Parshas Shelach: The Incredible Memory of Maran Ovadia Yosef - 3 Insights

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

pasuk in Chumash, it's a pasuk in this week's parsha. It says v'lo sasuru acharei l'vavchem v'acharei eineichem. Don't stray after your heart or after your eyes. Guard your heart from apikorsus, guard your eyes. If one is careful to guard their eyes, says Rav Ovadia, the Torah promises l'maan tizkeru, so that you should remember. Says Rav Ovadia, in the zechus that I was shomer einai, I was zocheh to such a powerful memory. Well, there was more to it than just shmiras einayim. In fact, one particular avreich came to Rav Ovadia, and this is brought in the sefer Mesilas Yesharim, page kuf mem ches. And he told he asked Rav Ovadia for a segulah for memory. He said whatever he learns, he forgets. And Rav Ovadia asked the the bachur, the avreich, "Nu, so how many times do you chazer?" So he says, "I try to chazer twice." Rav Ovadia says, "You know what?

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1. 0:31pasuk in Chumash, it's a pasuk in this week's parsha. It says v'lo sasuru acharei l'vavchem…
2. 1:01Well, there was more to it than just shmiras einayim. In fact, one particular avreich came…
3. 1:32Maybe you should try chazering 40 times." The Gemara tells us that Reish Lakish chazered everything…
4. 2:03Tosafists are particularly long and a Tosafist that stretches out over most of the amud. And…
5. 2:33200 times." So, certainly guarding one's eyes is a schoola for memory. It doesn't hurt to…
6. 3:04on the word zicharon as a schoola for zicharon. So, it's probably worthwhile to be tapping…

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