The Power of Shabbat & Jewish Unity | Parshat Vayakhel

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

So this is what just happened. The sin of the golden calf, the worst thing that any nation has ever done. Um 40 days after receiving the Torah, face to face intimate relationship with Hashem. Basically commit adultery. Bam. Destroyed everything. We said in last week's para this is why Masher Rabon is like the sadic because he says to says to Hashem why are you so upset by this to Hashem why are you so upset by this what do you mean why am I so upset by this they just did the worst thing ever basically pulls Am Israel out of this trouble goes back up the mountain for 40 days comes down on Yamipur having received the second lot the new set of of tablets and the 13 midot And we said last week, do you know what's amazing about my he basically created the 13? Because he said to Hashem, why are you so upset? Just find the good in you so upset? Just find the good in them. Just look for the good. Just be compassionate, Hashem. And then Hashem says, I am now going to teach you my 13 which suddenly just arrived. Yes, says all the holy Jewish masters that Hashem responds to us says in you should know what is above you. But the and others say know what is above is from you. So Hashem is your above is from you. So Hashem is your shadow. Hashem how you act Hashem responds. So Moshe acted with mercy. So, Hashem mirrors that and acts with mercy. That's why we know that Hashem is Masha backwards. That's what we said last week. And now he's come down the mountain. It's Yonipur. The next day starts our para Israel. Moshe gathered together the whole of Am Israel. We have this very

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1. 0:00So this is what just happened. The sin of the golden calf, the worst thing that…
2. 2:02whole of Am Israel. We have this very very important theme in Jewish understanding which is…
3. 4:42creation. Without Shabas you're not alive. You're just not alive. You're a lovely person. I love…
4. 7:17Tuesday, Friday. How does that work? Very quickly, Sunday created light. Yum, the sun. Yumi, the…
5. 9:54together in ourselves as Israel via let's gather together, then we can't receive. If it's the…
6. 12:28an aspect of shabas and every mitzvah you do and every you make everything shabas just…
7. 15:00house and a nice car and the bigger the house and the nicer the car and…
8. 17:35"But how are you going to b pay the rent?" And he said, "Hashem won't take…
9. 20:12this is [Music] as soon as you notice your mind overthinking just stop. Say stop. Now…
10. 22:49anymore. So in you got all this overthinking going on. You just got to stop your…

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