Would You Rather be Rich or go to Heaven? — Parshas Kedoshim

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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.

there's a guy was a bungalow up staked in the Catskills and every Friday he drives up for the weekend he always sees on the side of the road this farmer with the sciences fresh tomatoes so one time he's driving up he has a little bit extra time he pulls over and he asks the farmer how much for a tomato so the farmer says it depends he says okay let me look he goes over to the vine he sees a nice big red plum tomato he says how much is this one he says that one that'll be five bucks says five bucks so it looks at the vine he sees a tiny it looks at the vine he sees a tiny little scrawny little green one just the baby it's not close to ripe and tiny little green tomato he says how much is that one is that one I don't fifty cents guy says perfect I'll come back at the end of the summer and pick it up in this week's parsha harshest condition we have 51 mitzvahs thirteen hours of Commandments and 38 negative according to the safe version and one of those mitzvahs is a mitzvah Kippur law which has to do with the Kippur law which has to do with the fruit of a fruit-bearing tree being prohibited for the first three years first three seasons we read the piece of Vol audits when you enter the land the item code it's Michael and you plant a fruit bearing tree but altom or law says period shalosh on a mule ahem available a on the fruit should be held off or blocked off from you that's what Orla actually means for three years it shall not be eaten by shauna hut of yes and

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2. 2:07just eat it regular the hoist of lehem plus a and the purpose of this mitzvah…
3. 4:46speak of the godly spark within it something that's neutral it's not holy it's not designated…
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5. 9:51year method oh boy but even according to the Rome ah was more lenient about the…
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7. 15:01day-to-day mundane things and see that that's from Russia in other words that our connection to…
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