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Tu B’Av 5772 Part Eight

Transcribed by: Transcription for Everyone: I often tell this story how my father used music, The Four Seasons, to teach me how to read a passuk. But not everyone can appreciate music; some people appreciate art. My daughter,

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Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvah 419-Concept 76-Shema-Commentary

Blessings before the Shema: The recitation of the Shema is preceded by a two blessings, the first of which is quite long, so much so that people assume it is more than one blessing. The first blessing—which begins “Creator of Light”—

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Tu B’Av 5772 Part Seven

Transcribed by: Transcription for Everyone: How hard has it been for the United States to "seal" its border with Mexico? Audience Member: Impossible. Rav Simcha Weinberg: So what do you think Yerovam ben Nevat,

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Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvot 426-7 – Concepts 57 & 164

Transcribed and unedited: Mitzvah/Concept number fifty seven - (Mitzvah 426-Parashat Vaetchanan) is that you may not do favors for idol worshippers. Question, is this only idol worshippers or is this non-jews as well? Number fifty eight,

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Tu B’Av 5772 Part Six

Transcribed by: Transcription for Everyone: So if the Jewish people are walking around saying, oy you know, we suffered so much, the Beis Ha'mikdash and the next Beis Ha'mikdash and Beitar and the Greeks and the Romans

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Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvah 419-Concept 76-Shema II

Transcribed and unedited: So the first section was the laws of – Audience: “Kriyat Shema.” Kriyat Shema, right. Now there is one commandment in the laws of Kriyat Shema it is a positive commandment and that positive commandment is

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Tu B’Av 5772 Part Five

Transcribed by: Transcription for Everyone: But the final stage, the Tu b'Av , is, well, we are about to go into the Land of Israel. We're not going to have a Moshe Rabbeinu who's going to give us any direct law, we're going to have

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Parsha Mitzvot-Vaeschanan-Mitzvah 416 – Concept 22 – Talmud Torah Part Two

Transcribed and unedited: According to the Rambam there are two mitzvoth in Hilchot Talmud Torah, and they are to learn and teach Torah - or actually to teach and learn Torah - and the other is to honor those who learn Torah and those

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Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvah 418-Concept 22-Blessing of Torah-Finding Our Portion

“This is the decree of the Torah, which God has commanded (Numbers 19:2).” Chukat, decree, but also used to described a person's portion of sustenance, is the Torah;each of us must find our sustenance in and from the Torah. (Divrei Binah; Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov of Bialah)

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Tu b’Av 5772 Part Four

Transcribed by: Transcription for Everyone: But now we have the best reason of all. You ready? The most exciting, the most compelling, the most powerful reason of all why the 15^th of Av should be a festival and a festival equal to Yom Kippur

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Tu b’Av 5772 Part Three

Transcribed by: Transcription for Everyone: The third reason is that the Jews, in the 38 years that they were wandering the desert waiting to die out, serve out the term of the sentence of 40 years to die in the desert -- so every year

Tu b’Av 5772 Part Two

Transcribed by: Transcription for Everyone: Next opinion is that this is the generation of the pilegesh b'Giva. Are you all familiar with the story of pilegesh b'Giva, the concubine at Giva? Okay, you've got to know.

Tu B’Av 5772-Part One

Transcribed by: Transcription for Everyone: I'm going to begin by reading a Gemara to you from Taanis, at the end of Taanis. It's on lamed amud beis, 30b. And then I would like to give you my read of this Gemara and what it is that

Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvah 416 – Concept 22 – Talmud Torah Part One

Transcribed & unedited: Listen to the Rambam, “in the same way that a person is obligated to teach his son Torah, so is the person obligated to teach a grandchild Torah. And not only a child or a grandchild, but there is a mitzvah on every Jew

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Parsha Mitzvot-Vetchanan-Mitzvah 419-Concept 76-Shema I

Transcribed by Daniel Goldman: Now we begin the sh’ma. The first sentence of the paragraph is that we should love God. Now that you know that God loves us, God says to us, “I want it to be a two way relationship. I want you to love Me.

