Rabbi Guy Matalon - Weekly Torah Portion: Emor - Part 1

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

so before we get started on the parsha of the week which we will be learning together from sunday through wednesday the ramban in his introduction to sephir vayikra leviticus tells us what the book is all about and i want to give you sort of the ramban's big picture of the first three books of books of the khomesh three books of the torah so that you have an idea of where we're going so the raman says the first book of the torah which is called is about is about the beginning the beginning the creation of the universe the creation of uh human beings of animals of civil society of everything else so we are talking about the sephirah but a sheet is about the book of creation the creation of everything when we get to shemot which is the second book he calls it sephir ullah the book of redemption why redemption why redemption because the ramban says the whole purpose of the book is to teach us how we were able to reconnect the divine presence god's connection to us the book doesn't now don't get confused in english we call the book what exodus which is what's the main part of the book leaving egypt but if you do that then you are stuck with two thirds of the book not complete yet right they live in the first third of the book you have two-thirds the rest of the book you have two-thirds the rest of the book what happens then what happens throughout exodus the book of uh what happens anybody brothers they what the brothers the ramban says what allows the connection of the shrine to the jewish people is the mishka

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2. 4:06and mishma mishkan and the keeping or guarding of the mishkan because the one book we…
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