The Sin Golden Calf & How Moshe, Moses Saved the Jewish People From Annihilation

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

we're going to study the para of T read it the Shabbat and interestingly the one para in all of the Kash since Moshe shows up in the story there's only one para that doesn't have his name in it at all and it's this para t meaning of course he's not around in the beginning because it's not his time yet but as soon as we start seot and Moshe is born we all we hear about is Moshe till the very last end of the is all Moshe giving the Jewish people blessings so Moshe comes on the on the scene and doesn't leave but there's one par that sticks out like and his name is not mentioned even once and the question is why why would Hashem leave out his name for one para so for this we have to appreciate a bit about what's going on historically in in in Moshe and get to know Moshe so what I want to use this as an opportunity to get to know Moshe the person so to speak if we can as much as we can so we we find in KES I think two times two times where Moshe argues with Hashem two times where mosha argues with Hashem one time in my opinion he lost the argument and one time thankfully so he seems like he won the argument so we'll start with the time he lost in the beginning ofra there's an interesting word the first word of that book the book of vayikra is written with a small letter alive the verse reads and God Called to Moshe to speak to him to give him the laws of the Torah and so in the word vayikra it's got an a shrunken Al it's

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1. 0:00we're going to study the para of T read it the Shabbat and interestingly the one…
2. 1:36called an Al a small Al not the regular size alive and that gets our attention…
3. 3:43most important thing that you in your life you know we person needs passports to get…
4. 5:19Hashem that one I think he lost as I said second place where he argues with…
5. 7:26Jewish people that's that's that's that's a Jewish leader with the with the taskmasters with the…
6. 8:56goes out of its way to tell us that Aon and mosha were equal don't think…
7. 11:03spiritual level you would think why am I going to put an animal on my shoulder…
8. 12:36eager to do the big sadik and Mos Feinstein a favor and he offered him a…
9. 14:41reach that place we will reach the sensitivity to be in hashem's world and appreciate the…
10. 16:15its own little book in the Torah the 20th one is T and the saer the…

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