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Kabbalah Meets Halacha The Leshem Yichud Controversy 04 07 2025

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Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

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Okay, I um I really was planning on talking about shaving today. So, not not spir related, but shaving in general. And we'll still get to it during the but last week we spoke about like the the call it the postgame of we spoke about the and the morning. And uh so this week I thought maybe we should just talk about the pregame of Sam and then we'll we'll move on to something else. Now is one of these mitzvah else. Now is one of these mitzvah where depending on where one finds one finds themselves it could look very different. You could be in yeshiva somewhere the whoever it will be we'll get up to say the day you'll be in a rubbish place or a place you might see something more dramatic. you'll be in a cabalistic place. You might even see something more dramatic than that. So sphere is one of these mitzvah that have like a a wide range in the presentation. So, I just wanted to to dig back a drop and uh maybe talk to dig back a drop and uh maybe talk about how we got to this two different uh uh interpretations of of the mitzvah of so now for just for background brings down the mitzvah of and it says that starting the second night of P we count and make a you count the day and the week and then You say the early place can bring down. Okay,

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  1. 0:04Okay, I um I really was planning on talking about shaving today. So, not not spir
  2. 2:41And uh when one does a mitzvah, he's engaging in and we say now when this
  3. 5:27over here in in the what he say >> for any mitzvah. Not just >> not
  4. 8:05in all mitzvah they understood what was going on in the and they built everything in
  5. 10:44and he wrapped them up in one bundle and confused them with because he changes the
  6. 13:48says you have to you have to say it out loud I'm doing this shame this
  7. 16:28eventually it caught on very popular um there's many other you know to this but I
  8. 19:01putting yourself in s going to the forest there's a certain amount of danger What did
  9. 21:38quickly jumps onto David's horse which he figured would be able to find its master he
  10. 24:12for for leisure I'm saying it says like saw it stalked it chased it you know

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