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So good morning. So um first let's start with the para. This week we have a double para. It is called mat mas. The first para is mat which means the tribes when Moshe speaks the leaders of the tribes. The second one is called mas which means travels which begins at least with the travels of Israel. it. These are the last two paras of the book of bameidbar of the book of numbers which means that at the end of this chabas we will be fourfifths of the way through the Torah and we will have only one book left to go the book of one book left to go the book of Deuteronomy we are getting very very close to the end of the Jewish year and very close to simra when we celebrate the end of the Torah. So just briefly the para of mot speaks uh firstly about the laws of vows. When a person makes a vow they must keep their word. We did a class previously about vows and we spoke about it. Um if you say you're going to do something, you have to do it. And that's why Jews are very careful to always add the words bin without a vow. If you make a commitment, you got to keep your word. And uh then the Torah

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