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Short Dvar Torah on Parshas Re'eh: Choosing the Path of Life (BONUS EPISODE) · The Weekly Parsha - With Michoel Brooke

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: One of the classic old American jesters once joked that when you come to the fork in the road, take it.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Well, that's funny.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: It's good laugh.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: It's not exactly practical advice.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Foreign real life.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Normally, you can go right or you can go left.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: You get to choose but you can't have both There's the local and then there's the express.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: You can only go on one path and here we have the ultimate choice at the beginning of Parchastrae between good and evil.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Okala c, I present before you today a blessing and a curse.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: It's that simple.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: And now it's our choice.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: To choose the life that we want to live.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: A life of blessing and goodness or a life filled, but suffering, and of course, is God forbid.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: And while it may seem as we go through SAFER DevAR, I'm like, these are messages that we already know.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: We've internalized and we know this and perhaps we're a lull to sleep during our Shnein Micra.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: But truthfully, when you come to this plaza, you should ask yourself rei, I should see that which Moshe is saying.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: From the word How can you see words?
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  Speaker 1: And furthermore, they're placed down here in front of me Can I touch them?
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: What are these words?
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  Speaker 1: But here, you should be shaken back awake from your slumber to hear.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: That it's not going to be so clear going forward.
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: But when you walk into Erez, you throw Elle, and you march on Canan, things will get very, very confusing.
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: And it'll be hard to remember always what is truthfully blessing and what is truthfully curses.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: So here, right now, re a, you should see it, you should have it so clear, it should be so distinct that it's like being able to visualize it, because with your eyes reacined.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: And lift the nation the same way that we said by he told the laws to Moshe Abeena who then put it out like a set table in front of us all of the Torah, not just once it taught the Mishnah, but over and over again, and in seventy languages for us to be able to perfectly consume and understand the laws here.
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: Know it in all of its glory the clarity that you can either choose good and this is good.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: Toro and mitzvots.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my bum.
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: Keep it up to aim.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: That said, Toro, tree lock.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: That is good.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: And everything else.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: Those that the sins, anything outside.
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  Speaker 1: Vashem's terror or anything morally corrupt, That is bad.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: And if you should say yes.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: We know this.
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: We got this.
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe we have to ask ourselves if we did in fact answer our mother call on the first ring or we still were involved in our television show?
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: Or did we in fact relearn the Gamora hazard again to get it into our bones or we Or were we involved in some other mindless practice?
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: So get it here clear that re a c what is truthfully good like a chulte fun aura set table in front of you and remember this and go through SAFER tomorrow.
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: And in the clarity that we need as we're about to march onto Canan.
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: And as we go through this gaulers in this mid bar, to be able to remember exactly and with total fluidity.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: What is good?
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  Speaker 1: What is a blessing?
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  Speaker 1: And what is bad?
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: And what is the purpose?