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Divine Information (in Hebrew with Russian subtitles)

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Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi

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[Music] k [Music] What's the point? Just to have a little history so that we know, for example, the song by Arik Einstein, Joel Moshe Salomon and Zerach Bernal. I was in school. They taught me that it was all kinds of people from the Zionist movement who came and decided to establish the state here and risked their lives. But they never told me that they were all rabbis. No one told me that. No one told me that Petah Tikva, Rosh Pina, Rishon LeZion, all these colonies that we were taught in school. we were taught in school. Religious people, old rabbis from Europe, with all the tuberculosis and the stock that was here, came and established the state here. No one told me now why I'm starting the lecture with this. Because just as we learned about citizenship and history that are not accurate, they also completely cut us off from Judaism. For example, until five years ago, I didn't know who Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai was. I didn't know what Zohar was. I didn't know who Rambam was. I didn't know who Hari the Holy One was. I didn't know what Shulchan Aruch was. If you had asked me what Shulchan Aruch was. If you had asked me five years ago, Shulchan Aruch would have been I think it's a cookbook. If you ask 90% of the Jews in the world today what makes you a Jew, one person doesn't know the answer. Even among those who already observe Shabbat and those who are religious, ask them what the word Jew means. What makes you a Jew? They don't know. This is a Jew. It's at the level of A. I don't care about the tradition-observant thing and things like that. I care more about

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  3. 13:23Persian Quran, a Kuti Quran, a Quran of the Egyptians, different priests with different words with
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  5. 26:51fire and shouted, "Hear, Israel," everything was just, everything was just. This is impossible. To write
  6. 33:15logs and run to the wall. Boom, they knock it down. Once, twice, three times. The
  7. 39:13years ago About 200 years ago, scrolls were discovered on lime-processed paper like a Torah scroll
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  9. 51:50there. And I was tortured to death there. It's very interesting that his pelvis, legs, hands,
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