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Rabbi Shais Taub

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[music] So in honor of hatis when we celebrate the the holy books one of the things the rebi recommended is that we purchase new books and we study from those books and here we're going to talk about some of the books we have at the soulwards house and maybe it might give you some ideas about some uh purchases you want to make. We'll put some links below in the description so that you can actually get those books in the in an easy way. But we're just going to take you through books of Moses. Here's the humish. Kumsh means the five books of Moses that we have here in the Sward's house. I chose everything here. You know, we don't have a lot of books. So, we were very selective. Um, not just things that look attractive. Obviously, it should be aesthetically pleasing on the shelf. And there is a concept by the way of bias males that the Reb encouraged people to just have your home full of holy books. That's aside from studying from them which obviously is a virtue unto itself but just having them around. So we chose things that look nice. This is one of my things that look nice. This is one of my favorite versions of the Kish because this has in it and this was made by Kabad of California. This has commentary not just rashi which is the standard and when you're doing your we'll talk a little bit more later about learning every day but when you're doing it's it's helpful to have the rashi but in addition there's a commentary that's based on the teachings from the and my and that really brings everything to

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  1. 0:01[music] So in honor of hatis when we celebrate the the holy books one of the
  2. 2:36have two of them. This is the large size kitas from Kahos which is modeled on
  3. 5:42his class he would write his script would give his class on the radio and he
  4. 8:18The egress are letters that the Reb wrote to whom? To everyone. Anyone who wanted to
  5. 10:52Shabbaten, because not only does it have the Hebrew and the English of the classic text,
  6. 13:23the core of what we call the oral law. We know that when Hashem gave the
  7. 15:56alternatively you can study one chapter a day and then you'll finish the entire Mishna in
  8. 17:56it over again. So definitely this is a good time to don't wait until the jump
  9. 20:28so much more which was translating all of this basically into English. So like for instance
  10. 23:04the reb's mother I want to show you this from the reb's father. This is gems

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