Devarim: Don’t Throw in the Kitchen Sink

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

Hi, this is Dov Wolasky with the parsha in 5. We're in 5 minutes. We try to give you a little insight into the parsha. And we start a new safer this week, of course, safer Devarim. And uh it basically begins with Moshe Rabbeinu's farewell address to Klal Yisrael. But his farewell address is described as a tochacha. He is giving them reproof. a tochacha. He is giving them reproof. He's giving them mussar. And as Rashi explains, he waited till the end of his life for various reasons, which maybe we'll talk about it another time. But he waits till the end of his life to give it over. And the pasuk introduces it as follows. Eleh devorim asher dibber Moshe el kol Yisrael be'eiver haYarden. On the east bank of the Jordan. Ba'midbar, in the desert, ba'Aravah. In the Aravah. Mul Suf, across from the Yam Suf. Bein Paran Suf, across from the Yam Suf. Bein Paran u'vein Tofel veLavan. Lavan. >> [clears throat] >> VeLavan. In between Paran and Tofel and Lavan. VeChatzeiros veDi Zahav. There's a lot of direction being discussed over here. And Rashi takes it apart. Ba'midbar, lo ba'midbar hayu, ela be'Arvos Moab. They weren't in the desert. Why does it say "the midbar"? Elah bishvil ma she hach'isuuhu ba'midbar. bishvil ma she hach'isuuhu ba'midbar. Yeah, when the people complained in the desert. Ba'Aravah, what is that? Bishvil Arvos Moab. When they sinned in Arvos Moab by Baal Peor. Mul Suf, what is that? What they did at the Yam Suf. Bein Paran, Bein Tofel, VeLavan. Am Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah lo kam mikrov lo matzinu makom sheshmo Tofel Lavon. I looked through the whole Tanakh and I can't find a place called

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1. 0:00Hi, this is Dov Wolasky with the parsha in 5. We're in 5 minutes. We try…
2. 0:30a tochacha. He is giving them reproof. He's giving them mussar. And as Rashi explains, he…
3. 1:03Suf, across from the Yam Suf. Bein Paran u'vein Tofel veLavan. Lavan. >> [clears throat] >>…
4. 1:33bishvil ma she hach'isuuhu ba'midbar. Yeah, when the people complained in the desert. Ba'Aravah, what is…
5. 2:34Umasha asu b'Midbar Paran. What's Paran? The meraglim. V'Chatzeros. That was because of Korach. Alternatively, the…
6. 3:05He doesn't start uh by going through all of them. He deals with them one at…
7. 3:37And that is they have what they call in marriage a kitchen sink argument. What does…
8. 4:39issue. And let's address that, which is what motion of you know does. He's marames at…
9. 5:10person. Because it doesn't matter. Even if I can defend myself against all of these things,…
10. 5:41away from that intact. So, as we approach Tisha B'Av and we understand that it's a…

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