Parshat Mishpatim: We will Do and We will Hear - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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[Music] now all of us know the famous teaching of Cazale that God actually offered the Torah to all the nations of the world and they turned it down because they asked us Shem what's in it and then when the Shem gave them an answer that didn't fit their liking so they said sorry I can't do it yeah and this mattress is actually enormous ly philosophically and historically complicated because what would have been if they would have said yes but but so my said the Torah is the story of the Jewish people so exactly what form would the Torah have taken now there was a seven willingly accept that whole story about Jack of taking the breakfast and you know exactly what what would what it would have meant is quite complicated but the one thing because I'll say is that the great thing that the Jewish people did was that they didn't even ask they said the statements whatever Hashem says NASA vanish man we will do and then we will here meaning we're giving God a blank check as opposed to the nation's that say tell me what you're offering we said to a Shem we'll take it even before we know Rajee Yosef actually says that every single day when a man puts on tefillin this is why you put on the hands to fill in before you put on the head to Finland like that's my luck because the hand represents the commitment to action the head represents the ability to understand cognition and just as Mattson Torah was a commitment to action even in the absence of a cognitive understanding of what that entails so every morning putting on the film is a mini mantova of NASA finish my right that's actually a very very good

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1. 0:00[Music] now all of us know the famous teaching of Cazale that God actually offered the…
2. 1:33hands to fill in before you put on the head to Finland like that's my luck…
3. 3:04Torah has 613 mitzvot and we know that 248 are positive Commandments thou shalt do and…
4. 4:37I'm a because I made bad choices not to do me to us that's fine that's…
5. 6:37gave two answers one hand is if you believe in Messiah then this is highly relevant…
6. 8:11of the lady or the non colleen when I separate myself then I'm only doing my…
7. 9:46Mishpatim the word Yakov is omitted but yeah new color that's a remnants that there's going…
8. 11:52meaning is once again now this this raises you know personally painful issues here because unfortunately…
9. 13:23that if I want to help somebody become a better Jew and so I want to…
10. 14:56and that can break down many many barriers that's why we have the phenomenon I mean…

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