Moses’ First and Final Act: Outreach - Parsha Ki Savo - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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

[Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] good evening and welcome to all around the world who are joining us this evening i want to welcome especially all of our viewers on col welcome to all and i'm pleased to announce that in our ever continuous attempt to saturate the world and the globe with torah study so we will begin a new series on the hasidic classic likutetera the great hasidic work by rabbi schneider zalman of lyadi the founder of chabad this wednesday evening join us at 8 30 pm as the term for outreach for reaching out to other people to other jews who invented this term tonight we're going to explore moses's first and final act outreach kiruf it's a story about three rebels rauvein batya and miriam and it begins with a very intriguing madrashic interpretation you shall be blessed in your coming in and you shall be blessed in your going out on this there is a madrashic commentary what is perturbing the madrish and here i want to explain to you something the midrash which is the compilation of generations and generations of commentary traditions stories interpretations explanations on the bible on the torah is not created in a vacuum an interpretation is justified only when there's something disturbing when there's something that's incomprehensible about the biblical verse hence the need for a deeper interpretation what was perturbing the midrash in this case so the midrash commentators explain it's the order of the verse

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1. 5:32blessing comes also to embody and capture his own life story who is blessed and is…
2. 10:08not basia although the common name today is basia or batiya who was bissia the daughter…
3. 14:46away why is he called moritz [Laughter] has one were both rebels he rebelled against the…
4. 19:32to the end and we have borochata but this is a very different story but once…
5. 24:12he was somewhat excommunicated jacob tells him this on his deathbed jacob says but he'll remind…
6. 28:51the jewish people continue the people the nation is perpetuated because of whom because of this…
7. 33:28acknowledge together the ethics and the morality and the values that come from one god one…
8. 38:42both elements the non-jews the entire world all the nations from all cultures and civilizations and…
9. 43:25of his son of michael's lottery what's his great merit rep itsukul told him my son…

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