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Cigarettes from Paris | Rabbi Moshe Aharon Friedman

2.1K views · Apr 26, 2026

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A Torah shiur on the topic of cigarettes and their implications.

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The story of the gear that wanted to know and sum up the whole Torah al regel achas and he was told mad aloch soni lechavroch al ta'avid. >> [music] >> But this can be read bederech remez mad aloch soni lechavroch what is detrimental [music] lechavroch to your connection to your chibah d'akodesh boruchu simply put loi sa'avid just [music] don't do it. Now that sums up the sor may rah. But I want to focus on the va'aseh tov. The Gemara says that by a child when you decide he's a godol not bar mitzvah decide he's a godol not bar mitzvah younger but old enough to do certain things the Gemara's loshon is tzaror v'tzrori egoiz v'noitli. He knows the difference between the rock the pebble which has no value and the egoiz which has something inside. But the truth is to be an adam godol all through life is about the tzaror v'tzrori to know what's just [music] the useless pebble and egoiz v'noitli and know what's important. And when you know what's important then you're a godol. And when you know you're a godol and you have that awareness then it's not even an

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  1. 0:06The story of the gear that wanted to know and sum up the whole Torah al…
  2. 0:37decide he's a godol not bar mitzvah younger but old enough to do certain things the…
  3. 1:07that awareness then it's not even an assuyan about the sor may rah. You know you're…
  4. 1:37Paris. Do me a favor in Paris there are very expensive cigarettes [music] that you could…
  5. 2:07rebbe. You remember that you have Hakadosh Baruchu on top of you. You remember [music] that…
  6. 2:37ripped you still yoitzeh the mitzvah of tzitzis. He said yeah you yoitzeh the mitzvah but…
  7. 3:07of that you want to connect and you don't want to do anything detrimental to your…

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