Parshat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim with Reb Chaim Kramer

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Shalom Aleichem. Welcome to the Breslov Parshah. This week is also a double Parshah, called Acharei Mos and Kedoshim. They're very similar, and they're very, very different. Acharei Mos begins with the service of Yom Kippur in the Temple. Then it has some laws about idolatry and the slaughtering - bringing sacrifices. The end of the Parshah speaks about the forbidden relationships: father and daughter, brother and sister, and so on and so forth. Parshas Kedoshim is one of the most power-packed Parshiyos in the Torah, of amount of mitzvos. It goes from sentence to sentence practically. The first part of the Parshah speaks about a whole bunch of different laws, seemingly not connected one to the other. The end of the Parshah also repeats a lot of the forbidden relationships that are mentioned at the end of Acharei Mos - and punishments for them, and so on and so forth. These are the two Parshas that we have. Let's begin with the service of Yom Kippur. We're coming off Tazria and Metzora - very terrible illnesses and afflictions that come to people, which we did learn that there can be forgiveness for. There can be rectification. Yom Kippur is very special. Yom Kippur tells us no matter what we did, no matter what went wrong, we have an opportunity - one day a year - to effect forgiveness - everything we did wrong. That, by the way, does not include any slighting of a person's ego - of another person's ego - nor does it include theft or dishonesty and stuff like that, because in those sins, a person has

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1. 0:03Shalom Aleichem. Welcome to the Breslov Parshah. This week is also a double Parshah, called Acharei…
2. 1:48Kippur. We're coming off Tazria and Metzora - very terrible illnesses and afflictions that come to…
3. 3:27a person does teshuvah? If he does teshuvah from fear of HaShem, or if he does…
4. 5:13us. The Gemara tells us that someone who does teshuvah from yirah - from fear of…
5. 7:38do teshuvah? It was extreme. I mean, any teshuvah is extreme. I lived this, I did…
6. 9:22the sins that he did. So those sins are what led him to do teshuvah. And…
7. 11:07explains - the land of the Canaanites, they're even worse than the Egyptians! Their customs, their…
8. 13:22of all forbidden relationships. You cannot live with an aunt. You cannot live with a cousin…
9. 15:07a type of illicit relationships. But that's what broke down every society. That's what's happening now,…
10. 16:52evils of the world. Because there's a tremendous amount of evil that's spreading - and keeps…

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