Parshat Behar/Bechukotai with Reb Meir Elkabas - Escaping the Exchange

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Shalom and welcome back to insights in the parsha of the week. Parshat Behar Bechukotai based on the teachings of Rebbe Nachman. We'd like to go into the very end section of Parshat Bechukotai. The laws of exchanges, temurah, we'd like to explain. The end of the parsha talks about consecrating a tithe of the animals, of the cows, the sheep, the goats to offer them as as as as a bechor, as a firstborn offer and sorry, as a tithe ma'aser of the animal that goes towards the Beit Hamikdash. You have to sacrifice it and the meat, whatever is eaten. Fine. What happens now? If if How it's chosen is that they allow one animal after the next to to exit a little tiny gate that only one at a time can go through. And the owner of the animals, he waits for number 10. Number 10, he puts a paint, a sikra on it and that's the indicator that this animal is ma'aser and has to be consecrated for the Beit Hamikdash. If now the animal, the cow, the sheep, the goat, they're healthy, no blemishes, no mumim, they're offered as a sacrifice. And if not, so then they use as what's called bedek habayit, they use for the sake of the temple, whatever is needed for the temple, if it's to carry wood, to do stuff, they have the permission in the temple to use it for other usages and in that way it stays with the

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1. 0:04Shalom and welcome back to insights in the parsha of the week. Parshat Behar Bechukotai based…
2. 1:04indicator that this animal is ma'aser and has to be consecrated for the Beit Hamikdash. If…
3. 2:35the animal, and also the second animal that he tried to exchange instead, that animal is…
4. 3:38world, or when he woke up in the morning, it's swapped and exchanged, it's taken away…
5. 5:08happens and you're now stuck in the chamber of exchanges, he says the initial way out,…
6. 6:41He says with no sin, this is the whole idea of nefilat apayim vidui, confession after…
7. 7:42Amidah Shmoneh Esrei prayer, the climax of that prayer where you reach the pinnacle is the…
8. 9:12there that this day in my life can extract it, okay? So, Hameir Yameireinu translates what…
9. 10:13exchanged, first thing they do is a confession. Hashem, I admit this and that. What's the…
10. 11:44confess. Right? Umodeh ve'ozev yoracham, a person who confesses and leaves this the transgression, which Rav…

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