powerful and deep. Korach and his cronies call out from the depths to this day: Moshe Emes v'Soraso Emes.

thank you for being a partner in Torah and spreading Torah tavlin

I’m going to the dentist in a hour! Hashgacha lol

great story

may his neshama have an aliyah

17:25 it’s clearly going on what they do and they base it off the tur. What’s the problem?

16:30 י״ל כי כונותו הוא שיהא מגולה לפי הט״ז בסק״י וע״כ לא חששו שמא יאפה וכו׳. עכ״פ עיין. ט״ז סק״ט.

amazing

may Hashem reveal all the tov soon

its the semicha of our rabonim that keeps us on track

the census still has the same purpose lol

If it makes her happy, yes.

Does that thing to last? If I bought my wife cheesecake for Yom tov, would that count?

BH! Amazing to learn Bikkurim! Thanks so much Rav !

our purpose in the world: do justice.

interesting tie-in to Bava Metziah!

so we see from hear that the Yerushalmi holds of bittul chametz

great shiur

They don't make them like they used to.

The history of Israel commences with God's covenant with Abraham in approximately 2000 B.C., "I will make you into a great nation" (Genesis 12:2). The name "Israel" (meaning either "one who fights victoriously with God" or "a prevailing prince with God") comes from the new name God gave Abraham's grandson Jacob, after Jacob withstood a spiritual struggle at Jabbok (Genesis 32:28). It is at this point that the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are often referred to as the "Children of Israel." Its Selection as a Special Nation The history of Israel goes back even further than 2000 BC. In fact, the selection of Israel as a special nation was part of God's plan from the beginning of time. God's choice of Israel as His "chosen people" did not lie in any special size, nature or attraction. Actually, the nation of Israel was the least in number among all the nations (Deuteronomy 7:6-8). Rather, God chose these people because of His love for them and His unconditional covenant with Abraham. This doesn't mean that God loved Israel more than other people, it was just that He intended to use Israel as His means to love and bless everyone. It was God's plan from the beginning to bring forth the Messiah through Israel to act as the savior for the entire world. 🌎 The Biblical Record The history of Israel as detailed in the Bible encompasses around 1800 years. It proclaims a dynamic account of God's miracles, judgments, promises, and blessings. Israel begins as a unilateral promise to one man, Abraham. For more than 400 years, Abraham and his descendants rely on that promise, even during a significant period of slavery in Egypt. Then, by means of an amazing series of miraculous events, God delivers the Israelites of out Egypt in the Exodus (Hebrew: "a going out"). The Exodus is the occasion that most Jews look to as the foundation of the nation of Israel. The Exodus is the act of deliverance which Israelites dwell on as the demonstration of God's love and protection of Israel. Once the Exodus was completed, God established a conditional covenant with the Israelites at the Mountain of Sinai. It is there that God proclaimed His Law (the Ten Commandments). It is there that God promises blessings for adherence to His Law and curses for noncompliance. The rest of Israel's history as recorded in the Bible is a continuing cycle of blessing and punishment for Israel's obedience and disobedience to God's Law. Throughout times of victory and defeat, king and judges, priests and prophets, restoration and exile - the Israelites are blessed when they obey God and disciplined when they do not. As a nation, Israel was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D. At that time, the Jews scattered throughout the whole world, keeping the hope based on prophetic promises of an eventual regathering to the chosen land God gave to Israel. In 1948, after almost 1900 years had passed, Israel was again declared a sovereign nation and officially reestablished in the promised land. Through a series of miraculous events, including the Jews retaking of Jerusalem in 1967, this generation is witnessing the fulfillment of prophecy with respect to God's special nation. God's Ultimate Purpose Why is so much of the Bible focused on the history of Israel and the future of its people? Why was one nation called out as "God's chosen people"? These questions are answered when we examine God's ultimate purpose for Israel. When God made His unconditional promise to Abraham that He would make his descendants a great nation, God also promised to bless all people through that nation (Genesis 12:1-3). Therefore, Israel was never considered a sole recipient of God's blessings, but rather, a channel for God's blessings to all mankind. God's miracles for Israel, such as their dramatic deliverance from Egypt, were intended not only for the Israelites themselves, but as evidence of God's absolute power and uniqueness for a watching polytheistic world (Exodus 7:5; 14:18; Joshua 2:9-11). The Messiah that would come through the nation of Israel was always intended to be the Savior for all mankind (Isaiah 49:6). The Old Testament also contains many invitations to the entire world to come and worship the one living God in Israel (Psalm 2:10-12; 117:1). Based on recent events in the Holy Land, it is clear that God's promise to Abraham is still being fulfilled. Accordingly, God's promise to bless all peoples through Israel is still absolutely apparent. The teaching, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the growth and influence of His church, were made possible through God's choice of Israel as His people. All people who accept Jesus as their Messiah, whether Jew or Gentile, receive the great blessings of God channeled through His chosen people, the nation of Israel. WHAT DO YOU THINK? We have all sinned and deserve God’s judgment. God, the Father, sent His only Son to satisfy that judgment for those who believe in Him. Jesus, the creator and eternal Son of God, who lived a sinless life, loves us so much that He died for our sins, taking the punishment that we deserve, was buried, and rose from the dead according to the Bible. If you truly believe and trust this in your heart, receiving Jesus alone as your Savior, declaring, "Jesus is Lord," you will be saved from judgment and spend eternity with God in heaven. What is your response? Yes I want to follow Jesus . I am follower of Jesus. I still have questions.

very interesting

beautiful

Thanks for never giving up on making videos. I know few views can be discouraging. The few find the unpopular knowledges.

thank you for providing a "window" into the daf

Rabbi Rivkin was my cousin

Shalom Rabbi how are you? I love your content! Any chance you can please resend me the bava kama toseftas?

