Valentine Day In Jewish Perspective

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

Shalom one of the questions that are very relevant to many people on February 14 is the question of celebrating Valentine's Day can you share the day of Love Can you give gifts to those that you care about and love and in the first glance it seems like why not what's wrong with that there's nothing religious about it that is taken from the Gentiles and therefore it doesn't contradict the Jewish religion at all giving a gift to somebody you love is always a positive thing reinforcing your relationship with others is always something that should be celebrated it seems like it's a wonderful thing but let's let's just see some very concerning points one of them is what is Valentine really in the very beginning is anybody called Valentine Val in's yes Valentine was a saint a early Roman Christian Saint from the third century and he's was a person that really represented the religion of love and therefore he performed marriages between people so it seems like a very positive and beautiful thing that you have such a saint that is associated with love and a love day and why not do the same today by us which is something that should be uh copied and reinforced the truth is that as in our religion we can't follow other religions uh Saints or priests or religious uh figures that's definitely something that falls under the of if they do that as a rule something that becomes religious something that is be becomes on regular basis on every single day of a year it has a date on the calendar we're not allowed to follow that Feinstein has a in Al and he writes over there about a different holiday and that is the holiday of uh Thanksgiving and he writes over

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1. 0:01Shalom one of the questions that are very relevant to many people on February 14 is…
2. 1:01Valentine was a saint a early Roman Christian Saint from the third century and he's was…
3. 2:01if they do that as a rule something that becomes religious something that is be becomes…
4. 3:07for every year going forward as well which means there a Prohibition over year of do…
5. 4:08Ben we have to extend our love to everybody to and to fellow men and therefore…
6. 5:45others and so on and so forth and this really takes us a little bit more…
7. 6:46to chew them choose again the food that he that he swallowed now the kazir the…
8. 7:50exactly on that point you'll see something that's extremely troubling and that is one of the…
9. 8:50poisoning the wells and they saw the Jews are being killed in much less numbers the…
10. 9:52always the scapegoat and you have to blame somebody for something that goes on and that…

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