Torah Crash Course: Part 1 with Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (2019)

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

so good evening everybody it's so wonderful to be here at the Torah center and the first of our five week course on a crash course through the Torah and we're going to hopefully cover all five books of the Torah everyone will get a summary of each book of the Torah and the timeline and that way it'll be much easier for us to all follow along but before we do that we have to understand what is the Torah why is the Torah you what is the Torah why is the Torah you know even if we before we even talk about the Torah let's talk about you know what's the purpose of creation why did I shall create a world Shemin great created such an amazing world he gave the world so much blessing for what purpose why do we need a world and the answer is because Hashem wanted to do good first creations like hate even Bri Asif our sages tell us that the purpose Asif our sages tell us that the purpose of all creation was so that God can do good for us yet we see that there are many who face many challenges and those challenges include illnesses and pain and suffering of many kinds and you know what's the purpose of that so we have to understand them we talk about this a lot on a Monday night class the reason for our lives why God gives us life why God gives us such a lofty neshama but today

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2. 5:52machine right so we're gonna open up the gonna go to the gas station and I'm…
3. 12:09works so is it a book of laws it's not a book of laws either either…
4. 18:28that includes and it's eleven books in in writings that Psalms proverbs job Song of Songs…
5. 24:31for for an answer several years and then just learn it yeah that is amazing thank…
6. 30:45depth of the Torah is endless Ruka carats Medora Hovik many young there's no it's so…
7. 37:02why is it called the Hamish I'd you see here Andy why is it called the…
8. 42:49right your honor right there's no speed limit in that area you say oh yes there…
9. 49:04the Torah it is a given already all right it's not it's not referring to the…
10. 55:22earlier what and it's exactly the size that was smaller than New Jersey as itty bitty…

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