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Episode 55: Chapter 29c - Abraham's Ten Tests

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Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein

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perz per towards the end of the per the last thing we discussed last week was the mer says that when bum came to curse the Jews so he saw that there were all the the piles of foreskins that were buried under the under the under the ground in the desert and he said how could I curse them me offer yak who was going to be able to count the dirt of yakov I can't curse them they have the of the mitzvah of brisah So I can't curse them. Like of brisah So I can't curse them. Like where the general discussion is the the 10 tests of Ramu. We're talking about the test of bris and then we went off on a whole tangent for like two weeks about bris in general. Right. So basically the men said what was that the the Jews in the midbar in the desert they when they did brism so they put the they put the foreskin underground they buried it in the dirt. So says the medish from here the the sages say we cover the foreskin and the blood of the foreskin in the the dirt of the land. We cover it in dirt and not only that is the reason for covering the foreskin with dirt also because of the fact that the Jews are compared to the dirt of the land. That's why we put the foreskin in a dirt says in the Hashem told the us that their their

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  1. 0:01perz per towards the end of the per the last thing we discussed last week was
  2. 6:18sources and swarm that I've learned a lot from Margolus a lot from Shapiro and of
  3. 12:31became Yeah, I know. And it doesn't say he says that he did it. Okay. Yeah,
  4. 18:42It's muggar. It's you know you it's not open. Right. So, so that's the difference he
  5. 24:54idea of of making sure that the right the right shea goes to the right place
  6. 31:07criticizing it. It seems like the way I understand it, it's criticizing. Now was a few
  7. 37:22to's so the way I understand it I just said one ch but now I'm going
  8. 43:30things together the Ber so therefore they left the foreskin because the the the aer represents
  9. 49:39mitzvah of and decided you know we understand now that the comes directly from hem not
  10. 55:50Hashem. And if you look in theim, so inkim the answer is not really so so

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