Flexible Stones - Ki Sisa (Rabbi Dovid Kaplan) (Weekly Parsha)

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okay we're on page 492 gentlemen so last time we spoke about um on 492 three lines on the bottom gives them the twoos of testimony two L written with hashem's literally the Finger of God hashem's literally the Finger of God that's what the literal meaning is obviously God doesn't have fingers so one of the questions uh that the the the the uh the mforum deal with is why are the luos in stone why were the luos why was the the the Ten Commandments which According to some of the for that the entire Torah was contained in alluded to either alluded to or actually written in between the letters different opinions between the letters different opinions but why is it in the stone what is the idea of stone so obviously the first the first idea of why the Torah is given in stone is that what unchange unchangeable it's carved in stone and Torah is not something we could tamper with the fact that there's an or that that there's a Torah shal and we we we may come up with ideas but that's all contained in Torah but we're not going to change Torah as a matter of fact there's a medish that says this is remarkable that the luos

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1. 0:00okay we're on page 492 gentlemen so last time we spoke about um on 492 three…
2. 2:03out completely around it so how did that piece of uh uh sarino which is the…
3. 4:37the famous story with re AA Rea was a ignorant Shepherd and one day he went…
4. 7:14what Raba understands and that's why he becomes a great reaka that's what we have to…
5. 9:51the luos represent the potential banging together to create fire that's the fire of the Torah…
6. 12:32intermediary thank you thank you the intermediary that we relied on to contact God we need…
7. 15:05doing it he regretted that he's got to resort to this and he makes it into…
8. 17:38people you know how early do you get up for Minion yeah hey good let's minion…
9. 20:13with excitement which is never a good thing and I'm buzzing with excitement because I realized…
10. 22:50massive he pointed out in every movement in the world every ideology in the world how…

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