Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser - Jewish Thought: The Anatomy of a Blessing

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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.

so what we're going to do is this is a class called the anatomy of abraham and you will definitely be saying brah is your whole life i don't care if you're anti-judaism you're still going to be at some passover seder making a blessing over parsley or something i don't know you'll make a blessing over your matzah we're always going to be saying which is six words and so what we're going to do is get each of those words wired so the first word that we're going to get down is the word is the word baruch and the word baruch has to do with the knees and it has to do with um with water uh water as like a source of water like a break is the source is a source of water or let's call it a water source water source that's the root from the word betray can mean or it can mean water source and obviously it means blessed as well and what it tells us is that knees tell us about drawing down it draws down your stature drawing down and it also represents humbling oneself um i mean the fact that you're making a blessing at all is uh humbling because you're saying that you are not the source of this but god is the source of this so it's already humble for us to recognize any recognition even in showing appreciation is greatly humbling when you show appreciation to someone so here it's it's drawing down and a humbling and and and here what do we mean by water source meaning source of sustenance

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1. 0:21so what we're going to do is this is a class called the anatomy of abraham…
2. 5:00that just like you are um speaking to a contemporary you use the word you so…
3. 9:53to call god you but you and god are contemporaries so to speak when you are…
4. 14:45doing we don't know what we're doing so we're all eating these like super dry crackered…
5. 19:32of men and that's why men jewish men have to do certain commandments that are that…
6. 24:15need it necessary men need to feminize women are perfect the way they are yeah but…
7. 29:08a mustang you know and put it back put it back together and yeah you know…
8. 34:00ontological definition yeah excellent excellent remember what we said what's outside the circle is unlimited by…
9. 38:45elokim so you have the name of god representing beyond space and time the transcendent or…
10. 43:38that he is a representative of the people the king has two torahs one that he…

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