The man who saved a Billion lives — Parshas Behaaloscha

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

Have you heard about the garlic diet? Yeah, the garlic diet. After every meal you eat a bunch of garlic and uh you don't actually lose any weight, but from a distance your friends all think you look thinner. This week's parsha parshas Balak we discuss the miraculous superfood, the manna, the bread from heaven that used to fall and nourish the Jewish people in the desert for 40 years. And it was a wonderful food, perfect nutrition, no waste, and could taste like anything you wanted and they were complaining about it. What were they complaining about? So here's the thing. It could taste like anything you wanted except with a few exclusions in the terms and conditions. This is what we read this week. The Jewish people are complaining and they're recalling, they're remembering that back in Egypt what did we used to eat? Es achshuvim ve es avatiachim ve es chatziv ve es batzalim ve es shumin. We We used to eat the cucumber and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic. Why were they mentioning these foods? So Rashi comments and he says Amar Rabbi Shimon the Tanna Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai said and this is Rashi quoting uh Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's opinion from the Sifrei. Why did the manna taste like or could taste like all the flavors in the world with the exclusion of these few items? He says mibnei shem kashim leminikois, they are harsh, they are difficult on

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1. 0:01Have you heard about the garlic diet? Yeah, the garlic diet. After every meal you eat…
2. 1:34nursing mothers. Like we say omerim leisha, we say to a woman al taichli shum u'batzal…
3. 3:38Shimon bar Yochai? Rashi is always quoting Chazal. He's always quoting our sages, but he doesn't…
4. 5:40Second of all, um why does Rashi mention specifically this is a teaching from Rabbi Shimon…
5. 7:42and it's not enough nutrition. The math doesn't add up. You don't have enough land to…
6. 9:43And uh world crisis averted. The famine that was supposed to take a billion lives ended…
7. 11:15Did you save a billion people?" He would have to tell you, "Yeah, I saved a…
8. 13:19and one woman showed up. One woman showed up. You know, I I want to tell…
9. 15:24Wieviel mal Tell me, how many mothers did Moses have? More than one? Or just one?…
10. 17:29not have the garlic and the onion? Why? Cuz it's just going to affect a few…

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