Sundials measure solar hours (very close to clock hours), not shaos zemanios

So this whole passage is about moving water from a jug to another ?

You are completely insane...

Thank you so much for doing this:)

Shalom rabbi, is there videos for the rest of the sefer by chance? I love ir videos!

Recommendations for those seeking to convert to Judaism? Afraid to ask a Rebbe as I have heard one can be turned away multiple times. In the meantime what are good rules for a gentile to live a righteous life? Thank you for the videos as always. +1

I was wondering if you could give your thoughts on Noahides and Noahidism. Do you recommend this instead of full conversion for Goyim?

Chassidus tries to provide a religious experience. And make a religious life out of a constant stream of such experiences. Mussar tried to make a religious person, and therefore viewed each experience more like a marketing "impression". Few will buy the product because of one ad. But if you have many experiences, each leaving a tiny impression, the person's preference does change. There is much to be said to take this idea further, but it's already in R Avram Elya Kaplan zt"l's Shtei Derakhim. www.aishdas.org/raek/2derachim.pdf

I love this rabbi. Honest. Did his research. Looks to explain chabad instead of just attacking. I thought he was lubavitcher (a funny/sarcastic one)at some point. He also gives a bit of thought for very deep ideas that others attack.

It is quite hard to comprehend you since I don’t know Hebrew that well. You are switching to it back and forth too swiftly. It could be great if you separated your speech into two different sections, and set time codes in the video description. Just a suggestion.

Wow. Is he drunk? Speaking two completely different languages mangled together just sounds stupid.

you got to teach by slow speaking

One last thought... Personally, I feel that the Rambam's position is hard to defend mathematically, and even the majority of rishonim's opinion that HP includes all events in all people’s lives doesn’t exclude that many other events. This is because of the math that emerged from Chaos Theory. To explain: The law of large numbers is the idea that if the probability of flipping a coin and getting heads is .5, then if you flip enough fair coins, you are likely to get numbers closer to 1/2 of them coming up heads. That only works for the small minority of aggregates where there are no feedback loops, so that each coin toss is independent. In systems that have such loops, Chaotic results - in which a small, even unmeasurable, change in starting conditions could make large differences in outcome. Thus, the proverbial “Butterfly Effect” - the tiny input of whether or not a butterfly flapped its wings in Africa could change whether or not there is a tornado in Missouri impacting thousands of lives. All events interact and interplay. The vast majority of systems in the messy real world are chaotic, and nearly everything (if not actually everything) involving humans is. If there were anything whose final outcome wasn’t influenced by HQBH, how could there be anything impacting a person who merited hashgachah peratis whose final outcome was? (Which is also how I can believe that people have free will in terms of what they do, but can have bitachon that everything that occurs to them is hashgachah. A person has the choice to interject one vector into the mix; weaving them into a total package is Hashem’s orchestration.)

שיעור נפלא כבוד הרב

Why is טבילת עזרה important? Is it just our imagination of cleaning?

My grandfather was Morris 'Kagan' (Cohen at Ellis Island) who left Lithuania in 1903 never to see his family again. Thank you for this great, informative presentation

Hi rebbi!

Lol what a jew. How about you address the greed of your people?

It seems from seif 20 that they were wearing tefillin on chol Hamoed which seems strange cuz most litfishe people don’t do that. Also whe I was learning the earlier seifim which talk about a beis yad which you translate as a glove I thought it might mean a handle which seems to make those seifim make more sense

Reb Nachum J. Stone commented on the video: I watched your video last night. Excellent presentation of complex topics. Regarding the lechi extensions: I helped Rabbi Heinemann build the Baltimore eruv about 40 years ago (wow!). At the time, his proof for the lechi off to the side [the side-top-wire lechi] was a Gemara in Menachos that allows for extension handles for the machtah [the pan for the ketores]. Obviously, it would have been added from the side [viz., lashed on to the original]. As to a lechi wrapping around a utility pole, we were using heavy rubber tubing split in half, which we ran up the electric poles. Sometimes we would wrap around the pole: 1) to avoid obstacles; or 2) if we wanted/needed the wire to be on the other side of the pole, or 3) if the wire we were using was on the other side, but we didn’t have good access to it. Rabbi Heinemann felt that as long as the tubing was contiguous, it was considered straight and a kosher lechi even if it wrapped 270 degrees around the pole in the “third dimension.” Rabbi Heinemann said that Rabbi Moshe Feinstein accepted both of his chiddushim, although it is said that when Reb Moshe was asked to verify this, he said something about she’as ha’dechak.

haRambam has a commentary on the Yerushalmi. Just for some of Berakhoth though

Nasty rats, vile creatures these bagel biting devils

Thanks for the great chizuk. I believe in kabalos and that they can make a difference

Mazel tov. From dannyk