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Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit discusses the mitzvot of Parshat Mishpatim and the concept of kedusha (holiness).
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[Music] the what I hope to give you yet again like we did last week in pares yro is a word for the shabas table right just think of how many people around the world are studying the Torah portion on a weekly basis and you'll get a word for the table but the km's slice of it is I hope to give you a mitzvah for Life a word for the table and a mitzvah for life now we're using the book as we said EV and we're getting a servant of the king of kings view of the Torah portion and one of the features I thought would be fascinating for you to know is how many mitzvas are delineated in the pares yro where the Ten Commandments came had 78 Mitzvah now we come to par Mish ready for this I hope you're sitting down 154 Mitzvah are contained in this paraa okay let's so it's not to overwhelm you we're going to do one okay we're going to get a word for the shabas table on the on this verse and then we'll see a mitzvah for life from the very same verse let's get started so so I'm going to show you the PK in the Torah and maybe I'll just tell you what um the key word here it it's a word that in Translation is recognized around the world ever since the Torah came out and that word is called Holiness in in English holy in Torah it's called kados kadus Kush that's the Hebrew word for what is translated is Holy what we need to know is what does holy mean and what difference does it make okay we're going to see both let's go so I want to show you the source in the
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- 0:05[Music] the what I hope to give you yet again like we did last week in…
- 3:57so it's in chapter 2 2 PK 30 and it says like thises this is going…
- 7:38he used the talmud and built the hospital that's still standing okay I'm just trying to…
- 11:53here's the surprise okay KES means AEM means here ready here's how we're going to translate…
- 15:47start the line and you can finish it uh the poet was Elizabeth Barrett Browning and…
- 20:20holy it's not just a just a promise from the Creator that he considers holy and…
- 23:58is but there is they are um exalted beings and they are not physical at all…
- 27:54Infuse our beings with Holiness that's what we're going to describe right now so the truth…
- 32:52just say no to sins one Mitzvah and yes to mitus just say no to non-…
- 36:47Etc right and yes to Torah so whenever you do a Mitzvah and you avoid doing…
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