BROKEN PROMISES That Made Painful History MATOT | STUMP THE RABBI (276)

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

[singing] Is [singing] [music and singing] >> [singing] >> musical. [singing] [music] [singing] >> [singing and music] >> I meet [music] [singing] [music] [singing] Oh, I met [singing] [music] [singing] If you pay close attention, you'll actually see that the greatest pains in history and in even in people's lives, including your own, are a result of broken promises. Mat first tells us about the importance of keeping your word before it actually shows us the outcome of the broken words and how they will change history forever. M continues on that narrative before it starts going into other aspects of the Torah which we will try our best to cover. After that you guys will then ask some questions and will give us the answers. So in the beginning of parat in the book of numbers in chapter 30 we learn about the mitzvot of keeping the your word and not making a vow which is a ne if you're not planning on keeping and not making avo which is an oath. At least that's the closest these translations get to what the uh actual source says. Don't make an oath. Don't make a vow. Don't make an oath. Don't make a vow. What is an oath? What is a vow? A vow is when a person decides that they're going to take something upon themselves where they're going to forbid themselves something that the Torah allows. So of course you cannot make a to put on or to keep Shabbat because you've already made that N. We've already made

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