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Orthodox JEWISH Rabbi EXPOSES Origins of the TALMUD

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Rabbi Moshe Chaim Katz

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begin with the para the par you're standing today all of you before God your God your heads the leaders of tribes the elders and your police officers every single member of the Jewish every single member of the Jewish nation. Next verse, your children, the women and the converts of that are in your camp from the wood choppers until the water carriers that you shall now pass. He shall pass into the covenant of God and into his impreation that God is establishing for you today. Why? That today that I could make you a people. I want to establish you to be a people today that God says I will be your God like I swore to then the Torah says and not with you alone meaning not only you that are standing here Today am I making this covenant but rather I'm making it for those that are standing here today and also for those that are not standing here today i.e. You and I, the children of Yakov, I'm making this covenant with you. Both the ones that are standing with me today and also the ones that are not standing with me today, which means God is making a covenant with us >> on this day. So what day was this? So the Talmud, my friends, the great gumar the Talmud, my friends, the great gumar teaches us that this day, what is this day? This day was rash shana. You're all standing here today. You're standing here today. This day, the day of rash. The day of rash. Now, what are the origins of the Talmud? >> Mount S. >> Mount S. The origins of the Talmud, my dear friends, are at Mount Sai. So, let's go back to that

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  1. 0:00begin with the para the par you're standing today all of you before God your God
  2. 3:38they came from they came into Sinaiar and they encamped in the bidar and they encamped
  3. 7:45And you could read these words yourself. And anybody who still does not know Hebrew, I
  4. 11:56holy nation to be a holy nation and therefore I'm entrusting you to become a holy
  5. 16:02more of our body than we are as soul. So wash away that external identification. Get
  6. 20:13he get his information from? And then ask him where he where did he get his
  7. 23:46don't do that then we are really at fault. We are really at fault. And we're
  8. 27:50that minister. Does the king still put the weight of his office behind protecting him? No.
  9. 32:00There's so much based on Torah values. He was a man of the book and he
  10. 36:10highly suggest everybody who loves Isaiah 53, it's the same Isaiah that is throughout the entire

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