How Jews Overcame Collective PTSD - Women's Bechukosei Class

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

gishmeichem ba'ito ma'isa venasati gishmeichem be'itam venasna ha'aretz yevulah ve'etz hasadeh yiten piryo If you follow the statutes, you observe my mitzvos and do them, so then as he continues, I will grant rains in their proper times, the earth will uh give its produce and the trees of the land will produce their fruits, etc. This section is followed by a section known as the tochacha or the warning that if the Jewish people fail to fulfill their role in the world fail to fulfill their role in the world as the ambassadors of the divine, they will become victims of um losses described in frightening detail in the And immediately following this section, known as the tochacha as the rebuke or the warning comes the next section, which is actually the fourth section Re'ee. And here a completely new subject is introduced. And it's known as the laws of erchin And it's known as the laws of erchin ayin reish chof yud nun or e r c h i n, erchin or erchin, which means evaluation. Erech means evaluation and evaluation. Erchin means evaluations in the plural. These laws basically specify how a person might, if they donate their own value or another human being's value to the sanctuary to the Mishkan to the the sanctuary to the Mishkan to the to the Tabernacle in the desert and then later would be of course to the base of miktash to the holy temple. But if somebody says I want to donate my value to the base of miktash. How do you estimate that value? That's exactly the subject of these laws of erkin. So the Torah specifies the exact sum one must contribute if he or she makes such a pledge. The sum is not based on a person's strength, physical prowess, or even

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