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Ta'amei HaMitzvos | Weekly Shiur by Rav Asher Weiss Shlit"a (5785)

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Rabbi Asher Weiss

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The year tonight is dedicated of a very very special person and the site is tomorrow night. This is the mother of my dear friend Molinski who is with us here tonight and uh he's my brother. My name is Weiss. His name is Olinsky. But in a way, we're brothers, not biological brothers, but very, very close. And he's of tremendous help. So the sh tonight is dedicated of mother. She should be for the amazing family. She was a Holocaust survivor. And these survivors like my own parents, how they found the courage and the strength and the amuna after all they went through to build life again and to establish families of dedicated good Jews. So she should be a medication for the entire family. So the topic we will be discussing today is a huge but I will only touch upon some fundamentals and that is and the significance the significance of tama mitzvah and we will be dealing with a broad spectrum mitzvah that the toa clearly says says what is the motive and the reasoning of the mitzvah mitzvah in which explain what is the motive and the reasoning mitzvah in which we find in the how much weight does zam have when we come to dictate so there is a huge controversy between the raam and the rashb and many have the shin involved. Are we supposed to try to understand mitzvah or not? at the end of and the Rambam ends each and every one of the 14 of Mishna probably you're aware of that that the last and every cipher is not only clear it is and MS and that is the of every safer so the end of Hilus that speaks about his

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