Chelek 25, Lech Lecha 2 - Rabbi Shalom Moshe Paltiel - Sicha Discourse with Spreadsheet

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volume 25, the second of this is based on this is about the Rambam the closing section of the laws of circumcision where the Rambam speaks about how great the bris is and he concludes by saying that the bris is so great that 13 covenants were given with that mitzvah as opposed to all the rest of mitzvah which only had three covenants. There are three times in the Torah where the Torah says that uh we're doing the mitzvah because of a covenant with Hashem. Whereas the bris just for that one mitzvah 13 covenants 13 languages of covenant and therefore the bris is so extraordinary. [snorts] What becomes curious is when we compare this Rambam to his source. Let's take a look. So there is a Mishna in the tract of Nadar which says this statement that the bris was given with 13 covenants. It doesn't list the verses. It just says that fact. The bris was given with 13 covenants. It's extraordinary. However, the Talmud, the Gammorra, the Jerusalem version of it, on that Mishna in the Durham elaborates, as the Talmud often elaborates on the Mishna and says, you know what the 13 covenants are as stated and he starts saying the following. On that day, Hashem made a covenant with Abraham, which is a verse in chapter 15 in Batius in Genesis until and I will establish my covenant with Isaac. This is the book ends that if you go to Beratas, you open up chapter 15:18,

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1. 0:03volume 25, the second of this is based on this is about the Rambam the closing…
2. 4:50that's very much less than satisfactory because if that's the case, why did the Jerusalem in…
3. 9:46go back to the to the source of that Jerusalem Talmud, the the classic Mishna upon…
4. 14:33vow not to take any benefit from someone who's uncircumcised. I vow from the uncircumcised." It's…
5. 19:16that every mitzvah has what's called the gavra the relationship to the person observing it and…
6. 24:12There are two aspects in the mitzvah of bris. There's the general covenant and there's specific…
7. 29:00world to come. It doesn't over it overrides everything because it's not about the specificity of…
8. 33:42So to recap what we just learned. Oh, so now that we answered that question, now…
9. 38:33introductory verse as an introduction to the covenant because the general covenant is the theme of…
10. 43:18some reason when it comes to hilkas in our section the laws of bris ram chooses…

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