Ki Tetse. Emunah and Taking Precaution

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shay Tahan’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[music] >> Hello. This week's parashah, Ki Teitzei, teaches us an inspiring lesson of emunah, one that can be particularly uplifting [music] for anyone struggling with challenges or difficult circumstances. The Torah [music] says about the mitzvah of ma'akeh, ki sitivne bayit chadash, when you build a new house, as it says in Ma'aseh Ma'akeh, legagecha should make >> [music] >> a guardrail for your roof. Why? So that >> a guardrail for your roof. Why? So that you do not place blood in your house when the fall should when the when the one that falls should fall from it. Ki pol nafel mimenu, pen yipol hanofel mimenu, which means he fell already. Rashi famously asked, why does the Torah refers to the person as the one who falls before he was yet actually fallen? Now he's still standing. Why does the Torah describe him as the one that fell already? That's very strange. And over here comes a fascinating explanation in Chazal, and they explain that the

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1. 0:05[music] >> Hello. This week's parashah, Ki Teitzei, teaches us an inspiring lesson of emunah, one…
2. 0:35>> a guardrail for your roof. Why? So that you do not place blood in your…
3. 1:08Chazal, and they explain that the the this person already destined to fall from the time…
4. 1:39It's destined to fall. It's not my fault that he fell. If the accident was already…
5. 2:11install a guardrail. Perhaps a person >> [music] >> was destined to fall elsewhere, but he…
6. 2:43our choices and actions. In other words, emunah in and human responsibility do not contradict one…

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