How are Jews still around?-Bechukosai - The Parshah On Fire

What’s said in this shiur

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

declarations of the misery that will one day rain down upon us if we fail to hold up Hashem's flag in this world. How our bodies will languish. How our enemies will dominate us. How wild animals will kill us and our children and destroy our roads and cities. How we'll be met with sword and plague and sickness. How we'll encounter forms of death unfathomably gruesome and ghastly. How we'll eat the very flesh of our own children out of hunger. and will be scattered amongst the nations of the world. And our lands will become desolate and our cities in ruin and we'll be rendered into a bunch ruin and we'll be rendered into a bunch of carcasses and heaped together into a pile of rot. Yeah, kind of scary. But here's what's strange. Just as the para is ending and it finishes saying all those horrible things that are going to happen to us if we don't follow in Hashem's ways, it throws in something that seems to have nothing to do with anything, just completely unrelated. Immediately after following the the Tyra decides to discuss the laws of the the right that each Jew has to donate his monetary value to the Bdash. donate his monetary value to the Bdash. Why does the Tyra place the laws of right after the doesn't it take away just a little bit from the importance and the magnitude of the topic? Why would the Tyra follow its thunderous and ominous description of the very serious almost apocalyptic catastrophes that will rain down on us with something as technical and seemingly unrelated as a so perhaps the following idea can give us a clue. Out of all the many character traits that the Jewish people exhibit,

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2. 2:03traits that the Jewish people exhibit, the one that is perhaps most impressive, the one that…
3. 4:06From the Holocaust, the most horrid loss of Jewish life in our nation's history comes the…
4. 6:08strong." Of course, there were miracles throughout Jewish history. No one's saying not. But our survival…
5. 8:10transformative Jewish community outside in Jewish history. We're exiled. We have to run to Persia, modernday…
6. 10:12how grim and gory the backdrop is, one's nama is intrinsically holy. No amount of persecution…
7. 12:14That's the symbol of change. A big stone in the sky that just sits there. So,…
8. 14:14shortsightedness or their shallowess by saying that their eyes aren't fully developed yet. No, no, no.…
9. 16:19Russians, we went all the way to space, and you know what? God wasn't there. It's…
10. 18:22his head and he viciously beat the Reb, swinging the rifle like a baseball bat. and…

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