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2025 Parashat Shofetim - Why is the redemption taking so long? (Zera Shimshon 8)

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Rabbi Yitzchak Sakhai

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Welcome back everyone to our weekly sh on the par with the par of the holy zer. Today we're doing parashatim the eth of the para. Um we have an incredible douch here before us with a few different explanations. Before we go on, may the for bring redemption for the for the hostages of Israel, may bring for the hostages of Israel, may bring them home to their family safely and Hashem should protect the soldiers of Am is um and the of should beh for those that are single to get married, for those that want children to have children. Um, and okay. So the so so the so we're going to we're going to kind of deal with this week's um week's um the para the of parhat umim is from yesahu perk alf the 51st perk and over there like so we have to understand as I said in chul those in is that from right after the Shabbat after until we have the seven weeks and these seven we have the seven weeks and these seven weeks are called the seven weeks of comfort. Why is it called that way? Because in these seven weeks we read different prophets during on Shabbat for the haft. And these excerpts from the prophets are all prophecies that were given as comfort to Israel from Hashem. There were prophecies given over to Israel letting them know that I am here. I am I I am them know that I am here. I am I I am going to save you. I'm going to redeem you from your long exile. So my children, my sons, my daughters be comforted. The first one of these start with the first week of these seven weeks, the Shabbat after which is called famously Shabbat. Why? Because it's the Shabbat of comfort. After four weeks before um we have

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  1. 0:01Welcome back everyone to our weekly sh on the par with the par of the holy
  2. 3:40that you'll be so comforted that you won't feel the pain of the past anymore. Because
  3. 7:48when is rebuilt I will say to you twice and that's the midash she says this
  4. 11:36remember inad we read this also when it comes to the of Egypt and Hashem bringing
  5. 15:42a flash like a thunder of kadusha and pull us out from the tuma. However, what
  6. 19:46world. So, it's an up and a down bum. You know, it's born, it gets up,
  7. 23:20somebody in my family asked me a few weeks ago said, you know, for years things
  8. 27:28you understand? >> Grandfather, >> your grandfather did. So, do do you understand? And this is
  9. 31:12light until you have full sunlight. [Music] And that's the puk that says, "And Hashem will
  10. 35:23that will be standing at the time will be Adom and Paras. They're going to be

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