Zera Shimshon Eikev #5a 5786 - Rabbi Zvi Kahn

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

[music] >> Good evening. We are in the Zera Shimshon on Parshas Eikev. We're going to do Drush Hey, number five. Uh before we begin, we're going to take a look at one possuk from the parsha. This is perek yud, possuk yud bais in Parshas Eikev, of course. Ve'atah Yisrael, and now Yisrael, mah Hashem Elokecha sho'el me'imach? What is it after all that Hashem asks from you? Ki im lo yirah es Hashem Elokecha, only to fear Hashem your God, laleches bechol derachecha, to go in all of His ways, ule'ahavah oso, and to love Him. Ule'avod es Hashem Elokecha, and to serve Hashem your God bechol levavcha uvchol nafshcha. With all of your heart and with all of your soul. That's it. That's all. It's simple. That's all that Hashem asks of us, Moshe Rabbeinu says. And of course, the Zera Shimshon will deal with uh what the question that that comes from Chazal in the Gemara, originally in the Torah Shebaal Peh. What What does it mean that's all? That's an all That's a lot. That's very hard. What does it mean is that this is all that Hashem asks from us? Uh but before that, uh the the overall uh theme of this piece, and it's a very long piece. We're only going to do uh the first part, but the overall theme of this piece is uh kind of comparing and contrasting two things. One is Torah

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1. 0:09[music] >> Good evening. We are in the Zera Shimshon on Parshas Eikev. We're going to…
2. 3:51a house, the high torah niquira sha'ar and the study of torah is referred to as…
3. 7:37Yira Shamayim, a person has to dedicate himself, has to consecrate himself the atzmo told you…
4. 11:28it, then then they own it, because they developed it on their own. And that's why…
5. 15:15It's as if you're asking him for something that he would never have. So, the moshel,…
6. 19:24they're going to have to accept upon themselves against their will. And now that we understand…
7. 23:10attribute for people to develop and to work on and that's a very important to Hashem.…
8. 26:51kan li Yisrael, so too here vis-a-vis the Jewish people even though fear of Hashem is…
9. 30:30that depends. If the fruit on the branches is nowhere near falling off, it's nowhere it's…
10. 34:14as it is, it's the opening to the house. The house is yiras shamayim. Ke uh…

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