The High Holy Days: Eternal Values - Rabbi Yisroel Reisman

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

[Music] there are certain Mitzvah that are very specific to a Mel Israel to a king among the Jewish people and one of the most famous is the obligation of the king to have a safe has to be with him from to be able to read all his life this seems to mean inconsistency in the it's a feminine expression she will be with him and then the he will read in it Bo is the masculine expression it's an inconsistency which is very unusual in the Ty the answer though lies in aashi later Ty the answer though lies in aashi later in par and Rashi gives us a tremendous insight into the appreciation of a saer Ty Rashi says sometimes it says in feminine and sometimes it says in masculine and there's a difference saer to means a t scroll saer the physical tus girl saer is a word in Hebrew which has has a is a word in Hebrew which has has a masculine construction meaning it's saer the word t on the other hand is of a feminine origin and feminine expressions are used now the point here is neither the masculine nor the feminine but the point is that sometimes you look at a SE you say means the scroll the physical Torah sometimes you Torah sometimes you say is not a reference to the physical but to the concept that the Torah represents and both are true we give respect to a saer Torah scroll what I would call Theus of t or the physical T and then there's the essence of the tah the spiritual the pemus of tah and the Torah deliberately has a contrast when it refers to the

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1. 0:00[Music] there are certain Mitzvah that are very specific to a Mel Israel to a king…
2. 3:41Torah scholar because they're standing up for the parchment and the ink of a sa rather…
3. 7:20Israel it's wonderful to go to Israel it's a Jewish Metropolis it's a wonderful place but…
4. 11:01and the ink Ze the feminine expression refers to T the essence of T not the…
5. 14:41differently to look at the streets of differently to look at the differently to see differently…
6. 18:19the Majesty anybody who remembers the coronation of King Car King King Charles III will certainly…
7. 21:57their cruelty I don't think I don't think anybody could argue that they are MIM their…
8. 25:32that Kermit the Frog would do a better job it doesn't matter these leaders quote unquote…
9. 29:09the day of the coronation of the king our hearts have to be completely shim completely…
10. 32:44sent you a present the Headmaster got up he opened the side door to the office…

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