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Parshas Bereishis: Good Character Vs. Torah Knowledge - What Is More Important?

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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patience voracious and we're going to speak about the creation of man now we know that the creation of man was different from the creation of all other aspects of creation in the sense that the revolution actually seems to have uh involved other participants in the creation of Man by yarmer like him and God said NASA Adam let us make man bits salmenu in our image in our likeness that you're doing hold dominated the fish of the silver if Hashem and the birds of the heavens and the animals God will create man man will be the Pinnacle and the dominant force of nature God created Man In His Image but like him the image of God did he create him foreign God created man male and female we have a very unusual expression God said let us make man who's the US who's the we I mean God is the creator he's the commander-in-chief and they're no they're not there's no the vice president and there's no Secretary of State and there's no Congress and there's no House of Representatives Hashem is it's all his this is the only uh Force so what does it mean let us make men it almost leaves room for the heretic to error and Rashi in fact points out and this we learned the humility of God Man was created in the likeness of the angels and they would be jealous of men so therefore God uh took their advice consult with them Allah when God judges Kings he also consults with his uh with his retinue right this is a good advice you bring a new child into the house the older children are jealous so good advice would be you ask them advice how do you think where do you think we should put the baby how should

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  1. 0:33patience voracious and we're going to speak about the creation of man now we know that
  2. 5:27still did not refrain from teaching manners etiquette and humility a greater person should seek the
  3. 10:53your heart will be arrogant you're going to forget God bottom line is arrogance is bad
  4. 16:14the midsize are not really found explicitly in the Torah it doesn't really say in the
  5. 21:13altar of sabotka as it is known that somebody once wrote what somebody once mentioned to
  6. 26:42son we both you're giving room to the meaning and Hashem says no I need to
  7. 32:10then you come to know him by being like God you come to know him by
  8. 36:58as The Superficial perceptionist Anu regila it is human nature to materialize everything um therefore we
  9. 42:23adios Amigo I leave you I am no longer in your heart I am no longer
  10. 47:52it back but the the humble person his heart is Nish barbicer by one who reaches

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