Parashat Shemot 5781: “Shovavim” - Humility

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The opening of this shiur, in Chacham Baruch Ben-Haim ztl’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

my dear friends we are now before shabbat and we are going to read in this coming shabbat in that means beginning the second book of the torah that is the exodus sefer shemot also it is important to mention that we have begun this week a very special time that is known as shavavim shobhavim of course is written for anybody who knows a little bit of hebrew written sheen you'd meme of course in hebrew in modern hebrew means a person who is not very serious right so it means also that this is the time to become more serious as i am going to explain further immediately after saying a few words about the parasha this is a very important uh time known as the shavavim why do we call it shavavim the shin goes for the parasha of shemot this coming shabbat i mean this week and then next week we'll bring with it the parashat era which begins with vav the verve of shavavim and then beth of shavavim goes for the parasha of bo in three weeks and then the second bit of shavavim goes for bishop in in the coming fourth week and the nude of him is yitro right the fifth week and then the final meme the last meme of shauvadim goes for mishpatin that's the sixth week the custom is to add two more weeks teruma and tetsavet taftaf te roma tezave so what is so special about this time this is a time in which we are given according to the kabbalist and according to many sages that's this is a very important time in which we have to try to enhance our ways our traits of character and we shall talk about this and give you more instructions as much as we can take regarding this great

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1. 0:02my dear friends we are now before shabbat and we are going to read in this…
2. 2:46time that we call shovavim having to do with that i will mention a certain subject…
3. 5:54he that he died we all know the story that happened with the brothers of yosef…
4. 8:31that his br that his father is no more maybe now he will take revenge over…
5. 11:36to bring down the importance that you feel in your heart to humble your heart and…
6. 14:48at the time that he was related somehow so he went to see according to the…
7. 17:28but in fact in those days of the shovavim the most important thing according to the…
8. 20:43had to run away after he killed the egyptian and after it was known so he…
9. 23:21god speaks to you that you will feel uh grandiose you will feel higher than anyone…
10. 26:32our sages require especially in this generation but one has to try at least to do…

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