Parshat Ki Teitzei with Reb Chaim Kramer

What’s said in this shiur

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

Shalom Aleichem. Welcome to the weekly Parshah class of BRI, Ki Seitzei. This week is Ki Seitzei. Reb Noson, in one of his letters, writes "Ki Seitzei l'Uman" - when you go out of your comfort zone and you go to Uman. Because that's where we have to end up - Rosh Hashanah. We have to try and get there. Okay, so Parshas Ki Seitzei is a power-packed Parshah, like they all are, but why? Because there’s a lot of mitzvahs that are written in Parshas Ki Seitzei. By the way, if I’m not mistaken, it has the most mitzvahs of all the Parshas in the Torah. It just keeps on moving from mitzvah to mitzvah to mitzvah to mitzvah, and so on, right? It talks about if you go out to battle, and you give in to the yetzer hara. It talks about children, about inheritance. It talks about children who rebel against their parents. It talks about people who deserve the death penalty. It talks about people - men shouldn’t wear women’s clothes, and women shouldn’t wear men’s clothes. It talks about tzitzis. It talks about kilayim. It talks about somebody who, God forbid, rapes a girl, married or otherwise. It gives different laws. Laws of conversion - Amon and Moav - they’re forbidden to come into the nation of Israel because of their cruelties. It talks of a number of other laws. If you collect a harvest from your fields and you forget something, leave it forgotten for the poor people - charity.

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1. 0:03Shalom Aleichem. Welcome to the weekly Parshah class of BRI, Ki Seitzei. This week is Ki…
2. 1:21inheritance. It talks about children who rebel against their parents. It talks about people who deserve…
3. 3:05all these mitzvahs? The Torah was given at Sinai in Shemos, then you have Vayikra, Bamidbar…
4. 4:08learn. And of course, every year we read the Parshah, every year we study the laws…
5. 5:51them a lot of Torah and a lot of mitzvahs. Okay. Reb Noson asks, if you…
6. 7:01we could study Torah. What about those who don’t have the time to study? What about…
7. 8:43other words, there’s always somewhere, somehow - if it’s agriculture, if it’s construction, whatever the field…
8. 9:46to the end of the Parshah where we read about destroying Amalek. Amalek represents all the…
9. 11:24of elitists - nice people, but elitists. One woman tells me everything is good. Everything. So…
10. 12:33at the letters in English - they spell Kamala. Kamala Harris, who is running to be…

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