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.
Organized by Irguntorah.org and aired on community news service COLlive.com.
Parshas שמיני – Rabbi Dovid Dubov – From the Rebbe’s Father Reb Levi Yitzchok זצ״ל
*From the Rebbe’s Father זצ״ל*
Shmini
*THE ENTIRE STORY OF PURIM HINTED IN ONE WORD*
*You shall not eat, anything that crawls on its belly*
(11:42)
The Sages taught in a baraita that the phrase “goes upon the belly” – *גחון* – is referring to the *snake*.
(Talmud Chulin 67B)
Questions
A) Why does the Torah use the word *גחון* , and not *נחש*?
B) Why is the letter ״VOV״ LARGE in the word *גחון*?
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