A Stubborn Nation | Rabbi Moshe Wilhelm

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The opening of this shiur, in Vayimaen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[music] >> Only 40 short days after the Yidden received the Torah on Shavuos be Tammuz, while Moshe was still in Shamayim, the Yidden did a terrible aveira, the Egel Hazahav. "Lech raid", the Ribono shel Olam says to Moshe Rabbeinu, "Your nation has sinned. They made an Egel, danced to it, and shechted to it." And then the Ribono shel Olam continues and says, "Re'eisi es ha'am hazeh, I saw this nation. Heinei [music] am kashei oref hu, it's a stubborn nation, a stiff-necked nation." stiff-necked nation." And the Ribono shel Olam continues, "Ve'ata hanichali, and now leave go of me. Leave me be and I will destroy them." Rashi brings down from the Gemara that the words "hanichali" were really a hint to Moshe Rabbeinu that the time was ripe for him to start defending them. Mashal l'ma davar daymeh, says the Gemara, where there's a king, he has a friend sitting next to him, and he's there about to punish his son, and he turns to his friend and he says, "Don't stop me. Don't stop me. I need to punish my son." What he's really telling the friend is that you have the koach to stop me. You

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1. 0:04[music] >> Only 40 short days after the Yidden received the Torah on Shavuos be Tammuz,…
2. 0:35stiff-necked nation." And the Ribono shel Olam continues, "Ve'ata hanichali, and now leave go of me.…
3. 1:05that you have the koach to stop me. You have the koach, the power, to make…
4. 1:35ve'hinei am kashei oref hu, I saw this nation", past [music] tense. Why is the Ribono…
5. 2:05this meter of being stubborn of being an amcha shiyoyef. Yes, I gave them this meter…
6. 2:35that will have to write the Hiligus while being imprisoned in the castles of the Crusaders.…
7. 3:05We are constantly being faced with challenges and they get harder every single day. But Hashem…

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