Parsha Perspectives for Today (Vayikra, 5782) - From Chance to Meaning

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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.

good morning invoker tov welcome back to partial perspectives for today excited to jump into the third book of the torah together safer vayikra and parishes it's great to see so many people so many more people joining us online as well everyone online should be here back in person someone suggested we charge for watching online it'll motivate people to come in person but in fact we are charging to watch online because we're still running our global campaign so if you are not a member of the boca raton synagogue and you are here right god calling moshe it replicates what appears in the torah itself the balcory the one getting the alias see it but the aleph of the word vayikra is a miniature aleph it's what we call an aleph zira it's a small mini aleph musa of moshe moshe was humble he was modest for the torah to declare that god called him that would seem arrogant moshe would look like he was gloating he was showing off look at me you know who i am god calls to me directly moshe preferred without the aleph without the aleph the same letters spells which means mikra chance happenstance randomly god randomly tripped on me could have called anyone he screamed out i was the one who answered kardashian number it's a villain and where do we see that word used with bill maharasha near la hashem with bilaam the torah specifically depicts as if god stumbled across bilum it was chance it was happenstance it wasn't by design and moshe says let me look like billam i don't have to stand out i don't have to be special i don't have to look like god called me i want it without the aleph let it just say mikra who god said nice try that's your job to see mumble

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1. 0:01good morning invoker tov welcome back to partial perspectives for today excited to jump into the…
2. 7:16chance and happenstance was the most humble person ever of all time the most humble of…
3. 13:22let me build you up but your greatness brings a responsibility your greatness doesn't entitle you…
4. 18:58but it made sense there was a framework there was a reason there was the ability…
5. 25:23i don't know that we do this i'm sure in certain hamish schools they still do…
6. 31:35hashem is the greatest teacher ever and with that with hashem being the greatest teacher of…
7. 37:20moshe you're everything you're the most trustworthy reliable dependable so moshe who's the ben bias at…
8. 43:24i'm to get past the first possum too i promise all right moshe was called many…
9. 49:03and obligation and mission and giving and it happens to be all studies will show you…
10. 55:43just offers a little chicken wing when it burns it also produces a reaction says teaches…

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