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Receiving the Torah - What if the Jews said No - Part II

Rabbi Chaim Mintz

Rabbi Chaim Mintz discusses the concept of the Jewish people receiving the Torah and what would have happened if they had refused.

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

so welcome everybody and a special welcome i got a big surprise that my granddaughter showed up tonight first time she came all the way from lakewood wow hope everybody enjoyed shivers and they had plenty of cheesecake and plenty of blintzes and plenty of spirituality and it's a good combination the good food and good torah and uh and uh god gave us a big portion of toggle of yeshua's filled us up shiva tahara with kedusha with holiness with purity with different people now after such a young like sure different people and the shaman became much more higher holy pure way up there now we have to use it to serve hashem more and more now that he made us so special with the holy holiday of us we are currently discussing with the holy spirit and we're discussing now the people listening just like we talked about all the time people talking lash and hard with the it's prohibited to speak russian horror prohibited to speak russian horror we're prohibited to hear rashan hara and certainly to believe that's really bad we can't even hear it to believe it is really bad and this is the prohibition goes on all the things that we're not allowed to say we're not not a belief we hear something about somebody he did this he did that she did that she did that gossip probably it's not true like most things probably it's not true like most things are not true people exaggerate people don't understand people judge without having in mind the person that they're judging and most of the time we get false information we trust people in the bad light others but judges under bad light and give other information to us including to say oh maybe you're a toddler but you know what your father

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  1. 0:00so welcome everybody and a special welcome i got a big surprise that my granddaughter showed
  2. 5:40imagine if we keep all these rules everybody would keep these rules what a great nation
  3. 11:48other citizens are going up the street staten island yeah that's we're starting from here up
  4. 18:08these troops and ideas god made the world in a world that we live in of
  5. 24:19anybody create something today it's go to the furniture what's the furniture go to the factory
  6. 30:46the whole world will turn into nothing why because the world has to have constant power
  7. 36:20we're in danger do you want us to go a place where we can't live we
  8. 43:25but the the house of david is the one that was designated to have the kings
  9. 49:37that the the creation of god did not come from something that was there before god
  10. 55:50our actions with our deeds and therefore we have to think and try to uh besides

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