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Rabbi Daniel Kalish

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Welcome to Shas Illuminated. Please enjoy the following [music] sheer. I want to I want to learn two two things with the Havruta before before we have a few minutes of short second seder. And with zechut our mitzvah chaviva, our precious mitzvah of Ner Chanukah, I'd like to study something on parshas Vayeishev and then something on Ner Chanukah. They'll be two the two may connect, but we'll see. I want to ask I want to ask the guys a I want to ask I want to ask the guys a question, something that for a long time bothers me, but I want to study it now. Rebbe Shapiro spoke shaalos u'tshuvos. He said dvarim nifla'im that connect mamash to Chanukah. It connects to the mitzvah of hadlakas Ner Chanukah. He said something that's me'ussas of Chanukah, and please understand this in your own learning. He was describing like I have times my kids want to like prepare for a test kids want to like prepare for a test with a school or learn a pasuk with me. Okay, so let's prepare. My teacher said, "And you always learn put the Chazal through your system. Read the pasuk, read the Rashi, and work it through. I don't care Abuchu I once learned Forget what you once learned. Take now and put the Torah through your system. Rebbe Shapiro's speeches are magical to me because you magical to me because you when he speaks, it always feels like he's telling a story. That's how all of us b'tzalmo should learn Torah. When he speaks, he tells you what happened. I looked at the Chazal, and I was very troubled because he's he's filtering the Chazal through his essence. You feel you're getting the Chazal filtered right through this holy head. That's Torah. He quoted Rabbi Shapiro quoted from my farkas that when you hear divrei Torah

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  1. 0:00Welcome to Shas Illuminated. Please enjoy the following [music] sheer. I want to I want to
  2. 5:41Yesevet Sadiq's strength, is he viewed her, "You're my boss's wife. You're my boss's wife." He
  3. 11:53to a random person and said shech fiyumi khatosi leloikem, I'm not allowed. That's the truth.
  4. 17:34And it could be in in in what in what said the first breach is is
  5. 23:52Our job you would about Hasidic Shabbos. You're not allowed. God said no. Do you know
  6. 29:52me look that's very hard I that's not where I'm not I'm not there. Often if
  7. 35:40This is an incredible this is this is about of holding back but we should study
  8. 41:50Rebbi Eliezer said, "Every chuvah sheb'olam like kiblu minahu." They didn't accept it. I have like
  9. 47:30refers to the tire as dew. It refers to the tire as dew. Yared kamatar l'chi.
  10. 53:07zav. It's a gzeirah midorabanan. Maybe, in the face of hadlakas hamenorah, we should be mevatal

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