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Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Synopsis: Last night (5/8/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began a new and unfamiliar perek. I selected it because it's clearly about David's struggles with his enemies and (unfortunately) that theme continues to be relevant to Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora today. The translation-work was difficult and we didn't get super far into our analysis beyond finding the pivot point and getting the background information from the relevant biographical episode in David's life. Next time (בג"ה) we'll begin by reviewing, then raising a bunch of questions, and - hopefully! - venturing a theory about the main idea. One important thing I forgot to mention in shiur is that, to my mind, there is a major difficulty in the perek which we didn't even comment on. See if you can find it for next time!
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מקורות:
תהלים פרק ז
מצודת ציון/דוד תהלים
א' שמואל פרק כד (Robert Alter)
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Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (4/17/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we concluded our relearning of Tehilim 113 with the commentary of the Abravanel - and boy did he deliver! I think we ended up in a similar place to where the Radak took us last time, but we arrived there through a classically nuanced Abravanelesque reading of the pesukim. With this understanding in hand, we were able to appreciate how this first chapter of Hallel sets the stage for the chapters that follow.
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מקורות:
תהלים פרק קיג
אברבנאל - זבח פסח, פירוש לתהלים פרק קיג
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, "Building a Society of Freedom"
רמב"ן - שמות ו:ב
רד"ק - תהלים קמה:ד
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Length: 58 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (4/3/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we continued our relearning of the first chapter of Hallel. After reviewing our translation, our questions, and our approach - which we developed a bit - we decided to start learning the Abravanel's explanation in his haggadah commentary. We only got through the first three pesukim, but MAN were there a lot of fundamental ideas about praising Hashem! We decided not to rush it, and our plan is to finish his commentary next time (בג"ה).
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מקורות:
תהלים פרק קיג
ר' יוסף אלבו - ספר העיקרים ב:ג
אברבנאל - זבח פסח, פירוש לתהלים פרק קיג
רד"ק - תהלים צב:ה
רמב"ן - שמות ו:ב
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If you would like to sponsor a day's or a week's worth of content, or if you are interested in enlisting my services as a teacher or tutor, you can reach me at rabbischneeweiss at gmail. Thank you to my listeners for listening, thank you to my readers for reading, and thank you to my supporters for supporting my efforts to make Torah ideas available and accessible to everyone.
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"The Mishlei Podcast": mishlei.buzzsprout.com
"Rambam Bekius" Podcast: rambambekius.buzzsprout.com
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