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2 453 40_Shiur HaRav Soloveichik on Makas Bchoros0_10_jr@sco.com26_Wed, 04 Apr 2001 01:46 EDT627_us-ascii bo.01
Shiur HaRav Soloveichik ZT"L on Makas Bchoros
(Shiur Date: 2/8/75. Tape available from M. Nordlicht: #5218, #5219. Please refer to this Shiur for Parshas Bo as well.)
Yetzias Mitzrayim is more than a story that happened to our people thousands of years ago. It is still as significant and relative today as it was those many years ago. The exodus was the preamble to receiving the Torah at Sinai. One could say that all 613 commandments are rooted in some way to Yetzias Mitzrayim and Kabbalas HaTorah. Often the Torah associates Yetzias Mitzrayim with Mitzvahs, for example Ani Hashem [...]
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Shiur HaRav Soloveichik ZT"L on Sippur Yetzias Mitzrayim
(Shiur date: 1969. This is the second half of the 1969 shiur, delivered in English. The first part is available at: http://shamash.org/tanach/tanach/commentary/mj- ravtorah/haggadah1.99.ravtorah.99)
Afilu Kulanu Chachamim… Haray Zeh Mshubach. The older Hagadah texts omit the word Zkaynim. A later printer added Zkaynim, even the Rambam's Hagadah text was altered to include Zkaynim. The language style of Chachamim, Nvonim, Yodim Es HaTorah is reminiscent of the phrase applied to Betzalel, and I have filled him with Chachma etc. The intellectual process of understanding includes Chochma, Binah and Daas. Chochma is an intuition [...]