Kabbalah of Fire on 5x : P’ Vayakhel

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

Good morning, everybody. Thank you for joining. >> [clears throat] >> Moses went on Sinai three times. The third time he came down was Yom Kippur. The morning after Yom Kippur, Vayakhel Mosha es kol adas bnei Yisrael. The morning after Yom Kippur, he gathered all the Jewish people together. And he told them the following, "I want you to build a home for God. So, God can dwell amongst us on a permanent basis. However, before you begin to build this home, and before you begin to give all the donations for this home, you have to know one thing. Sheshes yamim they also melacha. For six days, you are allowed to work. Uveyom hashvii, on the seventh day, yelechem kodesh Shabbat shabbason laHashem. On the seventh day, it's Shabbat, and therefore, kol ha'oseh va'amelocha yumas. Anyone who does work on this day will be put to death. In other words, you may think the building of the temple is so important, it overrides everything, you should know it's not so. The first thing you have to do is keep Shabbat. And you can work from Sunday through Friday and build the holy temple, build the Mishkan, but on Shabbat, you're not allowed to work. Then, the Torah continues, "Lo sevaru eish bechol moshavoseichem beyom haShabbat." Don't make any fire on the Shabbat. Now, the question comes to mind. All the commentaries ask this question. Seemingly, there are 39 prohibitions on the Shabbat. You may not plow, you may not sow, you may not cook. You may not build, you can't write, you

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1. 0:00Good morning, everybody. Thank you for joining. >> [clears throat] >> Moses went on Sinai three…
2. 2:30is because the love is to tell us that even though the other 38 prohibitions if…
3. 5:04brought sacrifices on Shabbos. So, once the Temple was built, on Shabbos, they did these things.…
4. 7:39pour any hot molten lead down a person's throat on shabbos. Don't kill anybody on Shabbos.…
5. 10:13you could make fire. When it comes to the holiday like Passover and Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah,…
6. 12:46and the earth. Ha'aretz represents the land, the garden, the Garden of Eden where we have…
7. 15:19pertaining the prohibition of making fire, the Rambam tells us in the laws of Shabbos to…
8. 17:52the offer. However, this passion is only good and only healthy if it requires ashes. In…
9. 20:27He runs out. He says, "Rebbe, please forgive me. My wife, she's under a lot of…
10. 22:59the child starts to open his eyes. He starts to sit up, he's starting to get…

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