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  Anna L -3 years ago

  Thank you for the wonderful, deep and insightful lecture on Parshat Yitro.  The reference to 600000 letters of the Torah / 600000 souls at the Mt. Sinai triggered my further research that brought me to the following discovery:
  There are "5,888 or 5,845 verses in the Torah."
  I'm quoting this website : 

  https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/44230/how-many-words-are-there-in-tanach

  So a couple of questions here:
  1. So how many verses are really there?  5888 or 5845?

  2. Why the discrepancy?

  3. Do you think that this number gives us a hint regarding Moshiah's arrival?
  Thank you once again for your continous flow of wisdom!

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  Gelly -3 years ago

  thanks for all these classes. I always enjoy these types of classes.

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  Sara -3 years ago

  If we are all witnesses

  which is what GD says, and Torah is the document we have to refer to , then we should all be able to serve as a witness, no? 

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  Sara Metzger -3 years ago

  Someone commented

  They way we approach the position and task assigned to us can determine how we handle the engagement of activity and the result that will either produce hundred, sixty or thirtyfold.

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  Alter -3 years ago

  A witness may have his memory jogged by a document he wrote

  When Hashem testifies to us at Har Sinai as what He did 7 weeks earlier in Mitztrayim,  is He testifying as a witness relying on a document (the Torah)? 

  I suppose He qualifies as a Talmud Chocham for whom the rules about testifying are relaxed.  

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  Sara -3 years ago

  If we are (all) witnesses (according to GD)

  why then is it only the tzaddikim that can testify without necessarily remembering at first the event or even be reminded by the litigant?

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    Alter -3 years ago

    There are witnesses who remember without a trigger, who need a little trigger and others who need to be reminded of the story.

    Some souls need no reminding about yetzias mitrayim, some need a little trigger and others who have no independent recollection.  

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  Sara -3 years ago

  HIS plan was that

  we are divine!!! But he gave us all our challenges, our natures, the human nature, the thing that has flaws, the thing that we have to overcome. The dissonance was injected by Who? By us? Did GD put that into the reality? Wasn't that dissonance part of HIS plan?

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    Alter -3 years ago

    See parsha Berashis regarding the snake.

    We are Divine, yes, but not divine robots with no free choice or temptations. That would defeat the purpose. 

    The "kuntz" is to overcome the yetzer, the snake, the temptations. 

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  Sara Metzger -3 years ago

  Can you explain...

   the part about us “not having intermediaries:? GD is who we are supposed to talk to. No intermediaries, and yet we are “allowed”? to have a tzaddik pray for us eg. Moshe Rabbeinu was like an intermediary, the Rebbe too, and other tzaddikim. How can that be ok if we are supposed to talk to GD directly?

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    Alter -3 years ago

    We daven to Hashem directly and also ask people alive or not to daven for us, on our behalf, to be messengers for us.

    In the chevra Kadisha (burial prep group) we ask that the mais (deceased) be a "Melitz yosher" a good intermediary for us

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  cirel lipskier -3 years ago

  Interesting that Rav Kahana lived during the same time as Rav Ashi

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    Alter -3 years ago

    Hello Auntie.

    Regards to  your dear husband.  

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• Anonymous -3 years ago

  Question for Rabbi

  Dear Rabbi,

  Can you say something what we can learn about this week when 3 big Rabunim passed away in the same day, and all in Yerushilayim, intrasting that one was from the Yeshivash's world, and one from the Litvishe and one from the Chasedisha world. also can it be that it was a sign of mercy from Hashem?  and BTW. my grandftaher who is still alive and lives in Jerusalem says a story that when he was a child one of the big tzadikim said that there was suposed to be a big decree that year in israel and instead Hashem took away the decree and there will be a massive snow storm, and he remembers the snow storm which was pesach time, so i was wondering if the snow in America (which mainly hit NY where is a big Jewish crowd) is also a sign of mercy,

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    CHAIM -3 years ago

    it means that all three of the rabbonim had baruch hashem ARUCHAS YAMIM ,all of them passed away in their nineties and had a long and fruitfull life.

    As far as the 18" of snow here in the northeast of the U.S,is a sign for the happy kinderlech that there is no school for that day (my great grandchildren were absolutely delighted)

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Women's Class Sefas Emes Yisro

Rabbi YY Jacobson

• February 2, 2021
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• 20 Sh'vat 5781
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• 1523 views

Classes in this Series

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  Womens class

  Tuesday Women's Class

  Tuesday, May 7, 9:30 am
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  1 hr 37 min

  NEW!

  Women's Pesach Class

  How We Develop Our Coping Mechanisms and How We Set Ourselves Free

  The 4 Cups and 4 Sons Are Four Steps to Emotional Liberation: My Divine Soul, My Animal Soul, Seeing Through the Facade, Emancipation From My Brainy Self
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  1 hr 46 min

  NEW!

  Women's Pesach Class

  Can You Be Grateful for Each of Your ‘Four Children’? Can You Listen to the 4 Children Inside of You?

  Our Children Are Asking the Questions We All Struggle With Internally
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  1 hr 46 min

  NEW!

  Women's Pesach Class

  Can You Be Grateful for Each of Your ‘Four Children’? Can You Listen to the 4 Children Inside of You?

  Our Children Are Asking the Questions We All Struggle With Internally
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  1 hr 20 min

  Tzav Women's Class

  How You Can Use Your Darkness to Light up the World

  What They Did With the Ashes on the Altar Teaches Us What to Do with Our Darker Sides
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  1 hr 36 min

  Purim Women's Class

  How Queen Esther’s Banner of Pride Can Transform Every Victim’s Narrative

  The Untold Purim Story: The First Female Abuse Victim Who Dared to Speak Out
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  1 hr 46 min

  Women's Purim Class

  The Most INSANE Purim Story: When Rabah “Slaughtered” the Ego of Reb Zeira

  How Do I Find Bliss in My Challenging Life? On Purim, Two Sages Provided the Answer
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  1 hr 48 min

  Parshas Shekalim Women's Class

  The Last Lecture of the Lubavitcher Rebbe: How to Love

  Why Is It So Hard to Serve G-d With Bliss? How to Love Your (True) Self & the Other
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  1 hr 29 min

  Women's Ki Sisa Class

  Can You Give Yourself A Standing Ovation for Showing Up? Learning to Appreciate Ourselves

  The Beauty of the Golden Calf: When G-d "Learnt" Not to Take His People for Granted
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  1 hr 50 min

  Adar/Purim Katan Women's Class/Joy

  How to Live in Bliss: If I Can’t Feel the Pain, I Can’t Feel the Joy

  Why Didn’t Jews Lose Their Faith? Reb Akiva, Eli Wiesel, and the Rebbe
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  1 hr 22 min

  Women's Mishpatim Class

  Why Do I Crave Compliments? Why Does My Ego Require Constant Resuscitation?

  The Unpaid Guardian & the Bliss in Letting Go of My Ego Entirely
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  1 hr 46 min

  Yisro Women's Class/ Israel-Hamas War

  Why You Should Be a Proud Jew Today: Crash Course on Jewish History

  Three Truths that Inspired Yisro to Join Israel