Were Two of Judaism’s Greatest Leaders Converts? - Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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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.

Shaya Naval. You may be familiar with them from Perky Avice. Their names are mentioned throughout Shas. And the reason why I'm speaking about it is a I was just there this past Monday and it's actually related to this week's para. Let's begin with the Arizal. Theal taught that when you say the what does it mean? The throne of David your servant should you should quickly establish the Arizal. This is report by the Arizal warned us very greatly on a certain day that we went to the Kev of Abal. So here we learn that and would visit the ke of when we would d in there and he told us again and again and again and again that we should reme that we should mention in every single that when we say the words that should not die there's a concept there's mash and when you say you should have in mind should not die. Who's going to kill him? Arasha. Okay. And Mashiach is called David is David is Ben. And this this is the essence of it says in ask for life. You're supposed to ask for the life of Messiah B. Why? Because the Z teaches Mashiach will ultimately die. And we didn't understand what that was getting at. Why? Why did every time we visited he would tell us that shouldn't die. He kept on warning us again and again again shouldn't die. We didn't get it. Only God knows the secret. In the end, we figured it out. Dal died. Now this is a very cryptic passage. It

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1. 0:00Shaya Naval. You may be familiar with them from Perky Avice. Their names are mentioned throughout…
2. 4:29leadership? Can a convert be a president of Ashul? He could get aliyah. He could get…
3. 8:49the tashbait say they also can't say hey. But it's because the real he is more…
4. 13:06converts they couldn't be the nsi and azen it means they came from converts back many…
5. 17:26where the godal called him uh say yeah you could go to the yeah yeah go…
6. 21:48It's only if nobody else is more qualified. If anyone else is qualified, then of course…
7. 26:16in this week's para you know you never know paraim you never know who the bal…
8. 30:47destroyed it's amazing and the mish by the way anyway so tyus asks why were kai…
9. 35:02also has to be Jewish it's not enough for your mother to be Jewish your father…
10. 39:21Zakaria the problem was that the terrorists were his own his own brethren. If you go…

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