Duties of the Mind by Rabbi Avigdor Miller

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Well, shalom everybody. Welcome back. Thank you so much for joining me and hugs. Uh this video is probably going to go up after the festival. Uh so I hope everybody had a a good sukot. Uh and a good month of alul and tish. Uh it's very busy time. A lot of things happening. Uh and so now it's time to get back into it. Not that we left anything. Not that we didn't, you know, we we weren't into it. But we're merely changing gears now. And uh we are commencing uh back to the very beginning of the Torah, the Torah portions, the of the Torah, the Torah portions, the the Kumash, the first five books of the Bible in Noah Paras Noah. Uh we're up to page 162 uh in our Musa uh videos that that I've been dedicating myself in doing. And uh part 20 which is entitled the author's approach. And we are sort of coming near the end of the author's discussion with the author to kind of get to the bottom of the validity of such a book based on a topic validity of such a book based on a topic of duties of the mind. And if if it is a valid topic, then is he worthy to write a safer on it? And if he isn't worthy, is that rooted in uh laziness or a desire to seek the path of least resistance? Because when somebody writes a safer, they can expose themselves to a lot of criticism and uh you know rebuke. You know, not everybody's possibly will like the safer. And in fact, a lot of uh

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1. 0:02Well, shalom everybody. Welcome back. Thank you so much for joining me and hugs. Uh this…
2. 6:15understood language of his day and uh you know his goal was not to write something…
3. 12:28or sorry pneumonic I think I pronounced that wrong abbreviations and explained it using analogies. uh…
4. 18:44we must do to this concept of the oneness of Hashem which is dealt with in…
5. 24:50television and movies but it's more what Moshe did how he surrendered himself how he humbled…
6. 30:55when he said from my flesh I can see all him. So when you look at…
7. 37:05gratitude. Okay, you're always sitting in the divine, basking in the glory of the divine presence.…
8. 43:13Hashem. Whether it's good or bad. I mean, obviously you don't want to do something bad,…
9. 49:30their own well-being. Uh, less they stay where they are and be destroyed too. And so,…
10. 55:41my power and the strength of my hand. Um, okay. It is part of our bitqua…

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