Parasha Class 10.20.20: Wonderous Beresheet by Ricky Cohen

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

thanks sure hi mom no because then they can't get on to the collection [Laughter] hi joey how are you nice to see you joe what's hello everybody hello friends long time no see yeah great to see everyone hi hi jerry okay so we'll get started the um what um we spoke about the um what um we spoke about in terms of just a quick uh introduction last week was as follows that the the torah as we know is not a history book and it's not a science book and we've said this before what the torah is is god's word to us to understand how he wants us to understand things so we don't we don't look at it from a perspective of what is the historical process here or does this pen pan out science it really doesn't matter pan out science it really doesn't matter what matters is that this is the way aka who wants us to look at the world and understand the world good and we said it's dynamic and that each as you know we study year after year the same text we do that just like our perspective of life and the world changes and it's therefore rich and vibrant go ahead and look at things from a new and fresh perspective perspective now that being said we have to look at the text we have to be very very very close to the text and here's where i want to spend some some time in terms of this series of questions where we're going to get at the language structure at the sentence structure at the redundancy seeming redundancy in certain in certain at the choice of certain terms

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1. 0:00thanks sure hi mom no because then they can't get on to the collection [Laughter] hi…
2. 4:06and i gotta understand what's what so let's start with some of the premises based upon…
3. 8:50the perspective that our life will be harshly judged very critically considered wait a second then…
4. 13:32they're all right how does it work it works to the point of if language is…
5. 17:38there are exactly that and maybe more and that's that's uh that's where we go with…
6. 22:12much later until ester and morocco brought us to a different point but in the beginning…
7. 26:53what yeah the same way the human being creates the same way the human being creates…
8. 31:01and those species that can't evolve and refine themselves and become more hardy over time they…
9. 35:37sometimes ten are getting together the overall sum total of all the movement is actual and…
10. 40:29the ten ma'am these ten sayings were said all at one time i don't know all…

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