A crowded hotel lobby. Families rushing in. Frustrated voices—“Didn’t Tati pay enough for this?” And then the realization: No matter how much you pay, there are rules. First-come, first-served. That moment became a piercing Elul reminder: No shortcuts, no substitutes—just the instructions. With the Kedushas Levi’s reading of “lo sakim lecha matzeivah” and the Dubno Maggid’s mashal of glittering fakes, this shiur exposes the glittering illusions of the Yetzer Hara and the only strategy that truly secures us for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
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Parshas Shoftim | No Substitutes – Just the Instructions
No matter how much you pay, there are rules. First-come, first-served. That moment became a piercing Elul reminder: No shortcuts, no substitutes—just the instructions.
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