The World Is Out of Control—Torah Has One Answer – Parshat Ki Tavo - Rabbi Dovid Kaplan

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64 the sorry the uh it starts at 1062 there are two brothers and one of them dies the wife is allowed to bury anybody else the brother-in-law has to marry her what's called what they call translated as leverate marriage the firstborn will Now, it sounds like he'll be named after his brother, but we're going to see it does not named after because the times in the Torah that we find that there was there wasn't they weren't named literally after the deceased brother. His name should not be raised. Now, we'll see what that means. If the man does not want to marry her, she goes to the basin. He refuses. My brother-in-law feels refuses to perpetuate his brother's name. He refuses to marry me. They summon him and he says, "Indeed, I don't want to marry her." His approaches him. She removes his shoe from his foot. mistransated. She spits in his face. That's not what it means. It means she spits in front of him. This is what happens to a man who refuses to build his brother's house. He's called the uh the the the the one who did not consent to perform. Okay. So, what happens over here is like this. First, let's get the cleared. that we're going to understand what's really happening over here. The Torah says that a man dies childless. His wife is now bonded to his brother,

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