Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Acharei-Kedoshim (Video #75)

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

Good evening. I hope that quite this year which we began just a few days ago and today was the yard site of Shimon Karasik. As you again know you that I was asked the question that the difference between Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam tefillin. Uh somebody in shul asked me the question and I wanted to pose that question as our question of the week. question as our question of the week. And the answer is that the Benei Issachar brings that Rashi tefillin it corresponds to the month of Nissan. We always think of Nissan that that's the turret, the pinnacle, the highest point of the year and in many respects it is. But I'll pick up bola says the Benei Issachar, Rashi tefillin can correspond to the oil of Briah to the oil of Briah which you know Asiyah, Yetzirah, Briah and Atzilut. And Rabbeinu Tam tefillin, he says, corresponds to the month of Iyar and Atzilut, not Briah. Which tells you that there is a much more of a drenching of kedusha with Rabbeinu Tam tefillin even more so than Rashi tefillin. Now we know that we have to tefillin. Now we know that we have to put on Rashi tefillin to be yoitze the mitzvah. And Rabbeinu Tam is a higher level. Many people, because it has such level of kedusha, were very hesitant to wear Rabbeinu Tam tefillin before they got married and many didn't wear it. Marsha Fine Stein first put on Rabbeinu Tam tefillin when he was 86. But many Hasidisha like Chabad, Skolya,

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2. 5:15talking about the death of the two sons of Aaron? It doesn't go into any detail.…
3. 10:24gets used to doing something, so he loses that reverence and the awe of doing it…
4. 15:33fortified in every which way. And after the Kohen Gadol came out of the Kodesh Kodashim,…
5. 20:43The Chofetz Chaim wasn't as great as a tanna. But what how can we believe it?…
6. 26:27have done at that point? They would have said, 20 I mean, think beyond Lakewood, they…
7. 31:38from the wood and went into his leg and he was gushing blood. And the boat…
8. 36:56But there's a very interesting point that the mekubalim bring out. Because it says in those…
9. 42:06Baruchu. Which means our dibbur, how we speak to people, how we davven, how we make…
10. 47:21when the time calls for it. Now, I really could go on for another half hour,…

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