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Rabbi Moshe Haber Perashat Shemini. Beyond Guilt: The Elevated Path of Service and Sanctity 4.10.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  And the theme of Shimini is talking about our own coming
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  close and beginning to actually, I don't have the coin at all in
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  the corner in my sons beginning to actually serve in the better
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  Mikdash Kraba Lamaze bath is going to be certain in corporate
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  they're going to bring to get started serving the better
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  Mikdash or the Mishkan. We'll see about that.
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  And then it goes on to the enterprise to talk in depth.
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  Of course, in the middle, you have on this day that Aron
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  brought and called by not it was a beautiful day, but then I had
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  kind of a sad ending when two of our own sons passed away.
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  And there's a whole story about how Aron reacted.
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  We didn't react and the unique way that he handled that
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  challenge. And then you have afterwards the
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  Bashar goes on talking about certain laws that I was taught
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  right after that story happened. And there are different
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  opinions, some saying that those laws were connected to what
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  happened to his sons. In other words, it was
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  referencing his sons, so to speak, made a mistake in that
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  area. And therefore he's being taught
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  about how a grand should act, how they serve, don't serve with
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  wine, don't serve well, how do we drank wine recently,
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  etcetera. And then the pressure at the end
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  goes on to the laws of kashut, laws of kashut, of animals and
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  all the laws of kashut that we have today.
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  So there's a couple of points I wanted to bring out just this
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  morning. 1 is in the beginning and one is at the end.
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  In the beginning it starts like this.
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  Baebioma Shimini was on the 8th day.
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  On the 8th day, Karam Moshella, Aron le banal Moshella been who
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  calls out Aaron, who calls Aaron and his sons.
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  UL is the gnae sale and he calls them Ayoma El Aaron.
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  So now he calls Aaron his sons and the elders.
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  This a day is a day that the Mishkan was standing was erected
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  and it's a day that Aron will begin bringing this coconut to
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  inaugurate the Mishkan. Fiona El Aaron tell machetes
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  Aaron, take yourself and very specific egg bin bakala khatat
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  valiola tamima Val krevlifenation take an egg.
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  Now why specifically an egg? This is the Kubani has to bring
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  the sacrifices to bring to the Mishkan to inaugurate the
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  Mishkan. Why is Aron the Kohenga doll
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  bringing specifically of all animals a calf?
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  So she said something very important.
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  Aron always had his lingering sort of guilt, his lingering
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  doubt, and that is that he was somewhat implicit or somewhat
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  blamed for the Heta ego that happened with the Jewish people
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  a little prior. And because that when she had
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  told Aron, Hashem says the animal you need to bring today
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  on your big day and day of inauguration is an egg,
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  specifically the same animal, the same animal which was made
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  in gold as a terrible sin, the worst sin of all time for the
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  Jewish people, brings specifically that animal as your
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  Qurban. Why, says Hashi Laodia, so that
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  you know is accepting atonement through this animal for the sin
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  of the golden camp which happened prior.
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  You need to know and realize and feel comfortable with the fact
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  that your sin that you did earlier is gone.
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  Hashem is accepting a tournament through this new Quran and for
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  our own it was an encouragement for him to step forward.
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  Why encouragement? Because our own had a very
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  unique thing, had great Yiddish shamayim, great fear of heaven,
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  and he constantly was aware and nervous and felt the guilt for
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  the sin that he had been involved in and his entire life
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  on on his mind. There was that sin.
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  So Mashhad, I'm going to tell you, I don't, don't worry.
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  Don't be nervous. You've done enough to atone.
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  Hashem has accepted your atonement, has accepted you to
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  Shiva, accepted your feelings of guilt and bring this korban.
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  And with this it'll be finished and the story no longer any
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  guilt and you'll be fine. So they're really the theme of
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  inaugurating the Mishkan haron was a theme of Hashem accepting
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  him with love and bringing egil to atone for the egil.
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  Now the next bastu says this is a special day in Moshe.
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  Habenhaus says 2% came later. Ki ayom.
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  On this day. Hashem need Ah, I like him.
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  Hashem will appear to you. This is a special day.
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  When you're inaugurated to Mishkan.
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  Hashem will appear to you. Which is again telling you I
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  don't. If you do it right, you'll bring
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  the shahina down. All good.
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  Tell me. Yeah.
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  OK, now there's one more basuk to make our own comfortable.
