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

From the bottom of my heart thank each and every one of the nearly 800 families who contributed to our global campaign to enable us to continue to learn and teach. I told you two weeks it was two weeks and not a day more. You made that happen from the bottom of my heart. Really with the greatest sincerity and gratitude I thank you for your generosity. Thank you for making it happen. I have to tell you I'm incredibly proud. 800 nearly 800 families from 167 different cities around the world participated which means that our learning is global indeed. It's worldwide. There's I I can't describe how gratifying and satisfying that is. It means the world to me. I'm sorry that I muttered you. I'm not sorry I muttered you because we needed to make it happen. I thank you for responding. Page 444. And you saved me from having to weave it into this parsha even though it's the perfect setup. Hashem spoke to Moshe and he said, "Speak to the Jewish people and let them take from me a portion. From every person whose heart motivates him you should take a portion." Yikchu li truma. We know famously it should say viyitnu li truma. Give. Why does it say viyikchu? And we all know these divrei Torah. Because every time we give we really get. Every time we think we're giving we get the experience of dedicating and allocating our resources and the gifts we have towards good and indeed we're getting more than we're giving. And

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