Torah Crash Course: Part 1 - Introduction with Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe

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

so good evening everybody and welcome to the first of a five-part series on the five books in five weeks and eight so this is a Torah crash course and we're going to go through a very brief and and quick overview of the entire Torah but before we do that it is critically important to understand what the Torah is and what it means to us is and what it means to us okay so before we do and before we go through each portion and discuss them I'm going to spend some time explaining and giving an introduction so to speak to the tour now it's a frightening thing to give an introduction to the Torah because the Torah is not like you know some random author writes a book and we're going to talk about the book and it's like we're gonna make creative book club you know this is the manual for life now what type of book is the Torah right one might ask what type of book is right one might ask what type of book is the Torah so is it a history book is it a story book is it a book of laws is it a book of Commandments is it a book of suggestions recommendations what type of book is the Torah you know I was once talking to someone and we were talking about the Ten Commandments he says you know it's ten suggestions alright so I can't help you if you think it's ten suggestions it's ten commandments but we're gonna talk

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1. 0:00so good evening everybody and welcome to the first of a five-part series on the five…
2. 6:16are getting a race alright so you get that race great what are you gonna do…
3. 12:23they mean but just that we know we lay down the the framework okay there are…
4. 18:34observe them from the oral torah and the oral torah is you know there are three…
5. 24:42you need to know it it's not the New York Times magazine right you don't read…
6. 30:59eclipse will be would be in trying to remember the name of the place now in…
7. 37:10what I'm talking about right but when you talk about the Torah Lahav deal not to…
8. 43:21know why because they are the example of what it means to grow up in exile…
9. 49:36something now it's not only a life's lesson it's a prophecy it's a prophecy in fact…
10. 55:57portion okay it's unbelievable right the foundation of Jewish life the future history is mapped out…

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