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

We're going to go into a very deep idea. Uh it's going to be built off of a possuk in this week's parsha, parshas Vayethchanan. But we're going to go beyond the scope of the content of the parsha and really get into a talk of souls, a talk of the afterlife, the next world, olam haba, Gan Eden, uh the different dimensions and levels to our souls. Uh a lot to talk about. So, let's look at the possuk we're going to talk about. V'shamarta es hamitzvah v'es hachukim v'es hamishpatim asher v'es hachukim v'es hamishpatim asher Anochi metzavcha hayom la'asotam. And you will guard the commandment, hamitzvah. It's uh actually singular, the mitzvah. V'es hachukim, and the the mishpat, hachukim, the statutes, um v'es hamishpatim, these generally refer to civil laws, regular types of laws that we people come up with, you know, every country has them, uh civil law. Asher Anochi metzavcha hayom, that I Anochi, the same word used in the Ten Anochi, the same word used in the Ten Commandments, command you hayom, today, la'asotam, to do them, to fulfill them. This possuk is from Devarim, perek zayin, possuk yud aleph, the seventh chapter, 11th verse. Now, this possuk mentions the idea of mitzvos three times. Um hamitzvah, then the chukim, and the mishpatim. Now, this brings us to a a very uh

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