Naso: When You Need An Extreme

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

Ladies and gentlemen, I'll ask you to parsha in five or in five minutes. We try to give you an idea in the parsha. And this is parshas Naso. What is parshas Naso? It's a lot of things in parshas Naso. We're finishing up all of the last bits and pieces before we begin our triumphal march into Eretz Yisrael in parshas Balak and parshas Pinchas. And we have two interesting halachas that I've brought here, which is of course the din of a sotah and the din of a nazir. The din of a sotah is that if a woman has been warned by her husband not to lock herself up in a room for enough time to have relations with a specific person. And she does it anyway, that's it. They have to get divorced. Parenthetically, that applies today, too. If a husband tells his wife, "I do not want you to be locked up in a room with Bob and you do, you have to get divorced." But in the time of the Beit Hamikdash, a woman could say, "I'm innocent." Today we say, "Well, too bad." You know, sometimes actions have consequences, whether we want them or not. But then

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1. 0:00Ladies and gentlemen, I'll ask you to parsha in five or in five minutes. We try…
2. 0:32by her husband not to lock herself up in a room for enough time to have…
3. 1:03she could offer to become a sotah. We take it to the Beit Hamikdash. We try…
4. 1:33don't have to do this. And if she's innocent, she will drink the sotah water and…
5. 2:03a Nazir. A Nazir is a person who takes upon himself a vow. He says, "I…
6. 2:33So, the Gamorah says, "What is the connection? Why did the Torah take the story of…
7. 3:05to ask forgiveness for the fact that he was a Nazir. But you just told me…
8. 3:35and you need to go through a therapy to deal with that. But that's not normal.…
9. 4:06you're allowed to do it." Should you be able to drink wine and see the good…
10. 4:36happened. But, we have to go through a process of recovery. And then, after he cuts…

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