai and what was it that god shared with us at that amazing event it was the ten commandments in one form or another and again i used the word ten commandments loosely the torah describes them as aseras the ten divarim which is really like the ten divarim which is really like statements um and if you examine them we've mentioned there's really more like 13 commandments in there but but the torah is telling us to divide it up into 10 so on some level so we'll just call it the ten commandments and god reveals that that's that is what ultimately you know is is transmitted seemingly at sinai is the ten commandments and we discuss did god speak all of them directly to did god speak all of them directly to the jewish people or perhaps only the first two but even if it was only the first two they still would have heard all ten at sangha just perhaps indirectly from god in any event that was that was what what went down at sinai is the ten commandments and that's where we're going to start discussing more in depth tonight there's a tremendous amount of of material to that could be touched on um probably you know a lifetime's worth

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1. 0:02okay last week we discussed what did it look like at sinai the awesome circumstances of…
2. 6:11of the daily prayers that's basically what this uh what this this little paragraph in the…
3. 12:27it's more to give the people the opportunity to hear me speak to you to understand…
4. 18:32from the german by the way reverse lived in germany he wrote his commentary in in…
5. 24:40what's the what's the big novelty about these commandments meaning if if i was gonna make…
6. 30:52know exactly when the different midrashim were were all compiled but it certainly precedes ravsadya and…
7. 37:02the mitzvos so i spent quite a bit of time trying to to find you know…
8. 43:10both both actions and mind character traits and and beliefs and so the ultimate end game…
9. 49:21eight leads to number seven leads to number six it's a gateway it's a gateway coveting…
10. 55:30many different commandments that they have to do with protecting others or not damaging others protecting…

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