Living with Light: Tefillin

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

So polite. Today we're going to be learning about the mitzvah of tofillin. And as I just mentioned a few moments ago, while only men wear to fillain and women don't wear tillin, but there's still a lot to learn from and about fillain. And um it's relevant because it first appears in next week's para at the end of para's bow. So first I just want to briefly describe what fillain are what and then describe what fillain are what and then we'll try to gain a deeper understanding of what they're about. So at the end of next week's parha as the Jewish people are leaving Egypt or preparing to leave Egypt the Torah commands us about the mitzvah of tollin and it's in it's the very end of the parha and it's in a series of other mitzvah that are being described over there and and he actually says the mitzvah twice the they're both says the mitzvah twice the they're both in the in parake the very end of precious bow and the first time parakeim chapter 13. Um, so it has a section that begins saying, "Hashem spoke to Moshe saying should sanctify the firstborns." And then a few verses later, it has the famous verse from the that we we discuss on night. You should tell your song on that day because of this the Lord did this for me of Egypt. And then we have the mitzvah and it shall be for a sign on your hand and a remembrance between your eyes in order that the Torah of Hashem should be in your mouth because with a strong hand, Hashem took you out of Egypt. It's a difficult verse

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1. 0:03So polite. Today we're going to be learning about the mitzvah of tofillin. And as I…
2. 5:40the mitzvah, so then the rain will stop, etc. And then it says you should in…
3. 11:18Rashi although we see it there but apparently they found in the Dead Sea Scrolls to…
4. 16:56if it's the other one, then I intend that one. Um, make one braha. You don't…
5. 23:05sheet the Ramban says it's bottom of page one of the source sheet it's a difficult…
6. 28:47um besides for the important message of Mitraim of the Exodus of Hashem redeeming us, we…
7. 34:36head. So you see four different organs functioning eyes, ears, mouth and nose. And so we…
8. 40:53remembrance because that is the dedication of our minds and our souls which is something that's…
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10. 52:14the koyaku represents the reward of this world and that a person could see while the…

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