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  To bring our own full circle is a basuk, says Ayo Moshe Azar de
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  Vashet Siva Hashem tasu. And then Moshe tells Aaron
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  again, doubling down. Karava Lamazbear, come close,
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  let's come close. We already told the Qurban Ardon
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  has to bring. We were told the Jewish people
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  are told. This is a special day.
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  We know we repeat it many times. What's Karava lamazbear?
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  So again, our own. We're struggling with this
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  issue. We're struggling with the guilt.
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  Karava Lamazbear means come close.
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  Do not be afraid. I don't really.
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  You need to understand your guilt is gone.
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  That sin is gone. Hashem is accepting the
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  atonement. Bring the eagle.
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  Bring the calf. Realize that this will atone.
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  Krava la mazbear means I don't. There's no reason for any guilt
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  anymore. Which means as much as a person
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  needs to feel bad for what they've done, do not allow you
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  to hold yourself back and be stepping forward.
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  Don't allow you. Yurat Shamayi was a beautiful
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  thing. I don't agree Yurat Shamayi.
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  And because of that, he was constantly feeling a sense of
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  guilt and a mindset of I did something wrong, I was involved
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  something wrong and it's my fault.
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  And that itself is a great thing.
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  But eventually, Karava lamazgar means come close.
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  Don't allow your guilt to hold you back from stepping forward.
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  How guilty should a person feel for what they've done in the
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  past? And the answer is this exact
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  level. Let it be there, let it sit
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  there. Let you have you out your mind
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  to feel like you did something wrong and you want to get rid of
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  it. But once you're debating if you
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  should step forward, the guilt should be gone and you should
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  step forward. Never allow your sense of doing
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  something wrong to hold you back from doing something right.
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  Should it be there the guilt? Sure.
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  Should you feel like you have to atone and fix things up and make
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  make up for it? Absolutely.
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  You said a funny comment, You feel funny about it.
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  Should you feel bad about that? Sure.
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  Should that hold you back from being around people the next
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  time and now not being comfortable talking because
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  you're nervous what you're going to say?
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  No, you, you know you miss praying and you feel bad for the
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  praying for the missing praying. Sure, that's good.
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  But should that in your mind tell you that you're a smaller
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  person, it's not worth your praying?
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  Absolutely not. You made a mistake, you
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  overslept one day and therefore you feel bad.
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  That's great. But should that tell you that
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  you have no shot and you never be able to pray properly because
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  you don't trust yourself anymore?
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  No, the level is guilt from the past, but nothing holding you
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  back from the future. Kravila Masbek meant come
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  closer, she says. Shia Aaron Bush Aaron was
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  ashamed via real legation and he was afraid of coming close to
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  them as bear a Marlo Moshe. Moshe told him La Mata Bush, why
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  you embarrassed? Why are you ashamed?
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  Why are you afraid? The car, Nevada, not only is
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  this the moment for you, this is the reason that you were born.
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  You were chosen for this. You were chosen for this moment.
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  Michelle Bana was giving out on a very strong boost of
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  encouragement. Forget the fears that you have.
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  Forget the guilt that you have. Forget the scary feeling in your
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  mind. Forget the fact that our rabbi
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  saw us. And I don't saw them as Bayach.
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  He saw his sin and he's very afraid.
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  No, no, no. It's the wrong mindset.
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  That's all we're doing in the guilt.
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  One for Qadish, the car, Nevharta, you were chosen for
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  this, said Moshe Aron. And this Foss tells us the
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  balance that every Jew needs to walk on when he thinks about the
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  fact that he might have made a mistake, but he also thinks
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  about the fact that he wants to do more good.
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  The balances carry guilt. Yes, allow the guilt to help you
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  shape up your mind, but never allow the guilt to hold you back
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  from being your potential. And it's a very constant theme.
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  There are those who never feel guilt.
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  That's the wrong thing. And there are those who are
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  leading with guilt. That's also the wrong thing.
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  You need to carry that balance. You recognize the past and your
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  power forward to the future. This is the theme and the
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  encouragement that my Shabbat, I was telling you, hold on.
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  Is it a hard balance? Sure.
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  It's one that says I never want to allow myself to be limited,
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  to be held back, to be in a sense, not my full potential
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  because of my past. No, I want myself instead to be
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  a stronger version of my potential.
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  And the stronger version will be I have an awareness of where I
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  might have fallen. I have someone, let's say, used
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  to always just be quicker to hit on these say things.
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  And now because of that, they realized I've made a lot of
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  mistakes in my life by just saying comments.
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  I got me into big trouble. So now I'm around people.
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  I'm nervous. I'm afraid I'm the ruler.
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  So because of that, they say nothing.
