Parshat Vayeira: The Role of the Jewish Leader - Cleaving to a Tzaddik-פרשה וירא

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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.

[Music] defining the role of a leader the r tells us in Mitzvah number six that there's a Mitzvah it's a Mitzvah to mingle and to cleave and to bond with Scholars and sadik what is the proof from the Torah says the r because it says for God is a consuming fire is it possible for one to cleave to God it's impossible because then one will be burned and therefore the way we do this is by cleaving to sikim and by cleaving to sikim we fulfill the Mitzvah of cleaving to God the comments on this Mitzvah and he says that this Mitzvah to cleave toik is true for both male and female toik is true for both male and female both men and women have this obligation and the purpose says the is in order that so that one will come to truly know God and he goes on to say that one who neglects this commandment and does not truly cleave to it's a very big sin says the because they are the because they are the they sustain the Torah and this is a this is a very strong Foundation to save souls in other words that the objective of a sadik is to save the souls of the generation and therefore by cleaving to thead that person will be saved and the goes on to conclude that one who mingles amongst the Torah Scholars will not come to sin quickly this is the basic interpretation of why one should cleave with sadim holy people and this is expounded upon in the Tanya of the Al Al writes in Tanya chapter 2 and and it's expounded upon in the lessons of Tanya that through this we understand

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