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Shabbos, the Essence of Time (The Inner Dimension of Shabbos #65)

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Rabbi Yaakov Klein

A shiur on the structure of the week with Shabbos at the center, based on Rav Kluger.

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Okay, friends. So, >> yeah. >> So, with Hashem's help, we're jumping back in to Shabas. I apologize about last week. It was a bit of a crazy situation as we had a wedding that was supposed to be about an hour and a half away and it took 3 and 1 half hours to get there. Um, had to get back and the whole wedding was pushed off and it was madness. But um we're here now and we have the privilege of finishing off this mimer that we've been learning a very deep teaching about the centrality of Shabas and Ashabas is not the end of the week as most of us think it is but Shabas is rather the center of the week. Shabas is central to the week and we were learning a lot about that. Let's jump in if we can if somebody doesn't just mind letting them in. I guess that's the only problem with the enclosure. You can't get out. >> Oh, there's one on this side. Okay. So if you take a look at page shin pay shin um the last paragraph that we were looking at was if I'm not mistaken which comes from's poem it says shin on the on the top right hand Right? And we understood that what does it mean, right? That to the right and to the left and in the middle is the bride. So the

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