A lecture on the ancient Temple ritual of Pitum Haketoret and its spiritual benefits.
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What I want to talk about today very briefly is a very powerful thing that we do anyways everyday, but to explain a little bit more and a little bit more in depth and the importance and maybe that will bring some more excitement for the mitzvah that we're going to learn about today which is called pitum haketoret. The reason I chose to talk about it is because yesterday was parashat yitro. And parashat yitro one of the most important parashot in the torah we received the torah just the 10 commandments as the divrot. And the entire event around matan torah is very powerful because in the torah it doesn't say much. It just says moshe al shamayim, you know, barakim lightning sounds it doesn't give you too much information. But when you go to some midrashim zohar and other holy books it gives you some very fascinating information that happened in matan torah. It wasn't just some regular event. Therefore everything that has to do around matan torah is miraculous is divine is beyond what we can understand and and in that in that honor I want to lechazek and to talk about pitum haketoret. Why? Because I feel that many people don't really A know about it and B don't really read it and learn it the right way. And and and and people read pitum haketoret everyday, but it's always good to lechaded to learn a little bit more and when you know the benefit it helps you
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