Rabbi Akiva: Story & Teachings

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The opening of this shiur, in Chacham Baruch Ben-Haim ztl’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

I shall start again don't worry as I said before we are going to study the connection between which we will celebrate next week with the teachings of rabi Akiva which is the central subject of tonight's lecture and also on the way we will mention the concept of yush since tomorrow is Y yush which is a day of great celebration for the reunification of the city of yush after 2,000 years finally complete in the hands of the Jewish people today also we I mean tomorrow we are not going to say ton because it's a day of happiness and we should be happy for that we should be extremely happy for having back yal time although unfortunately there are clouds of fear and Agony and distress over the fact that America as well as the rest of the world is pressuring Israel to give it back to the Arabs which is so unjust but that's not the the place now to discuss the Injustice of everything that has to do practically with the Jewish people existence so first we should know that shab celebrated next week is the day of Matan T the day when God gave the Torah to the Jewish people on that day why that day was so great for the Jewish people because it was in fact the real cradle of the Jewish people the Jewish people became what they are since that day before that for many hundreds of years they were just slaves and before they were slaves even though the Jewish people has had a certain identity through the fact that

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2. 6:41Robert you understand but that's was that was something that kept them Jewish it's amazing how…
3. 13:00grandchildren and that's why the Jewish people never believed in Idol worshiping even though they were…
4. 19:31depth of the Torah for that you have to dedicate your life to the study of…
5. 25:55Torah what does it mean have to stop from time to time to start to see…
6. 32:20all beginning with root why do you think we read Root megat Root in shab there…
7. 39:00the golden calf our mind became a different one was not anymore able to receive that…
8. 45:25want to believe because if he Lees that means there is an obligation and he doesn't…
9. 51:45crowns from that that was a source of millions of laws and extractions of philosophy from…
10. 58:23expect r a man like this you expect him to die in bed like everybody like…

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