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

everyone to tonight's Shiur. I want to thank the organizers that put this together in Elizabeth may her have an Aliyah through the Torah that we learn tonight. in fact I do. But I think we have to speak about a little bit about the core of what Shavuot all together is in order to really appreciate Shavuot, really appreciate being Israel. I think we far too often forget really the purpose of certain things that we do in life, certain things that we have in life, certain that we have in life cuz we just do them. We just forget why we have them, why we do them. And it's critical for for any Jew in life not to turn into a robot. It is critical cuz it's very easy to become like that. We have to always ask questions. The reason why it's very easy to become like a robot is quite simple. We have so many different routine that we do all the time. So naturally we're doing them all the time. We don't realize them. We don't ask. We don't We don't try to figure out more about the So At the Seder night We have a series of questions that are asked and we say the asks this and the asks that and the asks this. The has an interesting question. The question is not that much different than the Rasha's Many Hakhamim ask this. Goes, "Ma What are these Khukim u Mishpatim? What are these rules and regulations that Hashem has given us?" Which the only minor difference between

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