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Oh okay, okay, now in the name of God, we will do it and we will succeed and we will learn, God willing. This parashah contains Parashah Ber. It contains 26 commandments. The main point of the parashah or the main point of the commandments in this parashah is about the Shabbat and the Jubilee. So, there are many things, many morals, many things to learn from the parashah. And with God's help, we will learn them. So the parashah begins with a verse that is really, really them. So the parashah begins with a verse that is really, really important to understand. Because it can change a person's life. If a person truly has a goal to reach a place where he is really close to God, connected to God, and really acts in the way of God, then here the parashah begins with a verse that says, "And the Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai, saying, 'Speak to the children of Israel and tell them that you will come into the land that I am giving you, that I am giving you, and the Sabbath of the land is a Sabbath to the Lord.' So the first thing we notice is that this is the first place that we see, the only place that we see that the Holy One, blessed be He, adds two words in the first verse, saying, "And the Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai." Now, every time the Holy One, blessed be He, speaks about Moses, it was all the time at Mount Sinai. All the commandments we received at Mount Sinai are not the first time. But here is the only place that the Holy One, blessed be He, writes
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