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Matot - Live a Little | Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

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Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

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We also had a dedication to today's uh breakfast here in Beit Knesset. Simcha bat Malka. Uh l'ilui nishmat Tzurah bat a'H. Okay. Let's begin, rabotai. Our pasuk teaches us if you lower it just a little bit more. The pasuk teaches us a very interesting idea, and I want to take it perhaps in a different direction than maybe we've done in in previous years. We know the pasuk tells us We know the pasuk tells us lo yahel d'varo k'chol asher yotzei m'piv ya'aseh. A person who promises something, they make a neder, they make a promise, the halacha is that you have to keep your promise. According to one of the opinions rabotai, if you're studying Torah, please continue and do not lower your volume. If you were talking about anything else, please uh if we could stop so we can hear everyone else can hear properly. So, according to one opinion, that's why So, according to one opinion, that's why we put connected these commandments together with the holidays because the idea is that a person who promises to give in the they have a fixed amount of holidays that they could miss before they over there on this over there of okay? However, I today am not going to talk to you about the time limit of when you over on over there. Rather, I want to speak to you a little bit about the idea itself, about what it

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  1. 1:02We also had a dedication to today's uh breakfast here in Beit Knesset. Simcha bat Malka.
  2. 3:34you know something? I really I should look out for your daughter. I got to help
  3. 6:12is a result of what? A result of God's word. Says the pasuk, "Lo yahel devaro."
  4. 8:43is the thing that's going to bring about the punishment. Yani, if the arm sinned, then
  5. 11:16"Ki lo al alechem levado yichyeh adam ki al kol motza pi Hashem yichyeh adam." The
  6. 13:48So, if God spoke existence into creation, the thing closest to borei olam, well, at least
  7. 16:24day speaks you into existence. He speaks your into existence. God makes a decree on high
  8. 18:56Hakadosh Baruch Hu should bless us that we also should not be mechallel dibur. When God
  9. 21:27The father says he needs he needs a bottle. What does the mother say? No. That's
  10. 24:02They give us the most beautiful, amazing things all the time. So, you know we start

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