Parshas Naso with Reb Chaim Kramer

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The opening of this shiur, in BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Shalom Aleichem. Welcome to the Breslov Parshah Shiur. This week we have Shavuos and the end of the week - Shabbos - is Parshas Naso. Parshas Naso has several components to it. One starts off counting the families of Gershon and Merari - the Levites who used to carry the Mishkan when they used to travel in the desert. Following that, we have a part which talks about someone who steals, especially from a non-Jew - from a convert. Someone steals from a convert, and the laws that apply to rectify that: returning that which was stolen and bringing sacrifices that are necessary to forgive for the sin. Then we come to the portion of the wanton woman (Sotah) - a woman who stealthily sleeps with another man. And this is called treason. It’s like treason - like a Jew who goes to another religion, or a Jew who goes to another type of cult - not the Torah. It’s called treason. So the whole Parshah, the Zohar explains, is relating to a person who goes off the path of Torah, like we take another husband. We, as a Jewish nation, are the bride of HaShem. And if we go to another place, then we’ve done wrong. We’ve done very wrong. It’s like adultery. Adultery - we’re giving up our connection with HaShem chas veshalom, and then we’re going over to a different place. This is what’s happening a lot. The Zohar calls it Bediku d’Eishes Chayil - that the whole Parshah is referring to the Jews in

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1. 0:03Shalom Aleichem. Welcome to the Breslov Parshah Shiur. This week we have Shavuos and the end…
2. 1:15are necessary to forgive for the sin. Then we come to the portion of the wanton…
3. 2:21wrong. We’ve done very wrong. It’s like adultery. Adultery - we’re giving up our connection with…
4. 3:29is the exile and the trials and tribulations that the Jewish nation goes through during their…
5. 4:41this are the bitter waters that the wanton woman has to take for being unfaithful to…
6. 5:45Cavemen. That’s all they are - nothing more than cavemen. They live in caves. There’s no…
7. 6:52to drink wine. He’s going to stay sober. And yet - why is this put next…
8. 8:04who was the High Priest at the beginning of the Second Temple, he said he never…
9. 9:21it speaks about the presidents (Nesi’im) of the tribes - the sacrifices that they brought when…
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