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Shmini - The 7 Drinks | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Hi, this is David Alowski. Welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we try to give you a little idea about the parha. Um we're in vayikra now deep as darkest vayikra right the stories are starting to end. We punctuate uh stories from here on in but uh they're certainly not like braces and schmos where they are permeated. Yeah, they're punctuated. And um we come to parasmini and we start to get into right and we're going to continue mitsur a lot of tum and tara. So um we have something that seems extremely esoteric and that is the den of makiran. You do rashi you'll see the big long rashi over there by makiran which tells me the following and I always bring this as an example of how everything that we learn has to be relevant to our life. Yeah. What used to call uh to whatever we learn or as Shapiro said whatever we learn no matter how esoteric it may seem has to turn into a lisa in our life. So there's the concept of makiran. What does that mean? Apples are growing on the tree and something tm falls on them. Do they become tame? No. Why? Because they're attached to the ground. Okay. I take the fruit off and I put them into a basket and something tame falls on top of them. Are they tame? No. Because they first have to become uh wet. Okay. I left them outside and the dew fell on them. Are they now ready to become tame? No, it has to be intentionally. Okay. Uh, I pick all of my grapes and then I pour orange juice all over them. Does that make them now ready to become tame? No. Only seven liquids which are known by the

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  1. 0:00Hi, this is David Alowski. Welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we…
  2. 0:30parasmini and we start to get into right and we're going to continue mitsur a lot…
  3. 1:01as an example of how everything that we learn has to be relevant to our life.…
  4. 1:35put them into a basket and something tame falls on top of them. Are they tame?…
  5. 2:08pneummonic device, which stands for yin, wine, dvash, honey. Shin is she oil. Yeah is milk…
  6. 2:39tame. Yeah. Rabbi Murai Kornfeld who is the head of the Dafy Institute. I saw him…
  7. 3:11parish in five. Okay. And that is what do they correspond to? Well, uh PES corresponds…
  8. 3:42year, rightash? Uh, mic the den to sweeten the den. Yeah. Uh, purim wine obviously says…
  9. 4:16milk so too the Jewish people are sustained by Torah which is compared to milk is…
  10. 4:46saying it here mamish bakitsur but just to teach you that when you come to vayikra…

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