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Vaeschanan - It's not about me | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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and welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we give you a little insight into the para to help to make it a little more accessible for you. And uh this uh this is a double you get this weekan and av I'm going to put the two of them together but don't worry I'm still going to do av next week that doesn't not going to exclude me. Yeah, I just want to uh uh take an idea that you find and one of my favorite mus puts these two one of my favorite mus puts these two together. So I want to do it for you as well. Yeah. In this week's paral. When God brings you into the land that he promised you into houses that you didn't build but called houses filled with all good shalom which you didn't fill uh sistns already dug which you didn't uh sistns already dug which you didn't dig olive orchards and uh vineyards that you didn't plant and you eat and you become full. Be careful. Be careful that you don't forget God. So it says it sounds sometimes when we're doing these first parios invarim that it gets repetitive and he contrasts

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  1. 0:00and welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we give you a little…
  2. 0:31one of my favorite mus puts these two together. So I want to do it for…
  3. 1:02uh sistns already dug which you didn't dig olive orchards and uh vineyards that you didn't…
  4. 1:34that it gets repetitive and he contrasts this with next week's para Be careful you don't…
  5. 2:06these great houses that you're sitting in. You'll have gold and silver and sheep and cattle.…
  6. 2:38see the first one says you're going to come into and you're going to have so…
  7. 3:08a it says be careful lest you sit down and enjoy all this good stuff and…
  8. 3:39everything and they're asking me why and he said to me ask them if they asked…
  9. 4:12will take it away from us to remind us that God is God and not us.…

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