A Short Thought on Parshat Matot Massei | by Rav Asher Weiss Shlit"a

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

[Music] so this week we read two passio ismates maasai it is the longest career of the entire year almost 250 psukim but we will start with the beginning of this career what does the word mean lawyer said the word of gulen what are they hagdish yes hege the word has kedusha the word is what sets us apart from all other creatures that share this planet with us and pashas is number one amongst all the commentators of homicide [Music] a spirit that talks it is what is unique about humankind only we use words so the word is the greatest gift that is human beings it is the only means to express what we feel to express what we think to teach to enlighten to educate to inspire to learn torah to dive into to say may abraham young it is the word which ekado who bestowed upon man to set them apart to make him unique and there is kedusha in every word last week has and the orgaim has a very surprising

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1. 0:00[Music] so this week we read two passio ismates maasai it is the longest career of…
2. 0:42what does the word mean lawyer said the word of gulen what are they hagdish yes…
3. 1:13and pashas is number one amongst all the commentators of homicide…
4. 1:50[Music] a spirit that talks it is what is unique about humankind only we use words…
5. 2:52interpretation on this posique that racheim says this possibilization is that a person's mouth is like…
6. 3:22for the boring asuri modi it is like there's an amazing you shall meet me who…
7. 3:52because if her mouth is cliches how could we possibly use it for divreicholin but rip…
8. 4:55if he would have an extra mouth that doesn't daven and doesn't learn toyota and doesn't…
9. 5:35as well we need to appreciate the word so this week's parachute talks about adorama voice…
10. 6:05but if you're promised you need to keep your promise and if you don't keep your…

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