Emor - Excuse Me Where is the Handicap Spot?

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

[Music] the Jewish religion Prides itself in being exceptionally caring for the underprivileged and weak groups within our society and the tah tells us time and time again to be kind to the Widow and the orphan and the blind the tah instructs us to visit the sick and to give charity to the poor the Tyra speaks at length about treating a convert with at length about treating a convert with love and respect so it seems rather odd that when it comes to the service within the B mikdash the Tyra takes an unusually elitist stance the Tyra strongly forbids those who have physical defects to play any sort of role in the B mikdash anyone lame or blind was not allowed to serve in the B mikdash anyone unusually tall or unusually short was likewise banned from serving people with broken legs people with broken arms hunchbacks and dwarfs were all nixed the hunchbacks and dwarfs were all nixed the obvious question is why is this wouldn't Hashem want us to be kind and caring and go out of our way to hire such people the modern world's attitude towards handicapped individuals with its increased social services and designated parking spots and priority airplane boarding makes the tyus stance seems so outdated and insensitive why when it comes to filling positions in the basa mikash does the T seem to deviate from its regular loving and accepting mode of

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1. 0:00[Music] the Jewish religion Prides itself in being exceptionally caring for the underprivileged and weak groups…
2. 0:31at length about treating a convert with love and respect so it seems rather odd that…
3. 1:35its regular loving and accepting mode of operation so the sa offers the following very powerful…
4. 2:38particular in who serves as the represent as the representatives in the B mikdash the T…
5. 3:39look like but the psychological makeup of humans is such that man's perception creates his reality…
6. 4:40commitment the beginning of the para discusses the Kim's prohibition of contact with a dead body…
7. 5:11slip in and teach us about why pick a Mitzvah that is applicable to less than…
8. 6:11children we tell them what an unbelievable opportunity it is to keep them they're not Commandments…
9. 7:11asked do their parents dance around the shabas table do their parents' faces shine when they…
10. 8:16children evidence that what the parents are offering is better otherwise why would those children give…

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