Parsha Shiur: Vaeira

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year's parach. So, you're welcome to go and uh find that on Torah anytime or or wherever. So, but let me just remind you what the three mahalim are. The first is Rashi. Again, the question is how could harden par's heart? Surely that takes away his bira which is an axiom of our faith one of the fundamentals. So Rashi says ultimately that hardening parro's heart in the last five of the makas was a punishment for the first five when it was parro's own obstinacy that led him to refuse to let klis go. So the second five was a punishment for the first five. That's how Rashi learns. The Rambam famously says that free will is a gift. Having the opportunity to make the right choices in life is a gift and you either use it or you lose it. If a person abuses that gift then is taken away from you. The example that I I gave last year was uh the sort of dramatic martial. Imagine a young man Rahman Islam shoots his own parents. The police come along. he's uh put behind bars and then the day comes for his trial where they're going to decide what's what sentence to give him. And as he's fooled in front of the judge, the judge looks down on him and says, "Do you have anything to say in defense? Are there any mitigating factors?" And the kid looks up at the judge and says, "Yes, please have mercy on me because I'm an orphan." Well, that's ridiculous. He made himself into an an orphan. He himself

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1. 1:07year's parach. So, you're welcome to go and uh find that on Torah anytime or or…
2. 3:52mahal one of the three approaches that I just mentioned. So for example the says in…
3. 6:33Therefore says to you go tell he he has distanced himself so badly by his very…
4. 9:22first one I'm going to deal with is the second of the seven makers that appear…
5. 12:06they're not obligated they're not commanded to keep Torah and mitzvah and yet they were most…
6. 14:47don't accept your interpretation there was once it croked and encouraged others to come all natural…
7. 17:22that just like the frogs were created solely to beesh toem. Well, so too human beings…
8. 20:11and the houses of the Egyptians will be filled with wild animals and the land upon…
9. 22:53i.e. the land which connects this to the ground underneath it through this chain that will…
10. 25:43and that's beautiful that I'm therefore I'm distinguishing between that that's considered the residential area and…

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