Like a Lion | Rabbi Eytan Feiner

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

Shalom u’Vracha, the incredibly amazing Vayimaen listeners. Let's open up a Shulchan Aruch at the beginning of Orach Chaim. The very first statement, the opening remarks of R’ Yosef Karo, We have to strengthen ourselves like the lion, to get up in the morning and to do the Ratzon Hashem. Now, the Beis Yosef, the Mechaber, he’s based on the Tur. Now, when the Tur states the same idea, he's quoting directly from Yehuda ben Teima, at the end of the fifth Perek of Pirkei Avos. And Yehuda ben Teima doesn't just tell us that we should be a גיבור כארי. He has a process. at the end of the fifth Perek of Pirkei Avos, So it's a four-step process. The last one is גיבור כארי. And yet, the Mechaber, how does he open up the Shulchan Aruch? Get up in the morning like the ארי, like the lion, the king of the jungle. So מוריי ורבותיי, just to share with you a small הארה. I was in a science museum in Baltimore, years ago, and it was there that I saw that phenomenon for the first time in my life. And astounded and surprised I was, indeed.

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1. 0:06Shalom u’Vracha, the incredibly amazing Vayimaen listeners. Let's open up a Shulchan Aruch at the beginning…
2. 0:37at the end of the fifth Perek of Pirkei Avos, So it's a four-step process. The…
3. 1:07And that is that the lion, yes, the king of the jungle, sleeps between 20 and…
4. 1:38But when a geshmake-smelling, -looking deer, gazelle, antelope or zebra comes by and he's hungry, he…
5. 2:08And go on and run like the deer. But you know, the עיקר, the primary one,…
6. 2:38we open up a Shulchan Aruch: יתגבר כארי. The ultimate Gevura is איזהו גיבור? הכובש את…
7. 3:09if I have reason enough to fight this battle and you bet, every single time, we…

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