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Bo: Moons Shine in the Night | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Okay, good morning everyone and thank you for joining us on this beautiful Tuesday morning as we are starting together paras of course is a jam-packed paras and it's very famous because it has in it the month the the mitzvah the commandment of the new month the says hashem speaks to in Egypt and he says to them this month is for you the head of this month is for you the head of months. So he's commanding him two things. Number one about the month that you're in, the month of Nissan, which was April. That month should be the first month of the year. So as an example, we just got to January and we said, you know, new year, new year, new year. But really for Jews, it's not a new year. For us, the new year is Nissan. That's the first month. Also, tish is the new year. That's when the world was created. different new years depending on what different new years depending on what you're counting from and towards. But the Torah is saying that the the Jewish people we should always count back to Nissan. But it's also commanding us to the idea of haz and God was pointing and saying to Moshe that you should start counting from now on the the month not according to the sun but according to the moon. And this is something that we is is um is actually something that we have in our history and our tradition. Something

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  1. 0:00Okay, good morning everyone and thank you for joining us on this beautiful Tuesday morning as
  2. 2:33count. This is our para. speaks about but remember the first of the entire Torah says
  3. 5:36when everything is smooth, easygoing. There's periods in life where we experience day. And then there's
  4. 8:10What about the players? Did they also leave in the middle of the game? The kid
  5. 11:14mission our dedication to Hashem is constant this is number one idea from the shalom it
  6. 13:47down and he says, "Uh, he says to the kid, so you know, you want to
  7. 17:00we say at the what do we say in the that the mitzvah of this for
  8. 19:38Furthermore, another idea touching on this is that the moon waxes and wes. Moon goes up,
  9. 22:48we're saying this blessing on the moon, which is a time of the month that we're
  10. 25:25"You are my firstborn. You are my firstborn and I'm taking you out of here." You

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