Rav Yitzchak Breitowitz: Receiving A Report Card From Hashem

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

[music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] [singing] >> Okay, everybody, thank you for coming. I apologize for apologize for being a little late today. I hope most of you at least got word that we were starting at 9:00. Our dedications are as always, and especially now, once again, praying for the lasting unity of Am Yisrael leading to victory and for all of those whose health has been affected by terror, the neshama of all the chayalim, Hashem's protection for all of Klal Yisrael, for the geulah sheleimah very, very soon. Amen. Um and they This is a special dedication which is our special dedication which is our heartfelt gratitude to our graduates for honoring us with your presence and for serving as the mesader kiddushin at our wedding. We are especially grateful you were able willing to do so during the war. This is a very, very nice couple, Esther and Jonathan Pranman. Some of you might know Jonathan's first wife who worked for the OU for many years and baruch Hashem he has gotten a zivug sheini and baruch Hashem also it's a wonderful, wonderful, beautiful beautiful beautiful shidduch. It was my honor to to participate. Okay, so today Today's parsha, this week's parsha, this really tests how much you really love the Torah because you know how [clears throat] it's easy when you're reading about the sin of the tree of knowledge or Yosef and his brothers. Of course, those are such interesting stories, they're vivid stories, family drama. Okay, that doesn't mean you love the Torah, you just like nice stories. But now we come to the technical aspects

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1. 0:02[music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] [singing] >> Okay, everybody, thank you for coming. I apologize…
2. 6:09ashes of the parah adumah, which is humility and the mikvah water, which is a return…
3. 12:14that. Because the the disease, the medical disease that used to be called leprosy, that name…
4. 18:18If, however, there is both the requisite shade of white and the requisite size, so the…
5. 24:30So, the ikar cheit of tzaraas is lashon hara. Now, you might ask the obvious question,…
6. 30:40the bones heal, especially if you're younger. >> [clears throat] >> The words don't always heal.…
7. 36:47that the whole experience of tzaraat is designed to awaken a person to a level of…
8. 42:59And that is a person is so hypersensitive to their aveiros that it crushes them and…
9. 49:07mean you do it in one day. It takes time. You got to build yourself up.…
10. 55:19very powerful midrash. The midrash tells us >> [snorts] >> that when Hashem said to Adam,…

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