Parashas Ki Savo: A Moment of Inspiration with Rabbi Nosson Scherman

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

[Music] The Terra says, "Don't depart. Don't go in some different direction from the mitzvah and the things that I'm commanding you today." says not to the right and not to the left because you'll end up serving foreign gods and you'll be serving you you'll be worshiping idols strange moes is talking about all of the mitzvah the whole bris the whole covenant between andro why why suddenly is he does he get into keep all the mitzvah don't go this way don't go that way keep the mitzvah that's the extreme and rabisha explains this way there are two kinds of people who They're people who are really god-fearing Eden. There's a There's a there's a temptation and sometimes you you can't withstand it and you do a sometimes a very big a but you know you did wrong. You know you did wrong and it bothers you. Next time there might be another temptation. You might succumb once more, but again, you'll know that you're doing the wrong thing. There's another kind of person. He'll do something and he'll justify it.

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1. 0:00[Music] The Terra says, "Don't depart. Don't go in some different direction from the mitzvah and…
2. 0:34because you'll end up serving foreign gods and you'll be serving you you'll be worshiping idols…
3. 1:04keep all the mitzvah don't go this way don't go that way keep the mitzvah that's…
4. 1:34There's a there's a temptation and sometimes you you can't withstand it and you do a…
5. 2:06He'll do something and he'll justify it. And you want to live a certain way. So,…
6. 2:36The Torah is too strict. I want to be generous. I want to be kind. There…
7. 3:07of the Old Testament. No, we've we've gone further. We we we've improved on that. And…
8. 3:38Don't be generous where the Torah tells you to be strict. Don't be strict where the…
9. 4:08Torah got it wrong. I'm improving on the Torah Islam. You can go very very far.…
10. 4:40etc and so forth may not lead me to get down on my on my knees…

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