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7 Mouths - Parashat Pinchas - Rabbi Dovid Kaplan

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Rabbi Dovid Kaplan

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which is on page uh 876. Now I tell you a an a very interesting concept over here which is really a uh it's it's a what does that do? >> Backup recorder just in case this doesn't work. >> Uhhuh. What backs up the backup recorder just in case neither of them work? I mean it is a Jewish organization you know. You never know. >> Okay. Uh I say is a life concept. It's a very interesting life concept. So Torah says like this. All right. You had this issue with the Midianite girls and the Moabite girls. And uh the uh uh the Torah then says like this Mosha Lear four lines from the bottom in 876. So, I think he translates harass them. So, I think he translates harass them. Is that how he translate harass? I love that word. Torment the Medidionites and you shall smite them. Now, it doesn't say they're not going to go to war now. The war is going to come only later. But Hashem is saying to the Jewish people, this is what you're going to do to the Midian to the Midionites. You're going to harass them. You're going to torment them. We'll see what that means in a second because they tormented you by getting you enticed in worshiping idols and getting involved with the Midionite girls. Now, the Midionite girls are taken to task more than the Moabites. The Moabites were fighting a got involved out of fear. They got involved. They were nerd. The Jewish people, the bullock was saw the Jewish people getting close to Moab. They weren't close to Midyan. The Midionites are taking the task for more because all they're doing is trying to cause the Jewish people to sin. You're coming out. What? What? What are what are you getting involved for? And what are you

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  1. 0:00which is on page uh 876. Now I tell you a an a very interesting concept
  2. 4:39don't see any leaflets going back and forth over there. Oh, all of a sudden, Israel
  3. 9:18Okay. They're going to take account of the Jewish people on page 878. And the Torah
  4. 14:00>> I think first third is the worst. >> You'd say either first or third. So
  5. 18:34There's always Koraks around. By the way, I think that a lot of us we have
  6. 23:13how to Yeah. What? Yeah. I know what a phone call I know what a phone
  7. 27:47her hand and the boy won't shake her hand. She says, "Why won't you shake my
  8. 32:23problematic that would have been more problematic I was once at uh I was once at
  9. 37:07the various families of and then it says now do you see anything? What jumps out
  10. 41:45all come from the tribe of Binyammen. And then there are two more prominent people from

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