Na'aseh V'Nishma: Have We Really HEARD, Yet? – Rabbi Yehoshua Simons for Shavuot

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Today is the Huskar, the first yard site of my father Aviarim Ben Shiman. May his memory be a blessing. May this be so Ysef saidim which basically means if it weren't for this day of shavat I would be just another Ysef in the marketplace kazal refer to shavat as yum katun zumatan in the midrash i.e The dash is that this is the day that we entered a very special relationship with Hashem. Now this is on the level of drash. But there are four levels to the Torah. Shhat, Re, Dash, and Sod. How do we know this from the level of Rome? Well, the Torah uses the word an instead of Ani. And the Gamarian Shabbat says the Ani is a nicon, an anagramat of an I gave my soul in writing to you. This is a very close and personal relationship. As we can see now there's also many sources in the sods. I don't need to bring any of those. That's very clear. The zoha is all about our special relationship with hashem. But how do we know this in the level of pashhat? Well, it's in the word elkha. Hashem said I am your god. He said you. This is similar to what katan says under how does it begin? You are for me. This is a proposal. Hashem is saying I want to be yours. Now this helps us answer some questions. Why in the for example do we say if you'd have taken us to but didn't give us the Torah it would have been enough. Surely the whole point of coming to was to get the Torah. Well true and receiving the Torah which is our very life was absolute necessity. Don't get me wrong, but even if we didn't get the

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1. 0:00Today is the Huskar, the first yard site of my father Aviarim Ben Shiman. May his…
2. 1:04This is a very close and personal relationship. As we can see now there's also many…
3. 2:05Torah, it would have been worth it just to enter this special relationship with Hashem. So,…
4. 3:06nafkamina is who are we responding to? Are we responding to the mitzvah or to Hashem,…
5. 4:06after Baha, Hashem said something very haunting. He said that if you walk with me with…
6. 5:10have got it into our heads unfortunately that we should never try to find out why.…
7. 6:10duffka making about us. And some people even openly say that it's all about us. It's…
8. 7:12Unfortunately, this is the problem. The cabala is essential as we learned from the Arizal and…
9. 8:14the labarbi and many more the beneskai saw kabala and halaka as one not two separate…
10. 9:18love and our soul with desire for our entire lives. And nowadays especially, there's so much…

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