Zera Shimshon Ki Tetzei #2 5785 - Rabbi Zvi Kahn

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

[Music] to good evening doer. We are in the zera shim and on paras we're going to do obe section number two. Before we begin we're going to take a look at the first few sukim in our para of kis. So this is easy to find because they're right at the beginning of the para when you go out to war against your enemies and Hashem gives you your enemy in your hands. You conquer your enemy and you take captives. Next, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you desire her and you will take her for yourself to be a wife. In other words, you're allowed to take this uh this captive woman to be your wife, but there's a process as the continue and you will bring her to your house and she will shave her head and she will do her nails. What that means is the subject of the piece in the shim. What does it mean? She will do her nails. We'll get to that. And she will remove her captive garment from upon upon herself. She she she uh the the captive women would wear their finery, their nice clothing in order to hope that the en that the conquering army wouldn't kill them. So they were wearing nice clothing. She has to remove that fancy clothing and she will dwell in your home and she will cry and mourn for her mother and father for 30 days and afterwards you will come you can come to her and be intimate with her and then she can be for you as a wife. So that that's the beginning of the very famous section called uh dealing with the asas yas toar the captive the

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1. 0:07[Music] to good evening doer. We are in the zera shim and on paras we're going…
2. 2:19and she will dwell in your home and she will cry and mourn for her mother…
3. 5:06the Torah says she should do something to her head in the Torah says she should…
4. 7:41uh with it with some of his closest followers and uh when uh ultimately Abalam was…
5. 10:25What is Rashi coming to make known to us? What is Rashi telling us that we…
6. 13:11because she's doing different things, it makes sense that the pusk would use different verbs. It…
7. 15:21Okay? We see that the Torah is trying to make her unattractive. That's the point of…
8. 18:08what it could say. The Torah in fact could have said she should do her head…
9. 20:53continuing to the next page on the right the Torah chose to use different verbs. It…
10. 23:32The Torah clearly did not want to do that. It wanted to use different verbs for…

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