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

[Music] Page 10 Do you know the word "but" in Hebrew? The word " but" is used for a lot of things that are less desirable? As a person always said to me, when I hear compliments about my son in yeshiva or my son in Talmud Torah, it starts with how wonderful he is. It starts with how good a student he is and how many talents he has. And then I pause for a moment for the word "but." As soon as they say the word "but," I know things will go in a direction that is a little less pleasant than where they less pleasant than where they started. The same thing happens when you ask your friend to do you a favor, to take you from place to place. Everything like that. Listen to the whole monologue. How he begins. How much he would like to help you and how happy he would be. And he is a man of immense kindness. But today, it's not working out for him for countless reasons. The word "vain" is a word. No, who knows what you are looking for. No, who knows what you are serious. But today, we actually seem to be using the word "but" again. Today, we seem to see that in the sacred tongue and in the Gemara, the word "but" is used for truth. Its explanation is truth. And the origin of this is from "vain." Your wife Sarah gives birth to you a son,

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1. 0:02[Music] Page 10 Do you know the word "but" in Hebrew? The word " but" is…
2. 1:04of this is from "vain." Your wife Sarah gives birth to you a son, but truth.…
3. 2:39whether I can eruv for the first day to the east and the second day to…
4. 3:48even one amma, as we explained, for as soon as he places at the end of…
5. 5:30taken and brought to him. He can take the mixture home with him, because on a…
6. 6:31if he puts down the eruv, it is essentially the same idea. If he puts down…
7. 8:06n't you admit to us that one day is a regular Sabbath? Let's say a regular…
8. 9:09not help him, even according to their system, and he must go and eat again on…
9. 10:43not tell them, but right. Once he did not make rab for a good day, he…
10. 11:44one holiness. Very simply, because of the hannah, as we will see. God willing, tomorrow. I…

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