Rabbi Yehuda Yosefi: Strengthening Our Faith

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

Things you've never heard Dear Jews, Every day, >> Every day, >> Every day during Sukkot, we read the Torah, On the first day, How many bulls were there? 13. Every day it goes down. All together. 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, today we read eight, tomorrow we’ll read seven. The total is 70. 70 bulls corresponding to the nations of the world. Listen to something wonderful. I’m not talking about the commentary. People for 70 years, 80 years, have heard the Torah reading, And they never noticed That On the first day it is written, "And one goat as a sin offering." On the second day, "And one goat as a sin offering." On the third day, it doesn't say "goat," it says " and one sin offering goat." It doesn't say "goat,""And one sin offering goat." On the fourth day, it again says "and one goat as a sin offering," And on the fifth and sixth, listen closely: "And one sin offering goat." What is this? Heaven forbid, is the Torah a tabloid newspaper where the reporters write it one way once and another way next? What ? What is going on here? Ah, you can listen to the Torah for 80 years And never once feel The change. Once again: on the first, second, and fourth days, It is "a goat," On the third, fifth, sixth, and seventh days, it is "one sin offering goat," not "goat." What could it be? What is this? Just enjoy the question. Along comes the genius of geniuses, the Vilna Gaon, whose yahrzeit was yesterday, the 19th of Tishrei. He passed away in the Sukkah.

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1. 0:00Things you've never heard Dear Jews, Every day, >> Every day, >> Every day during Sukkot,…
2. 5:48Ishmael, how much will it be? 36, but it needs to be 35. So on the…
3. 12:08When, when did we leave Egypt? Passover . So should we have Sukkot on Passover? Why…
4. 17:40to be by His word, everything comes to be by His word, there is none besides…
5. 24:04into the air. The Gemara says, the Gemara says, when you shake, when you shake in…
6. 30:20want to show you just a custom, not a mitzvah, a custom. Whoever remembers, when the…
7. 35:59recite a blessing on food; she laughed at salt, salt, salt, became a pillar of salt.…
8. 42:05What are you? What...what happened to us? What happened to us? Do you know what Amen…
9. 47:41in repentance. He went to America, look at the result, it is for all eternity. But…
10. 53:48so he wasn't attacking, he says to me:" Excuse me, Rabbi, it's not the same. ""…

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