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Why Do We Love Looking in the Mirror? Because It Teaches Us the Secret of Life

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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[Music] good evening and welcome it seems like a short and very innocent pasa curse in parshas vehicle and yet it bring it brought forth very fascinating and intriguing ideas and discussions and I'm referring to the story of the mirrors bring up source number one please and the portion of I Akal the Torah the portion of I Akal the Torah discusses how bit Sal and his team of craftsmen constructed all of the pieces of furniture and vessels of the Michigan of the tabernacle source number one in your PDF right below the video vias ASA Kieran officious vase Canaan officious but sallow made the kheer the washing basin out of copper as well as its pedestal also out of copper the Maris pedestal also out of copper the Maris had service assured Tsavo pacify Umayyad with the mirrors of the women who congregated at the door to the sanctuary to the tent of meeting what were these mirrors is the question we know that one of the pieces of furniture in the tabernacle and later in the temple was the kheer the kheer was a large cattle the kheer the kheer was a large cattle which was filled with water and each morning before any cow ate any priest would enter into the sanctuary to do the service he was obligated to wash his hands and his feet from the kheer from the washing basin it had faucets the Kohen would open up the forces and the water would flow and cleanse his hands and his feet and only then was he permitted entrance into the

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