Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Behar-bechukotai (Video 229)

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

Good evening. It's still a half an hour until Lag Baomer, so I can refer to it as Lag Baomer because if already it would >> [laughter] >> excuse me, be nightfall, then I would be yoitze the counting of the Sefirah. I couldn't say the date. But since at this point you cannot be yoitze, still before shkiah, >> [snorts] >> [snorts] >> so >> [clears throat] >> I want to open with the fact that the Zohar Hakadosh says that we know that many kadmonim bring and there are many chassidishe shtieblach here in Williamsburg, all over. Some chassidim do, some chassidim don't, say Tachanun this week because of Hod. Now, Hod is Now, Hod is as we know, of Chessed is Avraham, Gevurah is Yitzchak, Tiferes is Yaakov, Netzach is Moshe Rabbeinu, and Hod is Aharon HaCohen. Tonight is Hod ShebeHod, like the highest level and the deepest touch to the realm of Hod is tonight, Hod ShebeHod. is tonight, Hod ShebeHod. Why is it so special? So, >> [snorts] >> of course we know that the 24,000 talmidim stopped dying when it came to Lag Baomer that they had gone through 32 days of terrible destruction. So many talmidim had died. And now they finished. There was no more dying. In one split second, it came into hotzeva'od. Because Aharon HaCohen represented subjugation that he professed and promoted that people should always give in. Because how do you bring shalom to two people who are fighting? Whether it's a husband and wife or it's children or it's a neighbor. How do you bring Somebody has to back off

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1. 0:00Good evening. It's still a half an hour until Lag Baomer, so I can refer to…
2. 4:46because the Zohar Kadosh says that this week, from Pesach Sheini, till the of hold, that…
3. 9:53Vioshev, that I'm going to do the Aveira, but I'm going to do Chuva to wipe…
4. 15:04>> and something from Bechukosai, and I'm going to start with the vort from Bechukosai. The…
5. 20:21then you're going to get the good. But by duchaning, there's no condition. And since duchaning,…
6. 25:28That girl grew up, she was 12 years old and she never felt there was anything…
7. 30:07Three steps back >> [clears throat] >> and then he concludes shalom who shalom the Israel…
8. 35:16what would it cost for us to give their profit for the year? Profit is $100,000…
9. 40:25come into a fresh start, a fresh new year, a second chance, so to speak. Then…
10. 45:32my affairs because everybody else is losing their free labor, too. But that is the teva…

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