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Can You Regrow a Lost Soul? P’ Naso

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Rabbi Aaron L Raskin

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the Rambamades in the book of mitzvos where he enumerates the 613 mitzvah of the Torah he says that there's a mitzvah which means to articulate and confess the sins that you have perpetrated as it says in the Torah in the portion of chapter Five, and you shall confess and articulate the sins that you have done. Now, it's interesting to note there are 613 commandments in the Torah. On the holiday of God came down onto the mountain and he spoke the ten commandments. All of us, every single Jew, man, woman, and child, saw God speaking those ten commandments. And we heard from God those ten commandments. This was on the sixth day of the month of Shiva. On the following day, on the seventh day of the month of Shiva, Moses goes up to the mountain. He goes up to God. For the next 40 days and 40 nights, he has taught the entire Torah, all 613 commandments of the Torah. He comes down 40 days later with the tablets in his hand and the knowledge of all the 613 commandments that he teaches us over the next 40 years in the desert. Over the next 40 years, when the Jewish people were roaming the desert, Moses enumerated and taught in tremendous detail to all of us the entire Torah, all 613 commandments of the Torah. What they are, what are the 613? There's disputes amongst the sages, but we all know and we all agree that there are 613 commandments. And this is taught to a child. When the child is able to speak,

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  1. 0:00the Rambamades in the book of mitzvos where he enumerates the 613 mitzvah of the Torah
  2. 2:43died. God resurrected us. We heard the second commandment again. We died. God resurrected us. And
  3. 5:53says which means and you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart and you shall no
  4. 9:05Now the ma goes on to say that these two aspects are really one aspect and
  5. 12:23move your lips and articulate it. So again the mid says that chuva is a mitzvah.
  6. 15:37You need to feel that rip. When you do a sin and now you want to
  7. 18:26alive, our rebrea once went into him and he said the following. He said, "People are
  8. 21:37comes from your own free will, your own valition voluntarily, is that truly a sincere mitzvah,
  9. 24:56connect with God to return. When I find myself in that zone that I'm doing chuva,
  10. 28:10life of Rabbeno who for 80 years lived a life of nothingness and now he was

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