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The Most Important Purim Class You'll Hear This Year

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Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser

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gentleman welcome to practical spirituality here in the old city of Jerusalem a t-shirt or overlooking the Temple Mount here we are these are our final class right before the holiday of Purim perm is one of the funnest holidays of the year but it's also one of the holiest holidays of the earth and you want to look out for like spontaneous combustion in the middle of some of the parties of the dancing and all this stuff going on where you just like go compulsively sobbing because of the connection between you and God you see historically Jewish events were you see historically Jewish events were were you know based on on I mean really based on temple period times where where there were specific services that the Kohanim we're doing you know it's right outside this window literally you know I mean I can show you if you like to see because we got the Temple Mount right out of here so me so the Kohanim the priest you know it was like this constant concert going on and and it was like it was just amazing what was going on out there and amazing what was going on out there and but it was all based around the holidays so you had like the chauffeur of russia shana and you had that the sofas and them and the loves and the and the giant parties that were throwing in the temple during during the pilgrimage festivals and all this but every one of these holidays were holidays that are depicted in our torah they're all depicted in our torah with this very specific measurements of what you do on that holiday and what you don't do as well like Pesach has a lot of don't do's and it's got what you should do and including like four cups of wine or

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  1. 0:01gentleman welcome to practical spirituality here in the old city of Jerusalem a t-shirt or overlooking
  2. 4:43this is so amazing I mean do do apple watches offer that mine does apparently anyway
  3. 8:58other two holidays with all those very strict prescriptions and in fact very interestingly that it
  4. 13:07all these different choices micro choices micro choices but you're like constantly like navigating you're like
  5. 17:14before and I've seen some very smart scabs and various but it's really all around the
  6. 21:53with tons of Dunson Bravo Jim we want it just like that just like that anything
  7. 26:35poram the holiday of Purim is just a story it's a narrative it's a narrative where
  8. 31:38is one day you're chopping wood in the morning and up drives the most beautiful chariot
  9. 35:40in mind but you're like starting to forget them and you're meaning because you're just freaking
  10. 39:46Barrow schism is a full-on hardcore narcissist mm on the 19 millennial and then there's this

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