Parashat Emor - Does Hashem need us? (Zera Shimshon 14)

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

welcome everyone to our weekly shior on the parashah with the perus of the Zera tonight Hashem were doing the 14th this year is uh is dedicated Hashem and also to all those singles that are learning with us and those that are not May Hashem find them there's if they send them there's alef 31 1 chapter 31. the first um of the midrash says on the pasuk on the pasuk that is in which is parashat and more Summit the Torah commands us the Torah commands us to um to command that we should take Zach pure olive oil and to light the menorah this is not the menorah that we light for Hanukkah this is not that Menorah we're talking about the menorah that was lit like some people in this room we're talking about the menorah that was we're talking about the menorah that was lit in the betamic dash by the by the Jews at the time so the midrash says like this on the pasuk that the Torah commands Bene Israel to light in Menorah it says oh God who is like you who's comparable to you and it and it and it does continue that you are righteous you're great and then it continues and says and then it continues and says who is like you in the heavens who is like you below the heavens underneath basically who you're the one who created everything and you are the one who sustains all in the heavens and below the heavens amen okay who is likened to you that you suppress your

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1. 0:01welcome everyone to our weekly shior on the parashah with the perus of the Zera tonight…
2. 5:40so if you listened to the midrash it said that Hashem you light up the world…
3. 11:22it's actually happening did you know that the sun broke yesterday and no one even knew…
4. 17:02powerful do you see a hurricane do you see a volcano as all-powerful well that doesn't…
5. 22:36finally after hours upon hours of waiting behind the guy begging they let him in he…
6. 28:15I'm not going to shine in a world that that fool exists say he comes to…
7. 33:24into a pharmacy and you ask them please stab me with a needle this is something…
8. 38:58it means to say um we definitely need to understand a reason we need to understand…
9. 44:39you cannot benefit from the light let me ask you something and I'm asking this seriously…
10. 50:21when you work for something you feel like ah I did it who says sure you…

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