The Evolution of Jewish Custom

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So good morning. So today uh this week's para let's start with is I think that is the most difficult para name to pronounce. It means when you light um light as lighting candles. And it begins with Hashem telling Moshe um to tell Aaron that when he lights the candles of the minora he should make sure that all the lamp the manora is a seven branch candle lyber in the temple. Um it had a central stem with two six branches three central stem with two six branches three on each side and the six branches on the sides. The wicks should face towards the center. So essentially the wick sits at the edge of the lamp and it should face towards the center of the lamp. Then Moshe instructs, Hashem instructs Moshe to um prepare the Levites for their service in the temple. They're going to do it by sprinkling them with the u purification waters that we're going to learn about in a couple weeks. Um that will purify them from ritual impurity as will purify them from ritual impurity as well as shaving their entire body as well as offering particular sacrifices. And then Aaron is to lift up each wheat Levite and wave them um in all directions as we do to sacrifices. We lift up the meat and we wave it um in four directions and up and down. Um and then the Torah, Hashem instructs Moshe that um the people should offer a Passover sacrifice. This is one year after they left Egypt. They're about to reach that

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1. 0:13So good morning. So today uh this week's para let's start with is I think that…
2. 6:21we're eating all day is mana. And so um Moshe is very disappointed with the people.…
3. 12:35of possible case scenarios um were not mentioned explicitly in the Torah, but arose over the…
4. 18:48that Hashem expects us to do. Um and therefore the Tal in multiple places says that…
5. 24:57is that in the diaspora outside the land of Israel we keep not one day of…
6. 31:09kipur or even famous prayers such as on yam kipur we begin yam kipur with the…
7. 37:27Jews. um keep this custom of not eating kidney oat on Passover. Certain Sphartic communities have…
8. 43:54done that way. Um, if it is not a widespread established Jewish custom, even then scholars…
9. 50:05custom. Why are customs so important in Judaism? Why do we consider customs so important? So…
10. 56:21classic example of this is one of the 613 commandments of the Torah is that it…

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