My First Paycheck - Parshas Ki Savo

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

Preciously cool and preciously summer, this week's parashah for a few minutes I want to study bikurim. I want to start that bikurim is a different kind of mitzvah. First, let me say what the mitzvah is. The Zion minam, the seven species that are Israel is praised. It's a land that produces these things, olives, remind, pomegranates, Israel has special things. pomegranates, Israel has special things. The wheat, Israel is praised that it has seven species that it produces. And a farmer goes to the field, he ties a red string around the first thing that grows, and he brings it to the base hamikdash is the mitzvah of bikurim. Now, bikurim is singled out as a unique mitzvah. Every mitzvah is precious, we have 613, we have a lot of mitzvahs. There's a few unique things about There's a few unique things about bikurim that are very singled out. One unique thing about bikurim is when a somebody we do a lot of mitzvahs, we put on tzitzit every day, we put on fillin every day, we sit in the sukkah, we shake a lulav, we have a lot, we blow a shofar. By the mitzvah of bikurim, we tell our whole story. Aram me and Avi, we go back. There's something about this mitzvah that's more fundamental than most mitzvahs. We tell the story of our people when we bring

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2. 3:05There's something about Bikkurim that seems to be remarkably fundamental, to the point that the midrash…
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5. 13:53enough from my dad to say that bikurim is a huge mitzvah. Perhaps the mitzvah that…
6. 17:29hard. The farmers first stuff is nuts. And the farmer takes the first things and he…
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10. 31:55relationship and connection. That's what gratitude does to people who are present to the gifts they're…

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