Mattos/Masei: "This is the Matter!" & Not So Random Tidbits

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

So para illuminated for another double para matos mass which brings us to the end of the book of Aidbar. So I hope to share a an idea from Paras Matoss plus an idea from Paras Masi. Actually more than one idea but one topic from each para and I uh I'm guilty of uh not really getting past the first puck of each para or the first uh it's not quite each para or the first uh it's not quite true. We're going to get past the first pic. Well past the first Pik, but we're going to it's going to be the first topic from Pares Matoss and then the first topic from Paras Mas. So Paras Matoss begins with um and really actually an interesting beginning because it begins with Moshe speaking to the heads of the tribes. It doesn't say and Hashem said to Moshe. Um it begins with Moshe speaking and saying this is what Hashem says. this is what Hashem says. said and then giving the instructions of the laws of nidarus of oaths and vows and uh and that's how the para begins and the first verse in the para it's lid chapter 30 and uh and Moshe spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel saying this is the thing that God has commanded this is the thing that God has commanded that the Lord has commanded and then he goes on to talk about the laws of vows. Now Rashi picks up on the language zahavar. This this is the thing that gag is commanding and rashi notes that we don't find such language by other prophets says rashi. We find Moshe using language such as so

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2. 4:07and that's expressed said by the words this is the matter. This is it. This is…
3. 8:14vowed to eat. Once I take the vow, then I've created a new mitzvah, a new…
4. 12:22nullified himself before God that he was able to achieve such spiritual heights and such levels…
5. 16:32to make sure to counter any any thoughts a person might have that all the mitzvah…
6. 20:44and I want we will read through some of it in a moment but I want…
7. 24:51angered me." And uh and it lists off those places. So the question I would pose…
8. 29:03went to Midbari. Then they went from Midarina and they went to Kra Satava. And that's…
9. 33:10recognize them enough and and let them impact the way that we lived. Um the medric…
10. 37:22that um of the of the of Egypt. And and he says that cooled them off…

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