Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses the methodology of Torah learning.
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and what was the conclusion we reached the whole concept of shema right here does mommy listen uh in the sense of he you know listen or doesn't mean understand and seems to be that's what told then when you analyze the why would shema be in the form of a commandment because fundamentally is a belief statement so why would you have to say the belief statement is a uh here to say the belief statement is a uh here you know so we talked about that okay then we have the next aloha oh so the main idea here which is always the important idea what's the centralized what's the major idea of this i this aloha you recall one don't know what that was um audibility that's it bingo but you know what sir you don't take credit for that word you it was your word i know it's so what's your name word i know it's so what's your name again sherman that's because he's humble he's very homeboy because anyone in the dictionary i can't take credit for that's true no it's not the words they have to build applications that word to this that's the anyway so the concept of vulnerability see once the audibility immediately you recall well does she might have to be audible or not you know that's why it's very important always to look for the key word see the mishna is a central idea but a see the mishna is a central idea but a halacha really has a key word where does it fit it's really the area of allah okay then we have carl volloy dig degrees yourself so again we have them uploaded
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- 0:24and what was the conclusion we reached the whole concept of shema right here does mommy…
- 6:38the definition of principle simply means an underlying idea you can see so like so what…
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- 19:18i'll pronounce maybe but enunciate that because a different accent could be a different pronunciation yeah…
- 25:38it doesn't care yeah so in here he's yota he's mako no each letter has to…
- 32:12with the same principle of why leyotso which means that it's jose two different cases one…
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