Rabbi David Kaplan - Philosophy of Mitzvot: Offering of the Kohen Hagadol

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

uh the the mid mid-center 130 seconds offering in the morning have his offering in the afternoon that was what we had spoke about the mental offering and the first thing we mentioned was that this is a way of allowing the poor people to feel good about themselves because they see that the Congo brings a uh the most inexpensive offering so they took and can link themselves to go and go now there's another idea over here the idea over here is that there's quite a few ideas actually uh one of the ideas here is that the let me ask you a question if I come over to you and uh I would say to you you know trivia yada yada yada better table manners right and I say that to you while I got my elbows on the table and I've got a fist full of mashed potatoes and you know I've got spaghetti dripping down my device I say Tiffany and I got to work on your table manners how would you feel I mean hypocritical how would you accept it I'm accepted graciously oh you would huh yeah I'll bet help I would remember this right because it's something Julius right to it was embarrassment that's very good so you personally would accept it graciously most people wouldn't be so gracious about it now if you have a roommate and you're ruined now okay now what if uh uh uh what's her name uh the lady who wrote the all those books on etiquette I forgot her name uh she wrote those all the books about you know and she herself you know somebody with better etiquette would say you know really we we expect but we could we expect better from you and yet you might accept it you know because after all she's the expert okay let's use a better

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