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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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Okay. Let's see. All right. Start in a moment. Okay. All right, let's see. Can you guys hear me? It's good. Sounds good. Let's start in a moment. And Okay. We're back here on our Wednesday night Shiur Torah where after some divrei Torah, you guys will ask some questions and then we'll get some answers. Kadosh Baruch Hu will give us the answers b'ezrat Hashem. Who do you think you are? All of us have heard this expression at one point or another. And some of us have had it directed at them. Something that we said, something that we did. Now, if we really ask this question seriously, and demand an answer from ourselves, there's actually a lot of musar that you can learn from it. Especially if you're facing a very enticing forbidden act. Now, in fact, if we ask it of other people, but in our mind, not to them, because there's just simply no reason to start conflict, then we can actually arrive at some different conclusions than what you'd actually think. Now, what does this have to do with parashat tsav, the parashah of the week? That's actually what we're going to learn. Years ago, there was a massive amount of theft happening in one of the countries in Europe. And the king over there wanted to stop it. But what could he do that every second person seemed like he was a thief? So, the king was thinking, what can I do? What can I do? While this king is thinking, a case comes to him, and his guards are holding this young boy, and they said, "My lord, we got him." Who? What does he want? He said, "Oh, this this thief. This thief, we caught him right in front of us. He was being nice to one of the

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  1. 0:00Okay. Let's see.
  2. 5:54And he makes the announcement that this is going to take place. But to show his
  3. 12:12I want to make sure that everyone knows this year was for the the wash the
  4. 19:40The answer is because that's how God created us. We respond to fear much more than
  5. 26:06It's even good. Just not good enough. It's just not. Yeah, you gave tzedakah. But it
  6. 32:24koach baklipot ad she'chozer bitshuvah motzi maklipah." Says all of the deeds, all of the things
  7. 38:14or you lived at the time of the Beit Hamikdash, or you lived 500 years ago,
  8. 44:37will be cut off from its people. Karet. Now, to human logic, this sounds extreme. This
  9. 51:03Naturally, just simply like abrasive and like attacking. They have no no tolerance whatsoever to anyone
  10. 57:28saw the look in his face. Yeah, he means evil. He means to hurt me. What

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