Celebrating Simchat Torah: Five Levels of Understanding-שמחת תורה

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

[Music] the final two days of suus is known as and Tor what is the meaning of sh what is the meaning of t what is the source for this holiday and why is it considered to be the most joyous day of the year when we dance with the Torah around the beima dance with the Torah around the beima seven times and then we take the toras into the streets and we dance for 48 hours what makes this day so special we begin with theat the simple interpretation by looking into the Torah and we find there are two verses that deal with this concept one in the Torah portion or The Book of Leviticus chapter 23 verse number 36 over there it chapter 23 verse number 36 over there it says in the Torah on the eth day he on that day we call it it's a day of what does mean says Rashi it's a day of it's a day that it's a day that you are detained by me why me why because it's difficult for me to see you go away and as gives an example of a king that had his children over for seven days and now before they're about to leave he says spend one more day with me before you go away so this is the concept of spend one more day before you go away and when you look at the holidays you think about the Jews going up to uh Jerusalem to the Holy Temple

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1. 0:02[Music] the final two days of suus is known as and Tor what is the meaning…
2. 2:41about and that is a p in Deuteronomy that it says it says you shall rejoice…
3. 5:50law in chapter 669 tells us that the real Joy here that we're celebrating is the…
4. 8:58March around the imaginary walls the walls that separate man and God the walls of sin…
5. 12:07vitality and our existence and our energy from the a from the 70 Angels or the…
6. 15:14people and you held them together in one bond in one KN but now you're leaving…
7. 18:20mean why is it so joyous one more question we explained that t is a holiday…
8. 21:27greater the connection no it's a closed Torah why because it's God's Delight it's a connection…
9. 24:32greater it's interesting to note that the once said that Masia are the are the letters…
10. 27:33able to cut it with a knife I used to be on on the bleachers on…

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