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

This blessing, the second blessing of the begins with my favorite word in the heart of Judaism. Now, the one thing that I struggle with in the shre is that the first braha we're not speaking to God. Remember I told you before that you have to know when you're speaking about God and when you're speaking to God. About God to God. So if you look at the first God to God. So if you look at the first obviously it starts that's but then it says saying all the stuff he does. We're not directly speaking to God in the first and that always bothers me a little bit. I'm like I want this to be a intimate connection to God. But the reason is because we have to start with a sense of awe and reverence and distance like okay hold up let's just kind of get in the game but then the second braha bam straight in with that I second braha bam straight in with that I think we made up for it at that point we're like now let's go straight in now you actually have to feel that we said before you have to feel the difference of when you're speaking about God and when you're speaking to God few examples first of benching we're speaking about God Second, we're speaking to God. Third one, we're speaking to God. Fourth one, we're speaking about God. You have to know that and feel that. That's got to be a real actual that. That's got to be a real actual experiential shift in consciousness. So, we're shifting into the second. You are mighty. And then it says you you revive the dead with mercy and you support the fallen and you heal the sick and you release the that's not gavor. You are a gibbor. You're a warrior. You smash mountains and you do

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