You Are Never Stuck - Likkutei Sichos Matos

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

We're going to be learning this evening a sicha, a talk, an address that was presented by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Shabbos Parshas Mattos-Masei, Taf Shin Lamed Beis. That's the summer of 1972. Part of it was published in Likutei Sichos, volume 13, Parshas Mattos, the second sicha published over there Parshas Mattos. And again, I express my gratitude to my And again, I express my gratitude to my dear beloved friend Shloimy and Mirel Greenwald for making all of this happen, and the project Likutei Sichos for their beautiful work for Hafatzas HaTorah, spreading Torah all [snorts] over the world. The Lubavitcher Rebbe addresses here a story, well-known story in Parshas Mattos, to which the Torah dedicates, interestingly, a lot of space. interestingly, a lot of space. And he addresses some basic fundamental questions, and then presents a unique approach with a very powerful lesson [snorts] in life. In order to appreciate the discussion, the conversation, the shiur, let's study a little section of Parshas Mattos inside, and I'm going to ask you to please be attentive. Listen to the structure of the psukim, listen to the words of the psukim, listen to what these psukim are telling us. telling us. So, open your source sheets. The first source you see, Parshas Mattos perek lamed aleph, psukim chof vav mem zayin. It's the Book of Numbers chapter 31 verses 26 through 47. Let's remember the context. Context is always critical. The nation of Midian strategized a plan in order to execute genocide against the Jewish people, nothing less. Midian came up with a brilliant and malicious scheme in order to lure the

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4. 19:04These questions arise when any serious students reads this possuk. These are questions you should be…
5. 25:49If the story would have been written the way logically if we think it should [laughter]…
6. 32:18Beautiful idea. Because if you look at the period number 11 in the source sheet, the…
7. 38:29so, so therefore the half was so and so, so therefore the taxation could be so…
8. 45:19840,000 living organism. Again, you can make the calculation. And by the way, you may want…
9. 51:41From a Halachic perspective, there's another way of explaining the four above mentioned contrast that the…
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