Rabbi YY Jacobson discusses the interface between the infinite and the temporal on Rosh Hashanah.
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okay good morning everybody welcome welcome back to all of you and to myself someone is bringing thank you we're going to begin a new M today naturally from which is also on the theme of from which is also on the theme of R generally many of the are already from the middle of focus on especially the last few weeks in so this is a m which is this week's para and the theme is is very much connected to r as we will see so please turn to page 91 on top of say [Music] page 91 the M this discourse this m was said by the Al by the bat on chabas which was the shabas before it's always the shabas before in the year t before in the year t which means 1803 so that's exactly 221 years ago right yeah exactly 221 years ago in the year the last shab is before the exact date was I'm looking in the footnotes here shabas the 23rd of 1803 the shabas before which began 1804 which would be exactly 200 years ago I mean 220 years ago but this was 221 years ago it focuses on a very famous P everybody knows this P the tah says was speaking to the Jewish people in par of course this is the last days before his own passing and he says even if you his own passing and he says even if you don't know it from the from the T you maybe know it from the song this mitvah that I am instructing you today I'm commanding you today it's not Beyond you it's not a wondrous phenomenon and reality that is is completely aloof from you it's not distant from you it's not remote this mitvah is not wondrous and it's not
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