Torah's Power: Fire and Hammer Shattering Stone

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

The says, "My words are like a fire, says Hashem." And like a hammer shatters a stone. When you bring a hammer down onto a stone, the stone shatters into a million little pieces. And I understand why we're referring to the word of Hashem as a fire. It shines. It's bright. It provides warmth. It provides clarity. But in what way are the words of Hashem like a stone and especially one that's like a stone and especially one that's shattered by a hammer? And the answer is that in every word of Torah is a message that can spread in so many different directions being relevant to people of all ages and all backgrounds and throughout all the ages of Amarel's history. It is relevant to a farmer from a thousand years ago and to a nuclear physicist from just today. Each of those people will be able to take a sliver of

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