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The opening of this shiur, in The Yanuka — Rav Shlomo Yehuda’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

It is written in the Mishnah, we said in the sixth chapter of Mishnah 4, "You shall eat bread with salt, and drink water sparingly, and you shall sleep on the ground." What does "and you shall live a life of sorrow" mean? What, does the Holy One, blessed be He, want them to be in sorrow? "You will live a life of sorrow"? And this is generally contradicted by the Rambam in the Laws of Lulav, Chapter 8, at the end of the Laws of Lulav, in Chapter 8, Halacha 15, the Rambam says that the joy that a person will have in the work of the commandments, in the observance of the commandments and in the service of God is great work. This is great work, says the Rambam, and whoever does not work with joy - will be punished for it, as it is said, what is written in the Book of Deuteronomy, in the section that will come "Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and with a willing heart" in the Book of Deuteronomy , Chapter 28, in verse 47 "Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and with a willing heart" You did not serve the Lord with joy, you did not serve the Lord with a willing heart, most of all. So if there is no joy during the work, will be punished for it, then how on the one hand can you tell me that you will live a life of sorrow? And how on the other hand will you be punished for it? That

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1. 0:01It is written in the Mishnah, we said in the sixth chapter of Mishnah 4, "You…
2. 0:33end of the Laws of Lulav, in Chapter 8, Halacha 15, the Rambam says that the…
3. 1:46I do not serve the Lord with joy, both from the Torah and from the Rambam,…
4. 2:16So before you go to sleep, give the mind that God has no home and how…
5. 3:18this is the influence of the element for the kingdom, then 'on the earth you will…
6. 4:25so we will explain. We said, pay attention. Another innovation. We…
7. 5:06said, "You shall eat bread with salt" at mealtime. "You shall drink water with a straw."…
8. 6:06on learning that is not for its own sake, etc. The importance of learning, then, is…
9. 6:36To think about the redemption and the Temple, and about the Messiah our savior, etc. There…
10. 7:42take the bread, and dip it in salt, with a filling of salt, with a filling…

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