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The Sin of Comparing Trees - Parsha Shlach - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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[Music] good evening tonight's class is dedicated in honor of re Schottenstein stay by his mom and dad and sister EDA David and Nina Schottenstein Mazel Tov may you enjoy many healthy happy and prosperous years with much Nahas so rabbi Weinberg is sitting in his office in his synagogue Beth tefillah when the telephone rings he picks up the telephone this is Jack Smith from the Internal Revenue Service the IRS do you know a man by the name Maurice Cohen yes I do rabbi Weinberg says is mr. Cohen a congregant in your synagogue yes he is rabbi Weinberg says the agent of the IRS continues is it true that he contributed to your synagogue $10,000 yes he will rabbi Weinberg responds tonight we explore a very enigmatic episode in the portion of shelah its enigmatic as we will see from all angles and we want to embark on a journey into the inner world of this character the wood gatherer in the portion of shelah explore it from a hollow hik cabbalistic Hasidic psychological spiritual and practical point of view let us explore the text inside it's at the conclusion of slack you can open up your curriculums on the bottom of the video there is a PDF which you can open up to read inside this is source number one a few verses from the end of shelah numbers chapter 15 Valley you Bonet Easter all by mid bar the Jewish people were in the desert vie him to ish micaceous eight symbiote my Shabbos they found a man gathering wood on the day of Shabbat by a key voice say

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