Shoftim: The Astounding Procedure of the Eglah Arufa and the Supernatural Worms

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

the the axed hepher. Okay, the axer. That's what we're going to examine at the end of this week's Torah portion in your Bibles. Okay, so just going to read the very quickly. If you find a corpse on the in the earth gave you to inherit fallen in the field, you don't know who the murderer is. So the elders and the judge as they go out and they measure to the cities that surround the lane, the closest city. So we put responsibility on the closest city. The elders of that city take a calf that was never worked. The oil that did not pull a yoke. So an unworked calf. They take him down to a harsh valley. By the way, harsh means hard. It was a valley that was never plowed. It's an untapped resource. By the way, Kyvski wrote a whole safe on a massive safer on the laws of if you see it and you you appreciate what went this is we don't do anymore. He wrote a major safer on the name of the safer is that's the name of the safer. Now what does that mean? That work has not been done and which was not >> not or it can't be. It's so full of rocks that it can't be worked. >> It cannot be worked >> and cannot be planted and they >> hatch it. They axe off the calf on the valley. Then the kahan approach. Why the kahanim? Cuz God selected them to serve him to bless him and through them will be every argument and every nega. By the way, the GR says this P alludes to the five jobs that a has the

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1. 0:30the the axed hepher. Okay, the axer. That's what we're going to examine at the end…
2. 3:14certain finds in this rem of the various tasks of the and all the elders. that…
3. 6:30this is mitzvah as per what does it mean as it doesn't just mean a valley.…
4. 9:11The reason for the ritual is to inspire the people. not to inspire to wake them…
5. 12:39is. What does that mean? stone says no where the stone get that from I argue…
6. 15:18Okay. Comes and he says there's a little bit of help from heaven to find the…
7. 18:40mentions of this? The recanti ricanti I believe is one of the wrote a parish on…
8. 21:22follow. He says he's going to be embarrassed because look, everyone's going to know he's the…
9. 24:30>> When you do the eggla that activates the worms, so this is an interesting thing.…
10. 27:11And then there the the the pane says something very interesting [Applause] that both are true.…

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