Defying Gravity, Like Moshe

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September 18 2022
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39min 55s
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Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Machshava:
Rosh Hashana 
Parsha:
Bereishit,  Ki Tisa 

Collections: Breaking the Luchot

References: Berachot: 32A ,  Nidah: 30B  

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Explaining an idea from Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik in his essay שליחות, on the two צלם אלקים missions of a human being - to act, and to introspect - as applied to Moshe's ability to carry the blank luchot up the mountain, but not to carry them down.

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