The meaning of Stars according to Kabbalah ? (Parsha Devarim)

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

thirty-seven days before moses passes away he begins to write the book of devarim deuteronomy where he recounts the history of the jewish people and he tells them if you have any questions ask it now or forever hold your peace and he begins chapter one to speak about the travels in the desert and then he goes on to say in chapter number one verse number nine is he says i said to you at that time i cannot carry you alone why not verse number 10 hashem ali kechem because god your lord has multiplied you and behold today you are like the stars of the heavens which have no limits level that are truly in abundance to understand this on five levels how this applies to the nine days because the book of the varim the passage of the is always read in the three weeks and in the nine days before tisha b'av the destruction of the holy temple so what is the message in this parasha to all of us first and foremost on the level of rashi asks the following question the torah here says and behold today you are like the stars of the skies the stars of the heavens today we know that there are billions of billions trillions of stars and in truth according to many mathematicians and astronomers and halachic codifiers there are unlimited amount of stars so rashi asked the question how can you say that today you are like the stars of the sky when in truth there are only six hundred thousand men

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