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Shabbat and Bringing G-d into the World (Parsha Vayakhel) פרשה ויקהל

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Rabbi Aaron L Raskin

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  1. 0:07There's a Jewish joke that on Shabbos one is not supposed to talk about business. So,…
  2. 1:42And that is the Torah begins with the words "Vayakhel Moshe." And Moses assembled "Es kol…
  3. 3:18"Ha'devarim." The things. Things are two. It's plural. "Ha." The is extra. So, we add one…
  4. 4:50how is it that these 39 labors that we are required to do in order to…
  5. 6:21have intimacy with the wife of Potiphar, which we know he did not have because he…
  6. 8:23Speech is a malacha? Because God created the physical world through speech. Bereshit bara Elohim in…
  7. 9:58on Shabbos, they were allowed to do all of the avodah, all of the obligation. And…
  8. 11:34And is why we find today that Shabbos is a day of prayer and Torah study…
  9. 13:09That when you go to work you could be a lawyer or a doctor or a…
  10. 14:42This tells us that in essence, all of these melachos, all of these labors, are rooted…

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