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Nero Caesar EXPOSED: Fact, Fiction, and the History You Were Never Taught

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Rabbi Moshe Chaim Katz

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part of the para goes into vows and oaths which is essentially the idea of using your words in a holy way because what's that what's the problem of breaking a vow breaking an oath we're going to see that what distinguishes the human being from the animals the power of articulate speech which includes das consciousness which means for you to take as a human being something which is the most being something which is the most powerful creative human quality that you have and then just abuse it, break it, use it in a way where you say one thing but do something else. That's the biggest degradation denigration of the human form is to use that thing which is unique for the human and then to not use it in the way that it should be used by breaking way that it should be used by breaking your word. So we'll see let's see the beginning the power of vows. So in the kumish section we like to help people read the words. So we're going through the words. So says the tora. You thought the time mikra was long last week. I think it last week was 165 verses. 168 verses. So this week you got over 200 verses because it's a double para. 200 verses because it's a double para. >> Let's go. [clears throat] >> Matos masai. >> Is it always double? >> Not always. during a leap year then often times will not be double. But this year is not a leap year. We only had one month of >> a leap year is when we add another month of Adar. >> What is Masai? >> Oh Masai. Masai is the travels of the

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  1. 0:00part of the para goes into vows and oaths which is essentially the idea of using
  2. 6:09down to Florida and now the journey is changing. So that's more for Masai. We'll get
  3. 12:34>> But but then if you mess [clears throat] up an oath, then you like committing
  4. 18:46>> You make a bris with your wife. >> Yes. Go. I don't know if this
  5. 25:05So as long as you're asmir in that mitzvah as you are by your and you
  6. 31:21Last couple words, very important words. Whatever comes out of your mouth, you should do. Be
  7. 37:23So then he goes out, Baramsa. So that's that's two ways to understand the story. Baramsa
  8. 43:36So the maral says that that Neroar he was palges meaning he was the second to
  9. 49:45Nero did a second thing and this is very telling. Amarle as he was coming upon
  10. 55:55because Edim is the one that's going to ultimately destroy the temple and there will be

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