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  No good. Oh, good.
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  The better way is because of that.
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  They pause. They pause them a second.
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  All you need is to pause an instant and then they're back on
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  track. That's really the theme and the
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  importance of this moment followed on a grand and this was
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  his moment. This Hashem's eyes was maybe the
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  pinnacle on the highest point for I'm you still coming out of
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  Messiah was this day. It happens to be very
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  convenient. I believe this day was during
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  this season. Was it Roshani son?
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  Yeah, it was Roshani son. It was during the season that we
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  now it's was it 20 something days ago and it was a very
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  special day until of course I don't sons passed away because
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  the day he did was they went and served the Qurban after I don't
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  do what he did and that was problematic just to jump to the
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  end of the Pasha. The end of the Pasha talks about
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  the beauty of overall Jew and the need to keep kashut and the
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  Pasha ends what Hashem saying don't eat any bug because I am
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  Hashem who took you out of the same.
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  And the word that Hashem used when he says took you out of the
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  same, He says I elevated you out of the same.
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  I lifted you out of Egypt. What's that language?
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  I elevated you doesn't say I take you out.
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  Like I said it says it. It's the elevator.
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  I read you this point. Out the shock and sue enough
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  shot to him. Don't disgust, make yourself
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  disgusting. But while I share it, I sure
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  it's all the disgusting bugs that people would eat.
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  Lord Tamu by him. Do not become defiled and impure
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  from these things, continues Kiani Hashem.
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  I am a shame. Your God, the Hick dashed him,
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  the Hick Kaddish Tim, I sanctified you, the Tim
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  Kadoshim. You'll be holy, Kadoshani,
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  because I'm holy, the Lord Tamu, don't make yourself disgusting.
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  I am God who lifted you out from Egypt to be your God, the Tim
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  Kadoshim. I am the God that says the word
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  kadosh a million times, so to speak, but it says the middle.
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  I am the one who lifted you out of the same.
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  We know we just came from the holiday of you'd see I'm with
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  time exiting the time. That's the term.
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  What's the term lifted you out? So the key theme is, is that
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  we're being elevated. The key theme is, is that we're
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  being literally lifted up and being raised, being risen up
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  higher above the ground. And the idea, as she was telling
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  you, is I'm giving you these requirements.
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  Don't eat this and don't eat that.
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  Don't just touch any food because you're an elevated
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  species. You're a special existence.
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  You are above the world. And the greatest mindset that
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  Hashem is telling us when it comes to the laws of kashut and
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  really any law, is that if you think you're like a regular
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  person and you have a hard time keeping kosher, you have a hard
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  time watching what you touch and watching what you look at and
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  watching what you eat and watching where you're around.
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  If you think you're a regular person, then you're in for it.
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  Because now if you're a regular person and you're told irregular
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  laws, unique laws, it's hard to imagine why that's worth it.
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  I'm regular guy and you give me these restrictions.
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  The regular guy next to me can do whatever he wants and I'm the
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  same as him and I can't. No introduction.
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  You are not regular. You are elevated.
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  You will lift it up. When you came out of Egypt,
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  right after the holiday in Pasach, we just talk about
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  exiting the time. Now we go into a concept of
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  being elevated from the time. We were not walked out.
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  We were taken out, so to speak, on the wings of an eagle.
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  The whole idea of the wings of an eagle is him to the fact that
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  you're flying out. You're not regular guy.
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  You're not just underground, you're not a person among people
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  is with different laws. No, you are something that's
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  elevated. You're elevated in the way you
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  act. You're elevating your potential.
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  You're elevating the children that you're going to raise and
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  the future that you're going to have and the minds that you're
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  going to have. You're elevating the person that
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  you're going to become. You're just elevating every way.
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  And because of that, I have to tell you, you have special, you
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  know how certain cars have special fuel, right?
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  Certain planes have different fuel, certain rocket ships have
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  different fuel, all depending on what kind of car they have and
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  where they're going to go. Well, you're a special car.
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  You're a special rocket ship, you're about to shoot to the
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  moon. And because that you need
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  special fuel, and therefore Hashem says be careful with what
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  you eat. That's the theme behind the
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  topic of cashew. It's difficult.
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  It's hard to keep kosher if you're a regular guy.
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  It's not to keep kosher if you're aware of the fact that
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  you're not some little, you know, middle small car that can
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  take any fuel. You're a rocket ship and you're
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  flying to the moon and therefore you need some special stuff.
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  That's the idea. Keep it kosher.
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  Stop with this.