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

Okay. Good afternoon. So, this week we are in the sixth Torah reading of Parshas Ki Teitzei of the book of Deuteronomy. You know, every time comes Shabbos, Yom Tov, and you put away your phone, or there's a time, you know, today somebody leaves their house, and they say, "Oh, I forgot my phone." But then what about that time they forget your phone on purpose, whether by accident, and then you feel this like relaxation. There's nobody calling you, there's nobody bothering you, and your phone's aside, and every And the world still exists, and this the world still goes on without you answering your phone every time. It's one of those moments in life where you say, "You know what? You can live without it." And I'm sure there's many different things in life that we come to the realization and appreciation that, you know, sometimes we feel that we're attached to something, and we have to have it, and we get all worked up about it when it doesn't work, and then we come to a moment we say, "You know what? It's fine. I'll live without it." This is what we're going to talk about today, the lesson that we can see from this week's Torah reading into the month of Elul. The month of Elul and in general and our service to God can sometimes the struggle, the challenges, the evil inclination, the darkness that may be out there sometimes feel de- feels depleting. Feels like, "Enough. How much can I fight?" But what does God give us? A special gift.

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1. 0:03Okay. Good afternoon. So, this week we are in the sixth Torah reading of Parshas Ki…
2. 5:19person who recently planted a vineyard, as well as those people that were afraid of going…
3. 10:37there's different ways that the Torah can use the word for a month. Over here, the…
4. 15:55plural. Why does it say singular term? When you will go out to war. A war…
5. 21:11else in the world other than the one it has to do as the most beautiful…
6. 27:02And if you think about it, let's go back a step. What does the Torah say?…
7. 32:15completely different way. Something that we say in the Elul, we say Psalm 27. In Psalm…
8. 37:31the Talmud that it talks about why the words of the Torah compare to a doe.…
9. 42:48materialism. And that's why the Zohar calls prayer sha'as tzlacha sha'as k'rava. The time of prayer…
10. 48:08Egypt for 400 years. If you actually break it down to how many years were they…

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