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Beyond The Conflict

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Mendy Goldberg

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Okay, good afternoon. So this week we are in the sixth Torah reading of parasete of the book of Deuteronomy. You know, every time comes Shabas Yamiff 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 that you 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 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 and 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 El. The month of El and in general and our service to God can sometimes the struggle, the challenges, the evil inclination, the the darkness that may be out there sometimes feels depleting, feels like enough. How much can I fight? But what does God give us? A special gift. a gift of the Torah that gives us

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  2. 5:25about how the kohanim, they were the ones that recruited the Jewish people by blowing the
  3. 10:41Torah uses for a month. Sometimes the Torah uses the terminology for a month which means
  4. 15:57singular term when you will go out to war? A war is not what one individual
  5. 21:16That means the evil inclination allows you to see somebody else's wife more beautiful than yours.
  6. 27:10easing your temptation. Doesn't make it so bad. That means the only reason why you want
  7. 32:30only one thing and what does he go on to list like about seven things. I
  8. 37:46as a person as a baby nurses from its mother that the milk is constantly there.
  9. 43:03you choose. This week telling us about it. When you choose to go out to war,
  10. 48:24>> How old was Miriam when the Jewish people left Egypt? 86 years old. So if

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