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The Secret of Jewish Greatness: Humility, Light & Self-Control | Parshas Behaalotecha

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Rabbi Dov Ber Weisman

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Hashem, Hashem spoke to Mashe. Page 774. Hashem spoke to Mashe. Anyone as excited as me about that or you still you're like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hashem spoke to my Is that exciting to you?" At this point in the class, if Rausha of Anipoli was here, I would have said more of would have stood up and be like, more of would have stood up and be like, "Ah, to my head." He would have run out into the forest and started crying his eyes out and screaming and speaking to Hashem. That's how we should be, boys. We're not alive. You're not alive. You're not If you're not excited by that, you're not alive. anymore and is freaking out especially because we know Hashem is backwards because it's a communication. We're back and forth here as an Hashem. We're back and forth here as an Hashem. Then the whole beginning of the para is all about the minora. The minora how many branches did the minora have? Seven branches of the manora. Why does that excite you? Why are you why do you love the number seven? The number seven. Yeah. Why did you freak out? You just hear the number seven and you freak out. It's the lucky number. Why is it the lucky number? Because seven. Give me one holy seven in Judaism. Tell me. Shabbat. Shabbat is the seventh day. me. Shabbat. Shabbat is the seventh day. Creation. Seven days of creation. Tell you seven days creation. Seven days of pesak. Seven days of sukot. Seven times your kala is going to walk around you if you're ashkenazi. to fill in. You wrap seven times. Seven years. Seven years of schmita. Seven weeks of se counting seven from pesak to shared the seven. Whoa. But I'm going to teach you a new seven children. The seven gateways into your

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  1. 0:02Hashem, Hashem spoke to Mashe. Page 774. Hashem spoke to Mashe. Anyone as excited as me
  2. 3:13when you light up, when you light up, you got to light up yourself. Are you
  3. 6:19husband and invest in becoming a good husband and be a bit So, you got to
  4. 9:22and it was amazing. The first time you realized there's a God, the first time you
  5. 12:27is a little bit of distance though. That is distance but not fear is like wow.
  6. 15:31and stuff. It once again I've given many talks about how you should be doing sport
  7. 18:36spiritual reason I think people don't understand is because there's no mitzvah So there's nothing to
  8. 21:45not a human. Because you should want to what? I want to eat bread. Then I
  9. 24:50an artist that's why we think it's very important to do art and music and sport
  10. 27:56someone. People, we're just like animals. We feel a discomfort in any way. Let's get rid

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