Chelek 27, Kedoshim 02- Rabbi Ari Shishler

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Sometimes really big things start with really small steps. That's not always a positive thing. The beginning of all decline is just a little shift of how we think. And we're going to learn that from an area of you would never expect to teach such a profound lesson with regards to the mitzvah in our parish that you have to have honest weights and measures because of the Torah tells us that you may not do anything which is that you may not do anything which is dishonest with your measurements with your weights etc. The Torah then continues that this is because I am Hashem. He took you out of. So maybe the Rambam quotes the Torah. Why is there an association between weights and measures? Because any person who denies this of having accurate scales and measures that is equated to denying which is the that is equated to denying which is the beginning of this instruction. And anybody who accepts the requirement to have these honest weights and measures that person acknowledges the truth of which caused all of the other instructions. So the obvious question is what's the association with weights and measures specifically to the explains the link. If a person weighs something using weights that are inaccurate, that's another area which is in secret. Nobody knows the actual accuracy of your weight. Therefore, that person denies the fact that oversees and is aware of everything that goes on. Is the exact opposite because it had these incredible miracles that illustrate that Hashem not only oversees the world but introduces miracles to the world. But the main thing with regard to

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