R' Mendel Kessin on the Methodology of Learning the 2nd Mishna in Brochos

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okay so we're optimistic basically well the first yeah what do we look for well yeah obviously it's going to start a main message right you know uh some quick questions from yeah is it imperative that you keep in mind the order of the mishnais or we just have to keep the the breakdown of us in mind i mean the sequence of secrets of restrictions yeah well because the review has it on the chart it's really according to the halal it's not according to this nice you just plug in as we go the goal is to create the entire structure of bragas and then to link each mishna where the structure is understand but but then the order mishnais you may get but then the order mishnais you may get so caught up in the the hierarchy that the actual order of mishnays might get lost become fuzzy because you're not focusing on that anymore no no no no no no it's not a matter if you focus it's just where you focus no eventually you will do that you know like before we decided that the central idea of the first mission was what right it was evening shema right right evening uh you know krishna evening when the beginning of that beginning of evening time period you know what i'm

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