254 Chukat Exile Of The Giants 110716

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

sharim and they will hopefully complete or give you a better picture of this week's para y can you get me a humish please thank you okay so I'm going to start off the sh seeing as um the sh is in in our house um I'm going to tell you something which I said a few years ago on this week's para it's very relevant um especially with present company thank you on So in the gamarra there is uh an amora whose name was there is uh an amora whose name was Rabba. Yeah. It was a contemporary of Rav Ysef. Whenever Rabba used to give a shir to his students he used to start the sh with a joke [Music] something light something humorous. Why did he do that? Just launch into the sh. what's all this you joking and saying something light and just go straight to the Torah what was the idea so the the normal answer which we're given is he wanted to keep people's given is he wanted to keep people's attention when you start off with a joke you capture people and then you you sort of build on that but then I thought said look he could have done that with a story just tell a story it has to be a joke has to be something light how come so I asked this question to my children and none other than Yanni who's sitting over there we're talking five years ago he gave me two answers to this question. I thought I was going to share this with uh whoever's here and whoever is listening on anytime. Number one, he

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