Rabbi David Tawil: Shabuot- Humility, A Prerequisite to Torah

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all right so thank you everyone for joining us I know it's it's late but it's a really inspirational to see people on late at night trying to get themselves ready for the holiday of Shavuot men might entertain at the time of receiving the Torah and what I wanted to do tonight is to take a look at one of the major characteristics that every human being needs to have in order to be able to really accept the Torah for themselves and to really grow in the area of Torah and to really grow in the area of Torah it's a very challenging need a very challenging characteristic and we're going to explore it together through the lens of one particular mitzvah and so I think I think you'll enjoy it I think it'll be looking at things from a little bit of a different angle so why don't we start I'm gonna share my screen to the source sheet as I always do and we're gonna go through these sources one at a time one by one I'm gonna zoom out a little bit just because I can't see on my own if I don't zoom in a little bit my own if I don't zoom in a little bit let me know if I could see so we need our reading glasses we're good to go see if you got the reading glasses on okay so this she would I entitled a Nevada Kabbalah Torah mmm excuse me we're gonna talk about the concept of humility and how it's necessary for receiving the Torah I began with with a pasukan McGee Latin roots because it is customary for us to read McGee about to boot excuse me on the holiday of Shavuot and we're going to use a Midrash that is

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