The Kabbalah of Priestly Blessings פרשת נשא

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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] the twenty-sixth mitzvah of the Rambam is the Mitzvah to bless the Jewish people every day and that is the Kohanim the priests of Israel have a mitzvah every day to bless the Jewish people this barakah is found in the Book of Numbers chapter number 5 Numbers chapter number 5 starting with verses number 22 through verse number 27 and Alan goes on to say it is based on the verse clay Suvorov who has been a tile so shall you bless the Jewish people Armour Laham now this Braco that the Kohanim would bless the people this was done in the Holy Temple people this was done in the Holy Temple and every day the Kohanim would bless the Jewish people in the holy temple today that we have the Holy Temple so many communities they do this every day in the Land of Israel there are many synagogues that bless the Jews every day in other synagogues they only do this on Shabbos however every single day in every shoe if there's a minyan the Hasan the one who is leading minyan the Hasan the one who is leading the prayer in the Amidah when he finishes that middle makes the priestly blessings and everybody recites on name and it has if the the Kohanim a blessing the Jewish people furthermore this blessing even though was given to the Kohanim to bless the people of Israel every day every single Jew can use this broker as we see in the morning after we recite the blessings the 18 or 20 blessings of the morning and then we

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1. 0:02[Music] the twenty-sixth mitzvah of the Rambam is the Mitzvah to bless the Jewish people every…
2. 2:35the Priestly Blessing even though he is not a priest even though he's not a Korean…
3. 5:18concerned that perhaps the co hain would eat and drink and become sicker he found intoxicated…
4. 8:28outside of Israel even in fruit salad it's even in the Diaspora that the Kohanim should…
5. 11:03but it's abraca that I cannot grasp and that is why he goes on to say…
6. 14:13abraca something which comes down the power of abraca means that there's nothing holding it back…
7. 16:46Baraka the breakers Kohanim is a verse in the Torah as three verses of the Torah…
8. 19:19Kohanim is unique it has the quality of a broker of a blessing a quality of…
9. 22:29out with a new law that the the Tsar wanted to monopolize the industry of alcohol…
10. 25:07very powerful and very pleasant at the same time he still went on to the stage…

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