Rabbi David Kaplan - Weekly Torah Portion: Bechukotai - Part 2

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

take a look take a look at uh page 710 okay so we started yesterday talking about the various uh the various uh what do you call it the calamities uh that could befall the jewish people now uh just go back to pasuk you'd dalid for a second okay so it says like this uh if you don't obey me velo sasso is called and you don't do these mitzvos now um yesterday we were talking about in um yesterday we were talking about in the big areas sunday i think when we started we spoke about imbecosa teleco talks about being uh i remember talking about the accounts of being um albatora you got to work at torah the torah is something you have to toil in so he says the implosive if you do not know baby and rashi says leo meilimba torah if you do not toil in torah so then that triggers off all of the lack of obedience to torah and eventually you end up with destruction and the base amigos and everything else basically is amigos and everything else basically is being destroyed so you know again let's just get this point clear what is the big deal about working hard at it what's a big deal about working hard at it if you don't work hard at torah i mean okay we learn torah without you but if you don't work hard at torah it's going to lead to this that the other next thing you know you're going to be uh intermarrying everything you're doing do all sorts of abominations destroy the base aminos what is it about working hard at torah specifically that's just so fundamental so so important so vital so

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1. 0:29take a look take a look at uh page 710 okay so we started yesterday talking…
2. 3:04him if torah is important we work at it and if it's a i had a…
3. 6:08campus and the sociologists went wild with this you know checking and it turned out that…
4. 9:13the book of a yikra and let's open up the book of dvarim both times where…
5. 12:20one of the oldest uh attacks on judaism people say why should i do this mitzvah…
6. 15:26relaxing i mean why is there are you gonna have a couple of beers a beer…
7. 18:01gotta pay 70 or a piece of fruit on sukkahs right so you could explain it's…
8. 21:13okay three-fifths of the male value okay don't this isn't the first var tori you should…
9. 24:21he drops from 50 to 15. he's even more than he's even more he drops even…
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