Part 32: Mi Lashem Elai, If You are For Hashem Join Me

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Parsha Perspectives - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

okay as always we dedicate our learning in this class we're on page been going through these pram that deal with amuna the definition and the inspiration to lead our lives with a greater sense of the presence of the almighty of his guiding hand in our lives so we're in the bottom paragraph of the right hand on page says further in the foundation of Amun is to know is to believe that God chose us from among all the nations that he loves us and that he wants us he exalted us above all the other languages just as God told us when we were still in Egypt when we were immersed in the 49 levels of impurity God called us his firstborn now it's interesting God did not call us his only children God has many children all of humanity are God's children we don't see ourselves as Superior to other nations of the world we are not intrinsically or inherently superior to the Gentiles we simply are a Bor we're God's firstborn what does it mean to be a firstborn in the Jewish tradition the firstborn gets a double portion they not PN they get a double portion within the inheritance within the estate a firstborn has greater responsibility firstborn has greater responsibility greater obligation the firstborn is assumed to take over the leadership of their siblings if the parent were to experience their demise so the firstborn is not inherently greater than the other children nor do we believe the firstborn is more loved than the other children the firstborn is uh your first driver is your first babysitter is your first you know to a certain degree they feel it for themselves and you feel it whether you articulated or not that they're a third parent and then you get

Jump to a moment

1. 0:03okay as always we dedicate our learning in this class we're on page been going through…
2. 3:12saturated with decadence and moral depravity and lenti justness and it was an unethical World MIT…
3. 6:20the dress the mentality there was a certain a yisha flavor it was a Jewish Home…
4. 9:23walking on the way into the house you kiss that mza and you remember that marriage…
5. 12:27notion that we were yet right when we were in Egypt when we were saturated in…
6. 16:12came and aimed a gun at you while I was the greatest disappointed I could ever…
7. 19:20we're not meeting our expectations nevertheless gracious so there's two parts of our there's a part…
8. 22:22like Abraham Lincoln I freed the slaves I took you out of Egypt so the kar…
9. 25:34I am the Lord who created the world but I'm also you God we say this…
10. 28:38know that he was El a el andov that are of us our forefathers each had…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library where each video was reviewed against one written standard before it could appear. No ads, no comments, no autoplay into anything unapproved.