Borders Made of Roses - Parsha Yisro - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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Good evening and welcome to all of our viewers this evening from across the globe. Tonight's class is dedicated by our dear friends, David and Eda Shattenstein, in the sacred memory of the Kedoshim of Mumbai, including Rabbi Gavriel Noach and Rivka Holtzberg, as well as in the loving memory of a young girl, Alta Shula Bas Reby Soveitska Sverdlov. Borders made of roses is our theme this evening. Not once, not twice, but three times does God caution and warn the Jewish people not to trespass the boundary designated and approach Mount Sinai, where revelation is about to happen. At first glance, it seems that this caution, this warning is justified because as God says in the weekly portion of Yisro, approaching the mountain of Sinai can be detrimental for any person who touches the mountain. But yet, the fact that he instructs this commandment not to approach the mountain once, twice, and then three times indicates that this is actually a major theme of the narrative. It's not just a detail. Make sure you don't touch the mountain. The emphasis on this instruction would seem to indicate that this constitutes a major part of the story. But why? Why is this such a relevant detail and point here? It's an important instruction to make, but it's not the story. And yet, the major emphasis on it seems such as suggest that this is indeed a major part of the narrative. Let us study the story inside. Please bring up source number one. You can open your source sheet right below the video. There is a PDF. Source number one. God

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