Shavuos: Motherhood - The Role of Women in Kabbalas HaTorah

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

Thomas and even more surprising the Torah that we have today is because of one person who never even went to Yeshiva and this person that we are crediting the entire existence of our Torah was not even a man the Torah that we have today is because of one woman let's see exactly who we're speaking about there was once an ordinary man named Akiva was advanced in life he was still an ignorance he was still in amaras a simple Shepherd and I think we all know who we're speaking about one day while pastoring the Sheep of his master Kaaba savua who is a very wealthy person this Akiva was noticed by his master's daughter this young woman sees Akiva and she thinks to herself this Akiva is different than the other Shepherds there's something extraordinary about him she sees his countenance it's illuminated by an exceptional intelligence an exceptional nobility of Soul what a Pity she thinks to herself that such great dormant talents remain buried forever in an ordinary ignorant Shepherd she sees that Akiva has thrilling character he's a diamond in the rough and she begins to speak to him and she urges him to develop himself to develop a career in learning Tyra now in those days to be learning Tyro is considered a morats and ignoramus was consumed with envy and hatred towards so much that he once remarked give me one of those sages and I'll bite him like a donkey and here this woman is urging him to join their ranks and to study Torah finally she says to him if you go to the Yeshiva I will marry you

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1. 0:30Thomas and even more surprising the Torah that we have today is because of one person…
2. 3:37toes away and he goes back to the Yeshiva for another 12 years returns a second…
3. 7:12satellite hookup to say that a hundred thousand Jews participated in the cmashas is not an…
4. 10:55handsome appearance and one day Thomas comes to the Shivan he tells the Russia the lesson…
5. 14:30so the next night she doesn't get dressed up she doesn't put on her makeup she's…
6. 18:11of all the tanam it was by the way we follow his view we pass can…
7. 21:46during their Seminary years worked on themselves connected to three law connected Hashem and for a…
8. 25:25where the soft feminine Touch of a mother is challenged by the world it's being undermined…
9. 29:00the emotion the mother gives the child his identity to the mother the child is the…
10. 32:42knew she separated from her husband when David was born they called him a master this…

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