Parsha Review Podcast: Bereishis with Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe @torchweb

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

thank you welcome everybody to the Parsha review we're attempting to do a weekly partial review every week where we can get a summary of each partial concise clear so we know what happens in every Torah portion so this week's partial is the first week of the Torah we're just going back one week because we missed last week departure of voracious it's the first partial of the Torah there are 146 partial of the Torah there are 146 verses 1930 words 7235 letters why is it important for us to know how many letters how many words and how many verses that is because the Torah which is a Godly document given by Hashem through the hand of Moshe where everything was transcribed not an extra letter was added by Moshe not a letter was removed by Russia every single letter exactly as God dictated was letter exactly as God dictated was written in the Torah there is nothing extra there is nothing missing whatever wisdom there is in the world you can find it in the Torah anything that's not in the Torah you just haven't looked well enough it's all there in fact the introduction that our sages say to the entire creation of the world was the Torah the Torah is the blueprint before a builder builds a house he needs to have a blueprint to know where the beams go where the pipes go where the electrical wires go you need to know where everything goes Hashem looked at

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1. 0:02thank you welcome everybody to the Parsha review we're attempting to do a weekly partial review…
2. 5:46you think of the the generation of the flood which we're going to talk about next…
3. 11:56I'll give you one very very insignificant example but just so that you understand this concept…
4. 18:05the world both physical and spiritual they enter the world and together pain of childbirth he…
5. 24:13sometimes we take things for granted sometimes we don't realize how good we have it until…
6. 30:24interests them what intrigues them whether it be uh you know any author that you can…
7. 36:37because at a rainbow there's no specific point where you can point at the rainbow and…
8. 42:46see that in next week's Torah portion we have Shem or pakshad shalach had three children…
9. 48:55generation he would have been considered righteous why not because you have to take responsibility for…
10. 55:37our desires eyes are the source of our desires so be like an ego in that…

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