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Parashat Bamidbar - Beware of bad neighbours... - Rabbi Alon Anava

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Rabbi Alon Anava

Parashat Bamidbar - Beware of bad neighbours... - Rabbi Alon Anava

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[Music] we are in Photoshop in Val we're starting a new homage a new period like I mentioned before we are in Bamidbar America as poor as there is still a week back whenever the less we're starting a whole new kamesh and this is a very important book from all the books because we know that most of the Torah was set in the desert and okay better sheet is already just his historical part before that the beginning of a smut is Egypt that after we lived in Egypt most of the Torah is in the desert and we don't know much of what was going on in the desert and in the commercial bit of Bamidbar then we learn what was going on in the desert where did they live how did they live who did what can you imagine sometimes going into history how did they leave five hundred years ago in Spain how did they leave a thousand years ago in whatever Iraq can you imagine if we had some time machine to go and see how they lived there would be very very interesting but nevertheless in this week's Pasha there's one very profound message that I at least find that is not only so practical but I see it so obvious in front of my eyes and I think that everybody needs to not only listen to the to the biblical explanation of what we're going to do but rather take note how's that affecting me because I see that most people if they pay attention they'll see that they're in that group and which is not good and - until explain more what I'm talking about there was a Great Sage robe Yohanan Ben Zakai he once asked a group of his students what do you think is the most important

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  1. 0:00[Music] we are in Photoshop in Val we're starting a new homage a new period like
  2. 6:27the time that Miriam was talking behind the back about Moshe she got punished you with
  3. 13:03lives here maybe the neighborhood is not appropriate for me I remember that after we had
  4. 19:28and say wait a minute this is not fair the Midrash says that about a oval
  5. 26:07days ago a car exploded in the middle of the street and three people bike paths
  6. 32:29this custom but in the olden days wherever was called up to the Torah had to
  7. 39:01helped you right away because this sentence is echoing in my mind maybe there's a God
  8. 45:27Toshio please take me please thank me and Asham answered his parent he died on the
  9. 52:00how long his beard is how black his hat is the person is not honest or
  10. 58:31lie the dishonest they're fake and so forth I don't want to be next year nothing

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