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5 Sharp Divrei Torah on Parshas Ki Seitzei

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein delivers five incisive Torah insights on Parshas Ki Seitzei.

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at m a r b i t z e i t o r a h dot com. Safer at and they will send you a free copy of the Birkas HaTzaddik. Also, please make sure you signed up and you committed yourself for this Chodesh Elul a soldier to live with her Yefas To'ar? Lo dibra Torah ela k'neged yetzer hara. Better to eat basar shchuta and not eat basar neveila. Says the grandfather of the Vilna Gaon, quoted in the safer Rosh Yosef in Maseches Kiddushin. What does it mean lo dibra Torah ela k'neged yetzer hara? The Gemara says in Sota that a woman, a wife, has two great mylise. First of all, she raises our children l'Torah. Number two, she saves us from sin. Megadloy boneno l'Torah, matziloy say son of Manashe. But if a fast tire, the Gamorah in Sanhedrin says, the child will be a ben sero myrah. So she's not megadel, megada boneno l'Torah. So therefore the time therefore Hazal say loy dibra Torah ela keneged yetz hara. Her only benefit now is she saves us from the yetz hara. A wife has two great benefits. She's megadel boneno l'Torah. And number two, she saves us from the yetz hara. But the via fast tire is not megadel boneno l'Torah because the child will be a ben sero myrah. Therefore her sole benefit is loy dibra Torah ela keneged yetz hara. Her only benefit is she saves us from the yetz hara. Then we move on. She cries for her father and her mother yarach yamim for a month of days. Rashi says that the Torah is letting us know that we're going you're going to hate her. You're going to hate her. Ha kasuv mevasrecha she soifcha listen oisa. The Torah is vouch safing you're going to hate her. It's brought in the Chida in his commentary to Tehillim Yosef Tehilais

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  3. 2:34Her only benefit now is she saves us from the yetz hara. A wife has two…
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