PARSHAS BECHUKOSAI: "Learning Torah - The Greatest Vacation Ever" by Rabbi Dovid Horowitz

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

evening everyone welcome back to another week of the zooming into the weekly parsha we have a double parsha this week once again and we're going to focus in on the second of the pasha's behind site if you look in the very beginning of that parasha it says if you will go with my hook him you'll go with my statutes vesma's voice i teach moro and you will guard my mitzvahs my you will guard my mitzvahs my commandments vassissa my son and you will guard them you will do them you will perform them so rashi famously says over here in the opening lines of bechukaisai in because if you will go with the statutes that i am giving you here what are what exactly is that referring to says rashi heavy amelia torah if a person in this in in the in the verse over here will take it to in the verse over here will take it to heart and they will learn that it means that if i may leave her that a person has to be almost they have to work hard in the torah they have to take it to heart they have to spend the time and the effort and the energy that is there tara is not something that's not a newspaper that you can understand easily it's not a google search that you're going to make to try to understand the wisdom of hashem the torah is so deep and it's so vast and it's so monumental that the only way in which a person is

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1. 0:00evening everyone welcome back to another week of the zooming into the weekly parsha we have…
2. 5:40he can grow with strength and with power and with might he can grow longer and…
3. 11:55if you will walk in my statutes says the verse and the sages expound upon that…
4. 18:08ask anybody who spent years learning torah every day is not easy even the great wilheim…
5. 24:31then they are going down down god forbid ki built the ef says the villain it…
6. 30:42though he couldn't understand the learning even though he was a laughingstock in yeshiva it didn't…
7. 36:48unfortunately they could not keep their mouths closed and they got to the point where the…
8. 42:59and he wants to be able to accomplish the same things they talk he wants to…
9. 49:09efforts that are going to elevate us from one level to the next level and not…
10. 55:47they could not understand the torture the suffering the unknown the hardships everything that he went…

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