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Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvah 417-Concept 4-Loving God

“You shall love God, your Lord, with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your resources.” There are numerous other mentions of the commandment to love God throughout the bible. It is a theme that is touched upon by all the prophets:

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Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvot 420-1 – Concepts 79-80 The Tefillin of the Master

Why is it so essential that we do not lose our focus on, and awareness of, our Tefillin, while wearing them? God wears Tefillin just as we do. What is written in God’s Tefillin” “Who is like My nation, Israel, a singular nation upon the earth?”

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Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvot 420-1 – Concepts 79-80:Tefillin Upon Entering a Synagogue

The Radbaz was asked to explain the custom in his day of putting to Tefillin on at home and walking, with them on, to the synagogue.

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Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvah 416-Concept 3-Unity

The Torah and its commandments are a reflection of God because they are the deepest expression of His revealed Will. As we study God’s Unity in its many layers we will see how these layers, and in fact all the commandments

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The Seven Levels of Nechama – Level One – The System

I am making an assumption which is that if this is where we learn how G-d comforts us, then all of the laws of Neechum Avaylim, comforting mourners, have to be here as well. Since this is where we learn how G-d comforts us,

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Parsha Mitzvot-VaEtchanan- Mitzvah 421-Concept 79-Tefillin As Teachers

Generations of people fell into the trap of idol worship, until Abraham came and taught the world about God, One, Unified and All-Powerful. God wanted Abraham to know that his teachings, which fixed the world, empowered his descendants

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Parsha Mitzvot-VaEtchanan-Mitzvah 420 – Concept 80-Tefillin On The Hand

“Bind them as a sign on your hand, and let them be tefillin between your eyes.” Tefillin are your wedding ring. When you wrap the tefillin around our hands, you say: “I will betroth you to Me forever, and I will betroth you to Me

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Kinah 1 - Readings: Motivation

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Amidah-Tisha b’Av-Yerushalayim-Eternal Experiences

“And Malkitzedek, King of Shalem (Genesis 14:18),” Malkitzedek, who was Shem the son of Noach, named the place Shalem. Avraham, however, called the place, “Hashem yireh (See Genesis 22:14). Therefore, God said,

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Tools-10th of Av-The Seeds of Salvation

The Kobriner visited his teacher, Rabbi Mordechai of Lecovitz, on Rosh Chodesh Elul. TheLecovitzer handed him a piece of fruit from Israel, and said to him, paraphrasing, “Go in this, your might, and save Israel (Judges 6:14),”

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Amidah-Tisha b’Av-Kibutz Galuyot-Gathered in Honor

“Sound the great shofar for our freedom, raise the banner to gather our exiles and speedily gather us together from the four corners of the earth to our Land.” The opposite of being gathered in a besieged city is the ingathering

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Readings: Kinot

Readings II: Kinot

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Tu B’Av 5772 Part Eight

Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvah 419-Concept 76-Shema-Commentary

Tu B’Av 5772 Part Seven

Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvot 426-7 – Concepts 57 & 164

Tu B’Av 5772 Part Six

Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvah 419-Concept 76-Shema II

Tu B’Av 5772 Part Five

Parsha Mitzvot-Vaeschanan-Mitzvah 416 – Concept 22 – Talmud Torah Part Two

Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvah 418-Concept 22-Blessing of Torah-Finding Our Portion

Tu b’Av 5772 Part Four

Tu b’Av 5772 Part Three

Tu b’Av 5772 Part Two

Tu B’Av 5772-Part One

Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvah 416 – Concept 22 – Talmud Torah Part One

Parsha Mitzvot-Vetchanan-Mitzvah 419-Concept 76-Shema I

Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvah 417-Concept 4-Loving God

Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvot 420-1 – Concepts 79-80 The Tefillin of the Master

Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvot 420-1 – Concepts 79-80:Tefillin Upon Entering a Synagogue

Parsha Mitzvot-Vaetchanan-Mitzvah 416-Concept 3-Unity

The Seven Levels of Nechama – Level One – The System

Parsha Mitzvot-VaEtchanan- Mitzvah 421-Concept 79-Tefillin As Teachers

Parsha Mitzvot-VaEtchanan-Mitzvah 420 – Concept 80-Tefillin On The Hand

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