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Chelek 25 Lech Lecha 2 Rabbi Yosef Kantor

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Sicha Women Shiur - Project Likkutei Sichos

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to this computer. This is a book 25 the portion of the second in that book and this is a journey which is going to compare the way my manam teaches the laws of circumcision what he how he describes the greatness of ma circumcision we're going to compare that with what seems to be his source the Jerusalem Talmud going to pick up one distinction and build a pays for the fact that this one distinction once we get unravel the answer by the Rambam is seemingly quoting a source a thousand years before him which is Talmudic but making one short small change actually leads us to discover that there's a fundamental understanding about circumcision that um is to be had that wouldn't jump out at you if without noticing this variance between am and the shami. But in order to get to that, we're going to actually do the methodical understanding and unpacking of the sources. So paragraph one in the end of the laws of circumcision as taught in my monities in the Rambam speaks. So he he gives you the minut the details of what actually is involved, the ins and outs of circumcision. And then he concludes by speaking about the greatness of the mitzvah of circumcision. And he says all the mitzvah of the Torah, there are three covenants that are stated about them. That Hashem made a covenant three times with the Jews that they must keep the mitzvah. So we agreed covenantally that we're going to keep Hashem's mitzvah three times. Whereas as about the mitzvah of bliss about circumcision it says 13 times with our patriarch 13 times the word covenant in our para that we're reading this week starting from

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  1. 0:00to this computer. This is a book 25 the portion of the second in that book
  2. 4:53spelled out which 13 places it's it's the 13 references to the word bris. That's not
  3. 9:41Why does the shami who's an earlier thousand years earlier he does bring that first verse
  4. 15:04other is not. And in order to get to understand that let's first take a journey
  5. 19:51says that the bris is so powerful that it pushes that that um that was not
  6. 25:05It's the same thing. It makes me feel good because of the nutrients and I'm but
  7. 29:50two things. The word covenant can mean the general covenant between God and the Jew. And
  8. 34:36is already made automatically at birth with the boy. It expresses itself in the actual circumcision.
  9. 40:02give Mosha reprieve That's how stringent this mitzvah is. More he says that adds it's all
  10. 44:47physical state. Why? Because we say that non-Jews are called in the prophets all the non-Jews

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