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Parshat Ki Tisa: Half a Dollar of Fire-פרשה כי תשה

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Rabbi Aaron L Raskin

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  1. 0:05The Torah tells us that every man from the age of 20 and up should give…
  2. 2:10The hint is that nowadays when there is no holy temple, we are told that tfila…
  3. 4:43of God, from beneath the throne, he took out this half a dollar of fire, and…
  4. 7:22says, "This is what you should give." How does that answer the question? How does this…
  5. 9:56completing that person to make that person whole. That is the way you will have atonement…
  6. 12:29Fire is the opposite of nature. Everything in nature goes down. Gravity pulls things down. A…
  7. 14:33the world. As the Maggid of Mezritch explains, that if God would give forth his entire…
  8. 17:06is true poverty? A lack of knowledge. In only says the Gemara. Who is truly poor?…
  9. 19:41so. And you do this with fire, with passion, with love, with enjoyment, then you bring…
  10. 22:16the five lower levels of the soul, and to bring about kaparah, atonement, which also means…

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