Smart Jews – Parashat Va’eschanan – Rabbi Dovid Kaplan

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

Now, take a look at Parik Daled plus Yud Daled. 4 4 Daled Daled. Everybody should have a commission. Everybody should have a commission. I'll tell you in 1 second as soon as I find it. What page? Tada! This is my marker. You never say you seen it. All right. Uh, what page? >> 960 >> Um Daled Daled 960, good. Okay. So, uh, yesterday let's pick it up just just very Moshiach ben David is again reciting to the Jewish people. So, pick it up. I to the Jewish people. So, pick it up. I just want to read a couple of Sukkim as an introduction on page 958. V'ata Yisrael Sh'ma El Hashem Elokecha Asher Anochi M'tzavcha La'asoso Obey the still listen and obey the statutes and the laws which I'm commanding you. If you listen and obey the statutes and the laws which I'm commanding you that you should live and come to the land take over the land which Hashem your God is giving you. Lo Sosifu Al Hadavar Asher Anochi M'tzavchem Don't add on. V'lo Sigru Mimenu and don't detract. V'lo Sigru Mimenu and don't detract. Least far as Mitzvos Hashem Elokechem Asher Anochi M'tzavchem which we spoke about yesterday the provision of adding and detracting. Yeah. >> If you can't add, then how come they can't detract? It doesn't It's not always If you can't add, does it automatically mean you can't subtract? Not necessarily, because sometimes the adding is worse. Sometimes the adding is worse than detracting. For example, if a person has to take a certain amount of medication,

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