Divine Information (in Hebrew with English Subtitles)

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

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] What's the point? Just let us have a little bit of history What's the point? Just let us have a little bit of history that we know, for example, there was a song by Arik Einstein, Joel Moshe Salomon and Zerach Bernal. I was in school. They taught me that it was all kinds of people from the Zionist movement who came and decided to establish the state here and risked their lives. But they never told me that they were all rabbis. No one told me that. No one told me that Petah Tikva, Rosh Pina, Rishon LeZion. All these colonies that we were taught in school were religious people, old rabbis from Europe with all the tuberculosis and the disease that was religious people, old rabbis from Europe with all the tuberculosis and the disease that was here and established the state here. No one told me now why I'm starting the lecture with this. Because just as we learned about citizenship and history that are not accurate, they also basically cut us off completely from Judaism. For example, until five years ago, I didn't know who Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai was. I didn't know what Zohar was. I didn't know who Rambam was. I didn't know who the Holy Hari was. No I knew what Shulchan Aruch was. If you had asked me five years ago, Shulchan Auch, I would have thought it was a cookbook. If you asked 90% of the Jews in the world today what makes

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1. 0:28[Music] [Applause] [Music]…
2. 6:18see anything. Why is its thickness one-third of a hair's thickness? And 80% of the brain…
3. 12:28other end, from one end to the other end, a place like this great thing or…
4. 19:19claims. So how can we understand that there is a God? This is the point. Really,…
5. 25:47error. It is a fact that is established forever. Every creature that you are going to…
6. 32:32crazy, this wall What interests me is that the Holy One, blessed be He, swore to…
7. 38:49seventh discovery is that there is a place in a settlement that is all day and…
8. 45:21also sinks and loses all his money and dies. Why at the time he uses drugs?…
9. 51:49but I had a trial Do you remember in your memory I'm sure there was a…
10. 58:15question. They asked me a question that now we want an answer. I said first of…

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