Parshas Shoftim with Reb Chaim Kramer

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Shalom. Welcome to the breast of weekly paria. This week is param. We're in the month of El and Parim is always the first chabas in. And it's got a lot of laws. It just goes one after the other law after one of the most it starts off talking about and judges and policemen. The judges adjudicate the law and the policemen carry out the law. That's the way the pure starts mostly. It then focuses on idolatry even though it applies to all the laws of Torah when we have to take action when we can uh overlook something and uh not always do we overlook but we have to understand human nature. But when it comes to idolatry, we have to go all the way. Get your witnesses. They served idols and you have to do away with the people. Death penalty. And you think about it, what's so terrible? I mean, what happened today? How many idols do you have? Maybe you have a few Indian tool polls. Maybe I don't know maybe in Africa there's a few places that still practice voodoo and whatnot but Buddhist you have certain types of idolatry. Okay, but let us not think that we're clean of idolatry. That's the point. The Torah is eternal. The Torah talks about idolatry that it's a tangible thing even in today's generation. And what would it represent? Well, the Talmud teaches that anyone who was arrogant, it's as if he served idols, right? Arrogant. worthiness. It means you made yourself into an idol that you think you're something special. No good. Anger. The Guru says it's as if he served idolatry. Anger. Because you lose control of yourself. You're no longer recognizing that there's a God. You think that whatever is yours, you deserve it.

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1. 0:03Shalom. Welcome to the breast of weekly paria. This week is param. We're in the month…
2. 1:14and uh not always do we overlook but we have to understand human nature. But when…
3. 2:48Arrogant. worthiness. It means you made yourself into an idol that you think you're something special.…
4. 4:33there was a wolf with a microphone, right? A wolf with a microphone over a flock…
5. 6:14how you're not allowed to engage in it. It speaks about idolatry. And you know what?…
6. 7:46right? Oh, in the fid on the roof, there was a song if I were a…
7. 9:27lifegiving things that are available in the world and we have to be very careful with…
8. 11:06The uh cow, the uh calf, the calf that is killed. What happens? Torah explains like…
9. 12:45an animal that will seek out the murderer and it will kill the murderer. Now, what…
10. 14:21Hashem and there is a judgment capital J and the judge will take judgment and we…

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