Shavuos : Why Hashem Offered the Torah To The Nations of the World

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

How much time should a person allocate to each subject? Chumash, Mishnah, Gemara, Iyun, Bekiut, Kabbalah, Machshavah, Mussar, different Sefarim. Sifrei Chassidus. What What is the right diet when it comes to Talmud Torah? But I just want to share with you now a brief thought. Want to thank my friend Gabi Dalfen for sharing this with me from the Kedushas Levi. And Kedushas Levi in his Drush for Shavuot, he talks about the idea that Hakadosh Baruch Hu offered the Torah to the nations of the world, and then he brought it to Klal Yisrael. Which is very interesting. Why would God offer the Torah to the nations of the world? Did he really offer the the Torah to the nations of the world? We once learned in the Kli Yakar that God never offered it to them. He said it to us in a Nusach that perhaps could have been applicable to them. But the Kedushas Levi says, I'll read to you inside, that Chazal say that Hakadosh Baruch Hu he took the Torah to each nation in every language, and he asked Eisav, and Eisav said, "No. What does it say in it?" And Hashem says, "It says don't murder." No, Eisav said, "No thanks. What are we supposed to do all day?" And Yishmael said, "It says uh Hashem told Yishmael, "It says Lo Sinof." Yishmael says, "So, what are we supposed to do?"

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1. 0:31How much time should a person allocate to each subject? Chumash, Mishnah, Gemara, Iyun, Bekiut, Kabbalah,…
2. 2:03So, Reb Levi Yitzchak wants to know why, in fact, did God offer the Torah to…
3. 3:36So, therefore, God offered the Torah to nations of the world. So, Eisav says, "What does…
4. 5:07that when two forces interact, the force of greater Kedushah can suck out the spark of…
5. 6:43And um this was a great favor. V'Nital Yisrael Atzmo V'Zeh Kosev B'Kitzur Ari. This is…
6. 8:16in? No, it will be okay over here. Right? Anyway, so uh why is that phenomenon?…
7. 9:50You say, "What do you mean?" Uh the Reb Levi Yitzchak says, the Mashal is, you…
8. 11:2670 nations. So, by offering the Torah to the nations of the world, if there would…
9. 12:58it may only be an issue for a Jew, but not for them. The bottom line…
10. 14:31as the Kuzari writes, there five categories of matter. There's doimem, there's tzomeach, there's chai, there's…

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