Countdown to Matan Torah | Shiur by Rav Asher Weiss Shlit"a (5785)

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

We embarked on this journey quite a while ago about 40 days ago and we are a week before our final destination. What is that destination? Sinai Hari. The 49 days of spir are a countdown. We embarked on this journey. The second day of Pesak, the days of Sira, 49 steps. It is like a ladder. 49 rungs. And every day we climb one more rung on the ladder. One more stop until we arrive. So, we're almost there. And in just a few days, the final days of preparation of a toad toab. And when we speak about Satyra, the most common idea and phrase is spontaneously cried out vanish. What is so special about teaches So when the people said NASA before Nishma, it is a fundamental appreciation, recognition and acknowledgment that our understanding is limited. We're human. We trust it is an appreciation of the idea of the expresses like the heavens are higher than the earth. We can never fully understand ways. And therefore cried out nasa venish whatever a keshbu requires whatever he demands whatever he asks for we have total trust. This is what we need to do. This is what we want to do whether we understand or not and that is what is so special about and it wasn't a one-time event thousands of years ago when our forefather stood at the foot of the mountain every Jew every day in his essence and whatever he does is Magdishma in Shabas and Kazal tell the story of Ra one of the greatest who was immersed in Tyra study he was learning he didn't even realize that his fingers are under the bench and they're bleeding and that sedi sees him and what does

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1. 0:00We embarked on this journey quite a while ago about 40 days ago and we are…
2. 1:01arrive. So, we're almost there. And in just a few days, the final days of preparation…
3. 2:21So when the people said NASA before Nishma, it is a fundamental appreciation, recognition and acknowledgment…
4. 3:22whatever he demands whatever he asks for we have total trust. This is what we need…
5. 5:03So I'm quoting the lotion of the Gora and Rashi explains tells that we love and…
6. 6:11say the angels dressed them with two crowns of there was only one two words but…
7. 7:15We go to great extremes to encourage them to ask. We expect each and every child…
8. 8:56hear. We cannot perform unless we know what we need to perform. But when you put…
9. 9:59that comes before nishma an additional crown for the nishma that comes after nasa. So just…
10. 11:03individual. When we stood at the foot of the mountain, we stood there as a people,…

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