The Book of Ezra: Chapter 7 - The Exemption of Torah Scholars From Taxes-Army Service

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

because on the first day of the first month was the beginning of his Ascent from Babel is he comes to Jerusalem as the uh Providence of God which which was uh good to him and we pointed out last week so it's a good thing uh we're reminding ourselves that the beginning of the parrot traces Ezra back beginning of the parrot traces Ezra back until who why are we saying that so simply we're speaking about the pure lineage and youthless of Ezra that this man is backed by tremendous but perhaps also it's giving us a little bit of a uh insight into the process that's happening over here and that is the day that he arrives back into shalaim is the first day of Av which happens to be the yard side of aranakayan okay um that's also important yeah yes yes okay prepared his heart literally Hashem to seek out the Torah of a God the last ice and to perform it will Allah may be Israel and to teach the Jewish people statutes and judgments let me just speak out again the way we ended off last week and that is the malbum on pasigve points and that is the malbum on pasigve points out that Ezra of course was one of the founders of the yanchekness was one of the last members of the answer is stressing this because amalbam says strengthened these three areas of avadis Hashem is they fortified the pillar of avidation then Ezra comes in he fortifies the pillar of Tyra and as we're gonna learn again let's get clear Ezra has nothing to do with the minion based on miktas Ezra has one primary job strengthen learning Torah strengthening Torah observance and then later on strengthens the wall of the city strengthens the uh the societal aspects of Hashem and quite interestingly even

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