The Ten Commandments: You Shall Not Say G-d's Name in Vain

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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 third of the Ten Commandments is the Commandment of and that is do not take the name of God in vain and the Torah goes on to say that for God will not absolve anyone that does take his name in vain to understand this uh commandment on five on five levels the simple level and the hint and and htics and so the esoteric and also the level ofus what is the meaning the plain meaning of this Mitzvah of this commandment so the ram tells us that there are four basic Oaths that go into this prohibition of Leisa in other words do not take my name in in vain and therefore do not swear in in vain and therefore do not swear the following number one is do not swear that something which is obvious obviously a stone or a pillar made of Shish a pillar made of marble and you swear I swear that this is a pillar made out of gold everybody knows this is marble everybody knows this is Stone and you're taking an oath before the entire world that this is made out of gold world that this is made out of gold that's the first prohibition the second prohibition and the second oath is not to swear on something that is obvious and Undisputed in other words I swear right now in the name of God that this table is a table or I swear in the name of God that this car is a car or I swear in the name of God that this wood table is actually wood and not something else this is Undisputed nobody's arguing here we are

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1. 0:02[Music] the third of the Ten Commandments is the Commandment of and that is do not…
2. 2:33took an oath on Sinai that we are going to uphold the Torah so now you…
3. 5:14not take my name in vain God too has to uphold his oath and that is…
4. 8:21also lifting up all the branches and therefore the entire world is affected and infected by…
5. 10:56expansive letter representing the idea of Bina understanding taking this idea and developing it then you…
6. 14:08the oath of of uh the Mitzvah the gamar asks the question how can you take…
7. 16:42is not part of the oath so therefore we take an additional oath right before the…
8. 19:16obligations and all its responsibilities and furthermore this oath reveals to the soul that the soul…
9. 22:25value and and the the Holiness of an oath and then we have the concept of…
10. 24:55up however AB sha does not show up he's waiting 12:05 and 1210 and 12 15…

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