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From Vows to Korban: Words That Change Reality | The Shiur

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Rabbi Peretz Segal

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So, one of the challenges of living in is the ease of gaining information, solving problems, and uh discovering things. Pretty much with the advent of AI, if I have a problem, I don't dwell on the problem. I prompt AI to give me a solution. >> Please defer interpretation. I will extract the meaning, organize the extract the meaning, organize the arguments, and deliver a finalized understanding. No further thought required. >> In doing so, there's a profound statement from Chofetz Chaim, written over a thousand years ago, which is shows that leap deepest the level of insight. He said, "The advancement of society, of the world, is the destruction of the mind." So, so the more we progress with So, so the more we progress with technology, the less of us is left behind. The more we outsource our thinking, our reasoning, our research, the more we lose the ability to reason, memory, the power to contemplate and introspect. And even though, of course, AI is exceptionally powerful and has incredible benefits, but we also have to be conscious of the underbelly, the dark side of technology. And in order to do side of technology. And in order to do so, we have to do some action of counteraction, which is being able to plumb the depths of the beauty of Torah. And in doing so, we start to understand how disparate, unrelated concepts can be compared and discovered a dimension that was hitherto unforeseen through careful analysis. That's exactly what our Gemara is going into.

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  2. 3:41notion that just because a word is repeated therefore it's significant to uncover halachic gems. Says
  3. 7:47In fact, thank you. Good night. Even Ben. And Ben Ben Ben. And then um in
  4. 11:57it. We say, "The leaders, they can do it as individuals. The majority can do it
  5. 16:10shooting them across to shoot their hoods the kumara answers in a powerful shift they shall
  6. 20:16beautiful. There's nothing like a good chassidish vort that doesn't exist. Beautiful. >> Amalek >> I
  7. 23:55of the entire parsha, it says "Vayedaber Moshe el bnei Yisrael." And Moshe spoke about all
  8. 28:02get up shot." So, I imagine before he went to Laredo, cuz he obviously wasn't in
  9. 32:07Um this is how you have to read the braisa. Ha katan. This is how it
  10. 36:11collective, three is sufficient. That draws to a close this topic. There's a new topic which

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