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

[Music] Page 12, page 1 The Ten Commandments begin with the word " I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and all of it is required by the Gemara on our page. In a few minutes, we will see this. "I am the acronym "Na Nafishy" (I am my soul, written by Yahvet)" as if the Holy One, blessed be He, says, "I myself wrote and gave you the children of Israel the Torah." In simple terms, the Holy One, blessed be He, intends to tell us, "I myself, not through messengers, not through messengers, I myself wrote the Torah and gave it to you." But the righteous say, "There is something much deeper, much more exalted, much more powerful here." The Holy One, blessed be He, says, "Behold, my soul, written by Yahvet, I wrote my soul and gave it within the Torah." This means that the Torah is, as it were, a part of me, a part of myself, and flesh, the flesh of the words of the Torah. Thus writes the author of the Tanya. They are in fact the Holy One, blessed be He, Himself, who reduced Himself to clothing, and descended to our world, the world of matter and the letters of the Torah. When we are blessed and study the Torah, He writes in

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1. 0:02[Music] Page 12, page 1 The Ten Commandments begin with the word " I am the…
2. 1:37The letters of the Torah are a literal part of the Holy One, blessed be He.…
3. 3:10see that the Holy Torah already used the language of emptying. Rabbi Yochanan Dida said, "I…
4. 4:42fills the entire husk and, as it were, looks puffed up and full. That is how…
5. 6:43here too, because he had enough time in the time that passed between them to make…
6. 8:15know my excitement when we reach the end of the chapters and, blessed be God, here…
7. 9:49same collar, whatever it's called, that person has in their hand, on which threads are wrapped.…
8. 11:51committed then what Rav Yitzhak said two he is talking about thin threads that are already…
9. 13:24Kill it separately when it is narrower and therefore already three threads are tied, and the…
10. 14:54also at the beginning, here we see a stanza as a rabbi. The Gemara continues and…

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