Insights from Toras Reb Levi Yitzchok, a weekly class based on the teachings of Harav Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, chief rabbi of the city of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, during the bloody Bolshevik revolution and the subsequent Communist oppression and father of the Rebbe.
The shiur is presented by Rabbi Dovid Dubov, Director of Chabad of Mercer County in Princeton, New Jersey, and author of Yalkut Levi Yitzchok, an anthology of commentaries collected from the works of Harav Levi Yitzchak, of blessed memory.
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Parshas Vezos Habracha
He Said “The Lord came from Sinai and shone forth from Seir to them; He appeared from Mount Paran and came with some of the holy myriads; from His right hand was a fiery law for them.”
(Bracha 33:2)
Questions:
A) Medresh: “When the L-rd appeared to give Torah to Israel, it is not to Israel alone that He appeared, but to all of the nations. First He went to the children of Esav, and He asked them: Will you accept the Torah? They asked: What is written in it? He answered: “You shall not kill” (Shemoth 20:13). They answered: The entire essence of our father is murder, as it is written (Bereshith 27:22) “And the hands are the hands of Esav.” And it is with this that his father assured him (Ibid. 27:40) “And by your sword shall you live.”
He then went to the children of Yishmoel and asked them: Will you accept the Torah? They asked: What is written in it? He answered “You shall not commit adultery.” They answered…
What’s the connection of Esav with killing, and Yishmoel with Adultery?
B) What’s the meaning of His right hand?
C) What’s the meaning of Fiery law?
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