The Incredible Journey of the Etrog, the Tree, and Creation - Parashat Bereishit

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

like to hit on something tonight that's really going to bring together where we're coming from and specifically where we're going to i want to touch upon something from the haga sukkot and show how this works straight into bereshit and the coming parashayot to open up the kickoff of this summer or this right now the winter's growth most of the marmot como tonight comes from the severe magid from rabbi daniel gladstein listen to this magnificent topic so when the torah told us to go out and get lulav the pasuk says it doesn't say it's rogue it doesn't say anything of a citrus nature it simply says a pre it's the fruit from a splendid tree that's it how do we know ethrog what got us the idea that that's what torah wanted so the sukhan tells us that there are certain very special things about the ethrog that's hinted to in the pasuk take a look at the image it says priya zhadar says this is a very special tree not typical to fruit trees typically the fruit tree the wood of the bark of the tree does not have the taste of the fruit he gives off you go to an apple tree good luck trying to bite into the bark of the tree but yet it gives off delicious apples there's one tree that's different from all other fruit tree the ethrog is the only fruit tree that the fruit and the tree both share the same taste wow that's a splendid tree pre-eds hadar it's a pre and it's it's that are special different than all the fruit trees so the first thing we learned tonight is

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1. 0:00like to hit on something tonight that's really going to bring together where we're coming from…
2. 3:04tosafo tells us over here that it when it says tapuak it doesn't mean an apple…
3. 6:38hashem said or was it shot that the or needed to listen i mean it decided…
4. 9:41think about that people are going to come along they won't even wait for the fruit…
5. 13:14and if i'm going to survive it's only because of him the same thing the tree…
6. 16:48i have angels all around me taking care of me head over foot i have these…
7. 19:52suddenly he took from the asura he made it and from the mutter he made it…
8. 23:29in the gun the edge was tough the tree was good hey there's only one fruit…
9. 26:36because the first man and his avon that brought death into the world that brought the…
10. 30:14and at the end we were waiting for him to come down and he didn't come…

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