Chelek 26, Bo 01- Rabbi Ari Shishler

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It's no accident that the first mitzvah the Jewish people were given is the mitzvah to establish a calendar. So that means that the mitzvah of establishing the calendar must somehow crystallize everything that Judaism is all about. The mitzvah to sanctify new months and that the bin should have the task of calculating and determining the months the years and the months. All of that is no medicine. That's a quotation from the Raam in his min. So all of that is learned from the in this week's para. This month of Nissan will be for you the head of all of the months. The first of the months throughout the course of the year. We also know that much earlier on in the Torah Rashi addressed this particular mitzvah saying that by riots the Torah should have started with this mitzvah. After all, the Torah is a book of instruction. It should have begun with a mitzvah. That is the first mitzvah the Jewish people were given. It's the most appropriate thing to launch the Torah with. And there in precious berious he explains why the Torah started with borius to illustrate the rights of the Jewish people to the land of Israel. Now those who list the 613 mitzvah like primarily the when they list the mitzvah in order they don't put this one as the first mitzvah. It's in fact it's deliberate that they don't put the mitzvah of kdesh as the first of the six3 mitzvah. Let's use an example we're familiar with says the first mitzvah of the positive mitzvah is to know that there is a god based on the first of the now why does the do that it's quite logical it's simple to understand why he does so

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1. 0:00It's no accident that the first mitzvah the Jewish people were given is the mitzvah to…
2. 4:56explain. The third will take the bulk of the our para points out the tells us…
3. 9:51That also give us a a beautiful insight to one more point. Even though Rashi says,…
4. 14:44until that object actually becomes holy like a that previously was just a piece of skin.…
5. 19:29And it's likewise very simply the case with humans. Person first has an allocation of time…
6. 24:38he leaves out the word he says there's a single we have to calculate and determine…
7. 29:30measurement of time or representation of time is for what? Now any other thing that exists…
8. 34:12that exists. Some things it's glaring. That's a it's holy. We know that it's connected. Or…
9. 39:06all the considerations that you have to take into account in order to work out whether…
10. 43:55regardless of what kind of a year it was as we say in our 365 corresponds…

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